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After a three weeks lull in its schedule the University hockey team will resume activities tonight when the Golden Tornado of Marquette University sweeps down on the ice at the Boston Garden to furnish the opposition. The face-off is carded for 8.30 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ICE FORCES BATTLE STRONG MARQUETTE AT ARENA TONIGHT | 2/5/1930 | See Source »

...were swearing themselves amateurs the storm passed and the sun popped out. Attendants hurried to the hockey rink and busily shooed off the snow. Spectators attended to snowflakes that had sifted down their necks. Two hockey teams in snug tights and jerseys warmed up and stood tense for the face-off. The puck was thrown in and the Olympic games of 1928, winter sports section at St. Moritz, Switzerland, comprising skating, skiing, bob-sleighing, hockey, were declared in progress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Snowmen | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

Just four minutes and 25 seconds after Referee Sands had dropped the puck and scurried out of the way at the initial face-off, Willard Howard ocC, sliced through the porous Tech defense, dribbled to the mouth of the cage, and slipped the disk past the first of the two Riley brothers who guarded the sanctuary for Technology during the evening. Before the Engineers could recover, the second forward line, just inserted into the fray, worked the puck down the rink, and W. D. Wetmore '30 took a pass from G. C. Holbrook '30 to skid the puck into...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON HOCKEY SEASON IS OPENED WITH SHUTOUT WIN | 12/10/1927 | See Source »

Milton Academy's undefeated hockey team will face-off against the 1930 outfit at 3 o'clock this afternoon. The game, played on the Milton ice will find the schoolboys the favorites, as the known strength of their playing is great and they have to their credit victories over many strong schoolboy teams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1930 Skaters Take on Milton | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

...University club sextet is composed entirely of former college stars, in its first string lineup, and the entire squad includes but two men who did not play college hockey. The opening face-off will find the Crimson opposed by three former college captains. Owen of Harvard, at center, Everett of Dartmouth at right wing, and Fitzgerald of Boston College at goal. Two other exceptions who will undoubtedly see action are E. M. Beals '25, and Gorden of Boston College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STICKMEN TAKE ON FORMER ICE STARS | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

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