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November 12, 1955
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From Our Tower
(AS seen in The Vancouver Sun) “When I wonder about a hockey player, I wonder first if he’s ‘hungry’. “I mean ‘hungry’ in an athletic sense. A young guy should want to ‘eat up’ competition. If he don’t, he might’s well become a playboy. “Trouble is, too many guys in the Western Hockey League are playboys. They play like it. “They want to live fast and die fast and have a good looking corpse.” This was Norman Robert (Bud) Poile, hockey coach. This was his conversation piece in a back booth as Love’s, where they serve coffee for nothing, but charge 10 cents for the cream. Mr. Poile, himself, was literally hungry, as befits a coach of the prosperous Edmonton Flyers. He, himself, was the picture of a plump ex-athlete who has confronted too many alluring…
Rock ‘N Roll Fontinato Now, He Doesn’t Like Leapin’ Lou
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Like the fellow who went to City Hall to have his name changed from Joe Hoonga-doonga to Tom Hoongadoonga, Leapin’ Louie Fontinato is looking to get his name changed too. The big broth of a boy who is betting New York’s hockey hearts afire with his crashing checks and strong defensive play would rather not have the “Leapin” tag line added on to his name anymore. Fontinato reasons that every time he leaps some mean ole refree throws a misconduct penalty at him. If you please, he would prefer being called “Rock ‘N Roll Louie” from now on. It’s a fitting nom de plume at that. Not only does Louie rock ‘em and roll ‘em on the ice but he was recently the star of the popular “Rock ‘N Roll Party” on radio…
The Stars Pick A Winner!
Wings’ Offensive Punch Limited To Four Forwards
DETROIT, Mich.— When one-half of the forwards on the team are still shooting blanks after 10 games, it isn’t hard to pinpoint why the Detroit Red Wings rest at the bottom of the National Hockey League. For years Detroit has been termed a “one line” team. The offense always was unbalanced as long as scoring stars like Ted Lindsay and Gordie Howe were planted on the same unit. The production Line long has been one of the great scoring combines in hockey. Dutch Reibel centers Howe and Lindsay for normal operations. Alex Delvecchio moves in on the power play, Reibel dropping back to the point. Never in the past, however, was the goal-scoring so unbalanced as it has been this season. Name those four forwards and you virtually blanket the entire offensive punch. At the…