Word: defenseman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years scrappy Eddie Shore, a defenseman of the Boston Bruins, has been the Big Blade of major-league hockey. His savage body-checking cost him all his teeth but brought him a salary of $15,000 a year, drew crowds to hockey games, eight times helped the Bruins climb to top ranking in their division of the league...
...Bruins are tops this season because of: 1) remarkable defense play; 2) the three most spectacular first-year players in the league-Goalie Frankie Brimsek, Defenseman Jack Crawford and Wing Roy Conacher; 3) canny Manager Art Ross; and 4) gnarled, battling Eddie Shore, the Babe Ruth of Hockey, the mightiest Bruin of them...
...scorer for the Funsters was defenseman Jim Gerrity who tallied three times, while Phil Downes and Jim Doughty each scored once. In the fourth game, Daughaday and Hamill each scored once for Leverett, while Gorham and Folsom, a spare, each netted one for the Coasters...
...justice to the Olympics it should be pointed out that they had just returned from a hard game at Providence the night before and also played without the services of Charlie Arra, their star defenseman and Frankie Sullivan, first line center, who was forced out of the game early in the first period...
During the timeouts, the spectators gather about the bleeding players and listen avidly while the latter form their plots as they run their fingers across their skate-blades, testing their sharpness and grinning evilly at the vision of the cleanly vivisected jugular vein of an enemy defenseman. Then the whistle blows again, and the "game" goes on. Nothing ever stops these 20th century executioners except the necessity of removing a corpse which has fallen so as to inconvenience play. If a man is obliterated out in front of the goalie's cage, the game is halted until the gurgling victim...