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July 1, 1964
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Hockey Outlook Seen Bright As Wisconsin Restores Game
MADISON, Wis. — Longer and more attractive schedules, better teams is the forecast for hockey at University of Wisonsin following the game’s restoration in 1963-64 after a 30 year lapse. In spite of injuries to key players over the last half of the season, handicaps that were never overcome, Wisconsin closed with an 8-5-3 record. Ten gamer were against Minnesota institutions: St. Mary’s of Winona: Hamline, Macalester, and St. Thomas of St. Paul; and Carleton of Northfield. Only three out of 16 players will be lost by graduation and their places next winter will be filled from among a group of sophomores and transfers. The game’s gradual growth in the state’s elementary and high schools will in another decade assure Wisconsin of an annual influx of talent. Eventually Wisconsin hopes to meet such Canadian…
NHL To Reward Top Player In Stanley Cup Playoffs With $1,000 Bonus, Trophy
MONTREAL, Que — Unlike past years, the top performer in the 1964-65 Stanley Cup playoffs will be honored with a $1,000 bonus and possession of an award to be designated the Conn Smythe Trophy. This was the outcome of the annual club owners meeting held during the NHL’s summer session here and the move was hailed by all six clubs. The trophy will be donated by the Maple Leaf Gardens. The trophy, which will honor the man who built up the Leafs and the Gardens to its present I day high level, will go to the outstanding player in the playoffs along with the cash award from the NHL. Manner of choosing the winner will be decided later, probably at the league’s semi-annual meeting in Toronto next Oct. 10. Players in the cup semi-finals…
Swedes Expect Their Top Stars To Make NHL
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — It will take another five years before a Swedish player performs in the National Hockey League (that is if Ulf Sterner doesn’t I do it with New York Rangers before that lime). But whether it’s five or 10 years the day of players from this country playing in hockey’s top circuit is a certainty according to most i of the Swedish ice hockey leaders we talked with on our visit to this hockey-mad nation. Over 100,000 players are registered with the Svenska Is hockey Forbundent (Swedish Ice Hockey Association) right now. There are 1,600 teams affiliated with this giant hockey movement which employs a full-time staff of 10 on a year-round basis to administer its developments. Arne Stromberg, coach of Sweden’s National Team and a former outstanding player himself, is…
THEY CALL IT HOCKEY
EDMONTON, Alta. — “Please Sir. Can I play now?” the high-pitched voice pleaded. “Not yet. Were out to win this game.” was the gruff reply. The hockey player, nine years old. screwed-up his face to hold back the tears and squatted on the snowbank shivering. He didn’t understand. The coach let him play a few times at the beginning of the season. And now all the boy did was sit and shiver and hope — maybe next time. That scene was enacted at our community league rink and, I am told, at many others. The only boys who played house-league hockey this winter, were either fairly good players, or they had an exceptional coach, who played all his players — good or bad. But the exceptional, impartial coach was definitely in the minority. It all began…
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