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March 23, 1973
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Bowling Green Captures CCHA Tourney Over St. Louis
BOWLING GREEN— They say all good things come to those who wait and nobody waited more patiently for the Central Collegiate Hockey Association conference championship than Bowling Green Falcons. Coach Jack Vivian’s Falcons became the ‘Cinderella’ champs of the CCHA by defeating the favored St. Louis Billikens in a three-team round-robin tournament after the Bills had steamrolled down the home stretch to annex the regular CCHA title and they did it at the expense of Bowling Green. The Falcons’ frustrations turned to untold joy with two impressive victories in the CCHA tourney as they edged St. Louis 6-5 and then put the resting on the cake by walloping Ohio State 8-1. By sweeping to the title, Vivian’s collegians ended the year with a 16-19 record and payed the way for possibly better things…
Schmautz Flattened After 4-Goal Game
PORTLAND— If the Portland Buckaroos can keep Cliff Schmautz off his son’s bicycle he could loan some scoring power to their stretch drive for a playoff spot. Schmautz was hampered by injuries so much that he contributed just one goal and no assists in a 13-game stretch. Then he snapped out of it with a four-goal game in a 9-3 victory over Seattle Totems. Two days later, attempting to teach his nine-year-old son how to ride a bicycle, the 34-year-old veteran went over the handle bars, landed on his head and wound up in hospital with a concussion. Schmautz had 21 goals in his first 36 games this season and now has 26, tying Art Jones for the club lead. The Bucks, as a team, snapped out of a slump in which they won once…
Hockey Ad Lib
Race Pressures Showing … Race Pressures Showing OUTSIDE THE ST. LOUIS BLUES’ dressing room in L.A.’s suburban Forum after a loss to the Kings, Jean-Guy Talbot bounced up and down the corridor at a terrific clip for a half-hour, willing to talk only to himself—mutterings in French obscenities—refusing to converse with the press for fear of saying something he would regret later. Team owner Sid Salomon III, suffering a more controlled rage, was willing to talk while keeping a close watch to make sure the beefy Talbot did not crash himself against the wall in despair. “Can you blame him?” the youngish, slender Salomon asked. “This is the second time in two weeks we’ve had an important goal taken away from us”. A couple of weeks earlier in Toronto, Fran Huck took a waist-high…
Danny O’Shea Plays Big Role In Blues’ West Division Rise St. Louis
Danny O’Shea appears to be a quite pleasant fellow hut he says he plays hockey better if he is a “little irritable.” “For me to be up for a game I have to be a little irritable,” he says, “and, when we lose, it takes awhile to be nice. “I try not to get too down or too up but remain even,” O’Shea said. “Sometimes when I’m down, I come home to my wife, and I know I’m not the most pleasant person.” O’Shea is about to complete his fifth season in the National Hockey League. He has been with three teams, Minnesota, Chicago and St. Louis Blues. The current season has been a crazy one for O’Shea. He started the season with a bizarre chain of events that left him wondering about…
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