Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since a flying hockey puck travels a good deal faster than the human body, a topflight goalie needs the knack of being in the right place at the right time. It also helps to have perfect balance, knowledge of the tactics of the opponent streaking down-ice toward the net and a thoughtfully padded uniform. In the National Hockey League, the man who seemed to combine the necessary qualities better than anybody else this season was Toronto-born William Ronald ("Big Bill") Durnan, 34-year-old veteran of the Montreal Canadiens...
...high priority schemes was the construction of a hockey rink; and to judge by the difficulty there is in finding vacant ice in winter, it's a happy suggestion...
...practice time with BC, BU, half a dozen high schools and the Boston Bruins, the varsity was able to log but 130 hours of practice time all winter. The freshmen could get even less, and were forced to range as far afield as Lynn and Lowell to locate practice ice...
...after 12:51 of the first period Harvard couldn't score. They couldn't score because of Dick Desmond's goal play, and because insane defensemen like Mike Thayer threw themselves down on the ice every time they saw a shot coming. No team can score with a solid wall of bodies in front of the cage...
Minor injuries were suffered by Bill Yetman, who cracked his head on the ice, and by one of the referees who accidentally bounced his head off the boards...