Word: rinks
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Work began yesterday afternoon on two rinks to be constructed on Soldiers Field inside the Stadium. The larger of the two will be 180 by 90 feet, exactly the width of the Boston Arena; the other will be 180 by 80 feet, the size of the St. Nicholas Rink in New York. As soon as the latter is complete the University team will use it until just before the Princeton game on January 15. After that they will practice on the larger rink in preparation for the Yale game on February 19 in the Boston Arena. The rink...
...entirely for its practice on weather conditions and poor ice was a great hindrance in perfecting team-play for the last few years. This year, however, with the completion of the Boston Arena by the middle of January, an excellent opportunity will be afforded of practicing on an indoor rink. Following the plan of last year, arc-lights are to be placed over the rinks in the Stadium, so that practice may be held in the evening...
Rapid advancement is being made on the new artificial ice rink at the corner of Massachusetts avenue and St. Botolph street, Boston. On October 11 ground was broken and since that time the work has progressed so far that the concrete foundation is now finished and the brick and steel superstructure begun. The building will be finished in time for the hockey game between Princeton and Dartmouth on January...
...this rink, to be known as The Boston Arena, special arrangements have been made to accommodate spectators and players in the intercollegiate hockey games. Seats, arranged in the arena pit form, will provide for about 5,000 spectators. Under the seats 16 locker-rooms with shower baths have been set aside for the players, and the ice surface, 90 by 250 feet, will afford a hockey rink much larger than that in the St. Nicholas Rink in New York...
Besides the hockey rink there will be a small sheet of ice reserved for curling and on special days the whole building will be given over to a private club when pleasure skating only will be permitted...