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September 1, 1967
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Clippers To Open Camp With 16-0wned Players
—BALTIMORE, Md Sixteen Baltimore owned skaters will report to General ManagerCoach Terry Reardon at Her shey, Pa. on Wednesday, September 20th when the Clippers begin pre-season training for the 1967-68 American Hockey League season. For the first time since the Clippers gained a franchise in the AHL six years ago, the training roster will be 100% locally owned. In previous campaigns, the list of candidates has Included some players whose contracts were owned by the New York Rangers with whom the Clippers are no longer working. The sixteen players owned by Baltimore include twelve returnees from last winter’s fine team and four amateurs whose pro rights are filed in Reardon’s brief case. Serving as this year’s nucleus will be centers Willie Marshall and Bob Cunningham; left wingers Jimmy Bartlett, Jean-Marie Cossette, Bob Brinkworth and…
A DRAMATIC HISTORY OF THE HAT1ONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE 1917-1967
This is the dramatic story of the National Hockey League and of ice hockey itself—the grandest team game of them all. With words and pictures it captures the changing face of hockey during the fifty years since the N.H.L. was launched, with full mention of the great men of hockey and the great games played. It also adds a complete treasury of N.H.L. and Stanley Cup records and statistics. At birth, on a chilly November day in 1917, the National Hockey League was a puny thing, an unlikely prospect to thrive and prosper and mature into the sporting giant it is today. Conceived during the fury of the First World War and product of a broken marriage between quarreling members of an earlier league, the N.H.L. soon caught the fancy of…
Sullivan Plans To Mold Aggressive Hockey Club With New NHL Penguins
—PITTSBURGH, Pa. When George “Red” Sullivan was roaming the National Hockey League ice rinks as a New York Ranger he was the type of player who gave no quarter and asked even less. There’s little doubt that he has fashioned the new Pittsburgh Penquins in his own image. Of all the six new NHL expansion clubs heading into their initial pre-season training, none reflects the personnality of the coach as does the Pittsburgh entry. Some of the players, such as Andy Bathgate and Al MacNeil are old teammates of Sullivan from New York. Others, such as Ab McDonald and Bob Dillabough are hockey veterans Red has watched for years. But just about all of the 36 players who will open training at Brantford. Ontario, September 13th have one thing in common—they are aggressive. “I’ve got a…
Apollos Nome Routzong New General Manager
—HOUSTON, Tex. Art Routzong, the director of stadium operations at the Astrodrome. has been named general manager of the Houston Apollos hockey team, it was announced by Roy Hofheinz. president of the Houston Sports Association, the new owners of the Apollos. Routzong. 55. has held many top executive positions with sports teams throughout the country including business manager of the St. Louis Cardinals baseball club and general manager of the Houston Buffs. He will continue with his duties of director of stadium operations at the Astrodome, and will assume his added duties Immediately.…
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