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Originally a saltwater dweller, the sea lamprey moved up the fresh water of the St. Lawrence and into Lake Ontario to spawn, then developed a fresh-water species. The building of Canada's Welland Canal provided a detour around the natural barrier of Niagara Falls, and in the past 20 years the pests have begun to thrive in Lake Huron, Lake Michigan and, more recently, in Lake Superior. Multiplying enormously, with each female averaging 61,500 eggs, and feeding greedily, with each maturing lamprey devouring up to 40 pounds of fish, they have already wiped...
...faculty committee on athletics had already approved the Tourney invitation and Crimson coach Cooney Welland accepted for his team at the regular Thursday Hockey Writers' Luncheon. He told the newsmen that the sextet would "give a good account of itself out West...
...Crimson line-ups characterized coach Cooney Welland's emphasis on defense, as Doug Manchester only twice left his blue-line post and the forward line power was continually shifted to assure balance...
...Crimson coach disagreed that the presence of Canadian players on American teams was grounds for discontinuing the tournament. "How can we hope to dominate some country that's made hockey their national game like baseball's ours?" Welland said...
...Welland was referring to Jeremiah's suggestion for establishing a national rating board which would pick the champion American sextet on the basis of its season's record...