Word: sextet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...junior varsity hockey team routed a hard-hitting but outclassed Arlington High sextet at Watson Rink yesterday, 11 to 1. It was the season's opener for both teams...
...other sports are not so popular. When the hockey leagues are organized on December 18, not such a large turnout is expected. Some of the dorms will probably have to combine forces to be able to put a sextet on the ice for every game. Similar situations will arise with some of the other sports as well...
...Coach Weiland can produce the necessary playmakers from this list of hockey talent, then certainly no expectations are too high for the varsity. Even without standouts like Bill Cleary and goalie Charlie Flynn, the sextet could match up to the Crimson's best--the 1954 Eastern champions who were invited to the National Tourney at Colorado Springs...
Then, too, Weiland must solve a difficult defense problem. The varsity has no full-time defensemen left over from last year's team and only a few who played on the Yardling sextet. Probably the greatest blow to the team's chances is the fact that Dan Ullyot, a first-rate defenseman on the '55 team, may not be able to play at all. Ullyot has an ear injury and cannot possibly play at least until February...
...most critical problems on the team concerns the goal-tending position. Filling that spot is the sextet's captain, Jim Bailey, who has just about everything a goalie should have except experience. Bailey has sat on the varsity bench for the last two years watching All-American Charlie Flynn in the goal...