Word: hockey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...varsity hockey team scored three consecutive goals in the last ten minutes of play at the Arena last night and upset highly regarded Boston University, 7 to 6. It was a superb exhibition of team play...
...want an all-over picture of sports versus television, Boston would serve well. This year the fans can no longer watch Arena wresling, Boston College football, or Boston Celtics basketball, but they could still follow Harvard football, Boston Bruins hockey, and, biggest of all, baseball...
...Such hockey officials as New York's John Reed Kirkpatrick and baseball men as Philadelphia's Connie Mack aren't at all worried about television--in fact the think TV is giving sports many new friends. Magazine surveys of both these sports have shown that fans still prefer to see the teams perform in the flesh, because hockey and baseball television is a far cry from the closeup coverage of boxing, wrestling, and football...
While the future of hockey and baseball television seems fairly well assured, it will be interesting to watch developments in boxing and football, for if there's much more curtailment in these fields, the setowners are bound to raise a howl...
...Roller Derby is a watered down potpourri of several sports. It combines the speed of racing, the jamming of a six-day bicycle race, the blocking of football, the checking of hockey, and the team-play of basketball. It is played on an oval, highly-banked maconite track, 16 laps to a mile, by two teams of five players each. Each club has two teams--one of men, one of women--which race for alternate 15-minute periods. Two halves of four 15-minute periods each constitute a night's competition...