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After the evolution of ordinary street hockey, the inevitable introduction of plain speed racing, and a dubious form of amusement in which the participants dance while on roller skates, there didn't seem to be much left for people to do on wheels. All this failed to daunt one Lee A. Seltzer, an athletic-minded Chicagoan who figured that the millions of Americans who roller skate and the millions of Americans who wrestle ought to be thrown together in one merry mob. The Roller Derby originated in Chicago...
...varsity hockey team faces Princeton at the Arena tonight and is favored to skate off with a clean sweep of the season's two-game series. Face-off time...
...DiBlasio, surprise left wing of the third line, took a pass on his skate, kicked to his stick and slapped the puck through Burns' legs to make it 2-0, Harvard...
Lily-White Lynn. Young Patrick learned to skate in British Columbia. But from the time he was five years old his mother was dead set against his choosing hockey as a career. Says Lynn: "Mother didn't want to see her lily-white boy mixed up with those rough characters."† Instead, he was sent to the University of British Columbia to study dentistry. When he flunked out a year later, his father reluctantly agreed to let him play hockey: "I think he thought I'd be lousy and get it out of my system." Lynn practiced eight...
Boston University is a good American college hockey team. It is typical of the squads that will face the Crimson this winter. But BU has nobody who can make the Bruins and nobody who can skate like Buddy O'Connor or check like Jack Crawford. Nor do they have any budding Bruins, or even Olympic stars, for that matter...