Dick Duff’s ‘Quick’ Goals One Of Two New Stanley Cup Playoff Records Set

MONTREAL, Que— When Dickie Duff of the Toronto Leafs flashed a pair of lightning goals past Goalie Terry Sawchuk of Detroit 19 seconds apart at the ouset of the first game of this year’s Stanley Cup finals, most hockey observers believed it was a record. As it turned out the feat was a new NHL mark but not as most suspected for the fastest two goals ever scored in a playoff game—that mark belonged to Pit Lepine and Bernie Geoffrion—but Duff’s effort did do into the record books as the two quickest ever fired at the start of a game. Lepine pumped two goals past Goalie Chuck Gardiner of Chicago in the 1930-31 final 12 seconds apart and later Geoffrion came along to equal the feat in 1954-55 when he beat Terry Sawchuk…

’Foreign Ice’ Victories Aid Fort Wayne In Championship Win Over Minneapolis

Bjorkman Named Coach By Rensselaer Institute

TROY, N.Y.— The appointment of Ruben E. Bjorkman, captain of the United States world hockey team in 1955, as assistant professor of physical education and head ice hockey coach at Rensselaer Institute was announced by Henry W. Kumpf, Jr., chairman of the department of physical education and director of athletics. Bjorkman, at 34, will succeed Ned Harkness who resigned to accept the Cornell University hockey coaching post.…

Johnson To Coach Colorado College

COLORADO SPRINGS. Col.— Robert N. Johnson, coach of the conference-winning hockey team at Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis for six years, has been named hockey coach at Colorado College. Announcement of the appointment came from Dr. Louis T. Benezet, president of the college, who said “Bob Johnson embodies in the best way that we have seen among the candidates the qualities we have been seeking for the Colorado College athletic program.” Johnson, 32, will assume his new duties at the independent liberal arts college here in August. A native of the Minnesota hockey country, Johnson was a forward on the University of Minnesota hockey team for two years. He previously played hockey at the University of North Dakota. He holds bachelor of science and master of arts degree from the University of Minnesota. During his six…