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August 1, 1967
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Philly Flyers To Make In Exhibition Against
PHILADELPHIA, Pa— Philadelphia area hockey fans will get their first look at the Flyers when the new National Hockey League team takes on the Pittsburgh Penguins in a pre-season game at the $12 million Spectrum on October 2. This was announced by Flyers manager Bud Poile who released a 10-game pre-season schedule which slates five games against NHL teams and five against minor league opposition in the American Hockey League. The Flyers-Penguins game will mark the debut of Philadelphia’s new NHL franchise at The Spectrum, home of the Flyers for 37 regular season games beginning in mid-October. The game will be played for the benefit of the Multiple Sclerosis Society which has pledged to sell out the 15,000 seat Spectrum for the charity affair. The Flyers open the pre-season schedule at their training camp in…
Hewitson Joins Seals’ Staff As Manager Of Box Office
OAKLAND, Calif.— Bob Hewitson, one of the top box office managers in the business, has joined the administrative staff of the California Seals. Hewitson, 34, former box office manager of Toronto’s internationally know O’Keefe Center for the Performing Arts, and executive of the Maple Leaf Gardens and Toronto Maple Leaf baseball club, was to start work on Aug. 1. As box office manager for the Seals, Hewitson will be responsible for the Seals’ ticket interests in the 13,000-seat glasswalled Coliseum Arena. “Talent like this is extremely hard to find,” says Seal publicist Tim Ryan, “and we feel very fortunate to have him joining our staff.” Ryan explained that such a position, filled with an experienced administrator, is “vital” to the success of a new operation. “This kind of thing has to be handled properly because you…
Expansion Teams Ask Schedule Maker To Lessen Early Games With Old Clubs
MONTREAL, Que.— The start of the hockey season is a long way off for most of us, but Brian O’Neil already knows where and when every game will be played. O’Neil, the NHL Administrator who has the annual task of drawing up the league schedule, has been working on the 196768 setup since back around last May. He had to make four separate attempts before he got the approval of the general managers of the 12 teams in the expanded league, but finally secured it on Schedule ‘D’. He is now awaiting the approval of the various team owners. The 1967-68 schedule will consist of 74 games, as compared to the 70-game setup of preexpansion days. It will involve four interlocking games between each team in the old and new divisions. Two such…
Wilson New Voice Of Bruins
BOSTON, Mass.— The selection of WHDH-Radio’s Bob Wilson as radio “voice” of the Boston Bruins for the 1967-68 season was announced jointly by George E. Akerson, president, WHDH, Inc., and Weston Adams, president of the Boston entry in the National Hockey League. WHDH Radio will broadcast all 74 Bruins’ games, both home and away, during the season which opens Oct. 11. Wilson has been a member of the WHDH staff since the summer of 1962 when he joined the station as a vacation replacement announcer. He became a full time announcer in the fall of that year and has been “color” man on WHDH broadcasts of Bruins’ games since the 1964-65 season. A native of Stoneham, Mass., and a veteran of three years’ service with the U. S. Air Force, Bob attended Boston…
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