Word: tryout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Danny Bolduc, former Harvard and Olympic hockey team member, will be wearing a different uniform tonight as he takes the ice in the first of a ten game amateur tryout with the New England Whalers of the World Hockey Association...
...speedster impresses the management with his tryout he will be given a regular contract, making him ineligible to play his final year of varsity hockey at Harvard. However, he does plan "one way or another" to complete his final year of college, which he left to play on the Olympic team...
Bolduc's dealings with professional hockey teams go back to his freshmen year at Harvard. He has been on the negotiating list of both the Whalers and the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League. The Kings also offered him the same ten game amateur tryout, but he chose...
Bolduc seems to think there's still room for improvement, and his parents agree. Both his mother and father see the tryout as "a fantastic opportunity. It's been an exciting year for Danny. I have no doubt he can make it," the elder Bolduc said...
Shaw is a good enough football player to have been offered a tryout by a professional team in the Canadian Football League after he graduates next month. But he still says he likes the low-key atmosphere around athletics here and he has never regretted not having gone to a "big-time" sports school...