Word: krefeld
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Krefeld. Germany, the Penticton Vs (TIME, March 7) beat Russia's amateur hockey champions, 5-0, and took the world title back to Canada...
Last week, as the tournament got under way in Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Krefeld and Cologne, the Vs had more than the Russians between them and the championship. Finland, Poland, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia and the U.S. had also entered teams. Each of them had 36 games to go, but the Canadians began by making it look easy. In Dortmund's Westphalenhalle Arena they trounced the U.S., 12-1. Outside, in the cold German winter, a red-bereted corporal of the Canadian occupation army blasted on a bugle while his buddies jeered: "Yankees go home, and learn to play...