Word: ices
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Canadians used to own the modern game of ice hockey. They developed it in the late 19th century after they got tired of a British sport called bandy.* They could usually be counted on to turn out the best amateur team in the world. Then last year, Toronto's Lyndhursts went to Stockholm and embarrassed all of Canada: they lost the international championship to the Moscow Dynamos, a bunch of hard-skating sportsmen from the MVD, Russia's security police...
...reached into the Far West and picked British Columbia's Penticton Vs to take a crack at regaining the championship. Canadians decided that the title was all but home. In the four years since they were organized, the Vs had developed into one of the slickest teams on ice...
...Penticton players and slashed with their skates, an unforgivable sin in the West. The Czech referees' whistles were remarkably silent. After the Vs had tied one game, 3-3, and won the next, 6-0, Penticton's player-coach, Grant Warwick, had to skate around the ice blowing kisses to calm the crowd...
...haphazard form of hockey that was played on the English fens after late fall rains had frozen into thin sheets of ice...
From the Crimson point of view, however, center Bill Cleary may choose tonight to break the NCAA scoring record of 85 points; he is five below the mark this morning. The contest is also significant as the last performance on Eastern ice for five regulars, Captain Scott Cooledge, Ned Almy, Ned Bliss, Frank Mahoney, and Doug Manchester...