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December 21, 1973
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Streaking Gophers Halt Billikens’ Run; Michigan Tech, Colorado Steam Along
SOUTH BEND — There are still three good streaks going in the West but one that had Western Collegiate Hockey Association coaches worried finally came to an end. Michigan Tech. Colorado College and Minnesota stretched their winning streaks to six. but St. Louis an independent, had its stopped by the Gophers in Minneapolis. The Billikens. who are playing for much more than the three team Central Collegiate Hockey Assn, championship this year, looked unbeatable the first month of the season, beating young North Dakota twice on that WCHA team’s own ice and adding St. Scholastica, St. Lawrence and Brown to its list of victims for seven in a row. But St. Louis’ toughest test came at Minnesota, and the Gophers extended their own streak at the Billikens’ expense, 3-2 and 7-5. “We treat this series…
Martynuik Big Reason Owls On Rise
COLUMBUS— Don Scott, general manager of the Columbus Owls, isn’t accepting telephone calls from west of Des Moines. He especially doesn’t want to hear from Salt Lake City or Oakland, home base of the California Golden Seals. Scott will do almost anything to hang onto Ray Martynuik his 23-year-old goalie, who has been a key man in the Owls’ rise from doormat to contender in the South Division of the International Hockey League. “He was the guy we wanted to play goal so you can imagine our joy when California called and said he was available,” Scott said. INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE Martynuik is in his third season at Columbus which was a Golden Seals’ farm club for two years. When ownership switched to Al Savill. Sr., and associates, it was assumed that Martynuik would be…
HOCKEY … For Minors
A Good Leg Exercise Your legs need constant exercise to strengthen them Bad legs end more promising careers than any other part of an athlete’s body. Here’s an exercise you and your teammates can take. Have a teammate hold a stick across his body and you grasp it. too. While he digs in to resist you. push with all the strength of your legs. Learn breath control at the same time. Weal! tend to stop breathing when we concentrate on an extra hard push or pull All we do is shut oil the supply of oxygen to our blood stream. Learn to breathe evenly all the time instead of holding it at times of maximum effort.…
Princeton Turns Up As Early Surprise
BOSTON — Dodo birds are now officially more numerous than Eastern College Hockey coaches who don’t think that their team will be among the eight playoff finalists once the sixteen-team ECAC Division One winds up operations in March. The first full week of competition brought the pre-season havenots right up beyond some of the heavyweights in the for-real standings. however early it might be. Masticate oh this: Princeton 4, St. Lawrence 3: Princeton 4 at Brown 2; Dartmouth 3. Boston University 2; RPI 9 Clarkson 3. Yes, perhaps it’s still too early to think of possible playoff ramifications, but one really can’t help it. Princeton has to rate as the biggest surprise, winning their first two games under new coach Jack Semler. St. Lawrence descended upon Nassau with five games’ experience whettint their Cantonese…
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