Word: rinks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...short stick rounded at one end and a hard rubber ball, together with the necessary ice, were all the implements for the first games of "ice polo", as the sport was known in Cambridge in 1896. There were no limits to the rink and so no player could be off side, and the games-generally developed into cross-country chases in which the man with the best wind kept ahead of his foe and scored goals...
...hockey season was ushered in yesterday afternoon when 60 candidates reported at the Madison Square Garden rink for the first practice under Coach Joseph Stubbs '20. Included in the squad which is larger than in preceding years were the veterans of the 1927-28 season, headed by Captain John Tudor...
...convenience in practice the squad has been arbitrarily divided into two groups. Squad A took the rink first today and spent the allotted time in practising a one man defense against a two-man attack. Then Coach Stubbs had the men line up, race, and reverse at the whistle. Squad B later repeated the same methods...
Official practice will begin a week from today in the new Madison Square Garden Rink. All this week will be spent in running and limbering up exercises on Soldiers Field. The opening game is scheduled for December 12 against...
Twelve thousand people sat around the rink as the players skated out for the deciding game. Big French-Canadians from the east side of Montreal (the French side) were there to cheer the Rangers, disliking the Maroons for beating the Canadians. And in a furious game in which, when the referee disallowed a Montreal goal, the crowd threw overcoats, hats, papers, garbage, and bottles on the ice-in which Miller whirled his arms and legs like the sails of a mill, threw himself backward and forward, stopped every shot except one-a game in which 21 penalties were given, Frank...