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October 27, 1978
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Little Rated Billings Looms Big To Top Division With Rookie Crop
BILLINGS— Just like last year, no one is paying real close attention to Billings Bighorns. No one expected much of the newly-placed Calgary Centennials when they moved to Montana during the summer of 1977. Especially after a pair of rookies, Dave King and Bob Strumm, were named as coach and general manager respectively. But, to make the success story short and sweet, the Bighorns went all the way to the Western Hockey League final last year, losing in a four-game sweep to the eventual Memorial Cup champion New Westminster Bruins. It was an embarrassing defeat, but taking the entire season into perspective, it was a smashing success. Once again, the Bighorns could be one of the three round-robin finalists. Not because they’re especially strong, but because they appear to be the best of a bad…
HOCKEY CROSSWORD
ACROSS 1. One of the Blues. 6. A North Star toward. 7. A U.S. State, (init) 8. Bobby Orr was bom in this month. 11. Adjective. 12. Veteran Red Wing forward. 15. Junior, (abbr.) 16. U.S. Press service, (abbr.) 17. Defunct pro league, (init) 18. Initials of an NHL coach. 19. Former pro Labine answers to this. 20. One of the Rangers, (init) 21. Islanders’ forward answers to this. 23. World heavyweight boxing champ. 25. Yard, (abbr) 26. Maloney answers to this. 28. National, (abbr.) 31. Former Islander Captain. DOWN 1. Pictured goaler. 2. An Edmonton defenseman. (init) 3. Ex-goaltender Sawchuk answers to this. 4. One of the Flames, (first name) 5. 25th and 14th letters of the alphabet. 9. Chicago goaltender answers to this. 10. Former Montreal defense star. 13. A Leaf defenseman answers to this. 14. One of the Bruins, (init) 18. Every team likes to do this. 19.12th and 15th letters of the alphabet. 21. Howe, Lindsay…
Hockey Men Claim He’ll Be Next Super Star
INDIANAPOLIS—Twenty-two years ago a precocious basketball player from Crispus Attucks High School in Indianapolis who could pass as if by magic, started making waves nationally by leading his team to the state championship. Crispus Attucks became the first team in Indiana high school basketball history to win the state title with a perfect record. Oscar Robertson, the passing wizard of that historic squad, went on to become an All American at the University of Cincinnati, helped lead the U.S. to a gold medal in the 1960 Olympic Games and capped a brilliant pro career by guiding the Milwaukee Bucks to an NBA crown | in 1973. Now a precocious hockey player who already is being likened to Robertson for his athletic prowess has come to Indianapolis to play with the Racers in the…
Weir’s Severed Finger Heads List Of Casualties in Oiler-Jet Match
EDMONTON— A hard-fought exhibition game between Edmonton Oilers and Winnipeg Jets, the last of the pre-season schedule for both World Hockey Association teams, ended in a 4-4 tie that put a heavy cloud over the immediate future of the Oilers. As the two clubs blazed to the finish of the tie, standout Oiler center Stan Weir trudged to the dressing room for inspection of a sore little finger on his left hand. Not until after the wound had been thoroughly studied did Weir and Oiler officials realize the severity of the injury—the tip of his finger had been lopped off in a skirmish near the Winnipeg net. Weir said he had been slashed by a Winnipeg defender, whose lumber caught him where the digit overlapped his own stick. Forcing the padding of his…
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