Researching the history and future of ice hockey in Huntington, WV, and the surrounding area
28 November 2008
Thanks Mike!
Got your DVD of Blizzard-Admirals Game 3.
In related news, I might have some YouTube goodies from the WABAC machine soon (Inserting another friendly solicitation for video materials from you crazy kids out there...)...
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Hello, I couldn't find an e-mail for you on your site. I remembered running across it this summer while researching The Eastern Hockey League for my site http://TheEHL.com I just found this article in the October 07, 1956 Beckley Post-Herald and Register (p.16)... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hockey Back In Huntington After 15 Year Absence HUNTINGTON, Oct. 5 (AP) - League hockey returns to Huntington next Saturday after a I5-year abssence. "Things are looking up" for the Huntington Hornets, newest entry in the International Hockey League, said their business manager, Robert A. McDonald, Coach Eddie Olson, a player for 10 years in the Amerlcan Hockey League, brings his team to town Tuesday after a two-week practice session at Brampton, Ont. A parade is scheduled, for the 35-man team before the players dress up for photographers Tuesday afternoon. The Hornets will be on display at at a free instruction clinic Wednesday. Fort Wayne will be the opening opponent on the 6O-game schedule, half of—which will be played at Huntington's Memorial Field House. Other league members are Cincinnati; Indianapolis; Troy, Ohio; and Toledo, Ohio. Huntington hasn't hsd a league hockey team since the Huntington Stars folded before the 1942 season began. One reason was that fire destroyed the Arena Gardens. Another was that World War II took most of the players. Only, four exhibition games have been played here since. One of those contests saw Troy win the North American Championship to become eligible for the Olympics. . . . The old Huntington Stars fared well their three years in the Tri- State League, which i n c l u d e d Charleston, Youngstown, Akron, Toledo and Windsor, Canada. .Huntington placed second behind Akron in 1939 and 1940 and won the league title and playoff its final year. Olson, the player-coach, brings to Ihe Hornets Gordon Christian, 22, of Warroad, Minn., a former Olympics hockey player. Olson has termed "outstanding" such players as center Paul Johnson, 190-pounder from St. Paul; and defensemcn Bob Wilson 22, also 190 pounds, from Toronto, Ont., and John Ticola, 22-year-old 200-pounder from Timmins, Ont. Under International L e a g u e rules, only l4 players are allowed in uniform for each game. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - If you'd like more articles like this as I run across them, please contact me through http://TheEHL.com . Thanks for helping keep hockey history alive! Sincerely, Tom T. - TheEHL.com
1 comment:
Hello, I couldn't find an e-mail for you on your site. I remembered running across it this summer while researching The Eastern Hockey League for my site http://TheEHL.com
I just found this article in the October 07, 1956 Beckley Post-Herald and Register (p.16)...
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Hockey Back In Huntington After 15 Year Absence
HUNTINGTON, Oct. 5 (AP) - League hockey returns to Huntington next Saturday after a I5-year abssence.
"Things are looking up" for the
Huntington Hornets, newest entry
in the International Hockey League,
said their business manager,
Robert A. McDonald,
Coach Eddie Olson, a player for 10 years in the Amerlcan Hockey League, brings his team to town
Tuesday after a two-week practice session at Brampton, Ont.
A parade is scheduled, for the 35-man team before the players
dress up for photographers Tuesday
afternoon. The Hornets will
be on display at at a free instruction clinic Wednesday.
Fort Wayne will be the opening
opponent on the 6O-game schedule,
half of—which will be played at
Huntington's Memorial Field
House. Other league members are
Cincinnati; Indianapolis; Troy,
Ohio; and Toledo, Ohio.
Huntington hasn't hsd a league
hockey team since the Huntington
Stars folded before the 1942 season began. One reason was that fire destroyed the Arena Gardens. Another was that World War II took most of the players.
Only, four exhibition games have been played here since. One of those contests saw Troy win the North American Championship to become eligible for the Olympics.
. . .
The old Huntington Stars fared
well their three years in the Tri-
State League, which i n c l u d e d
Charleston, Youngstown, Akron,
Toledo and Windsor, Canada.
.Huntington placed second behind
Akron in 1939 and 1940 and
won the league title and playoff
its final year.
Olson, the player-coach, brings
to Ihe Hornets Gordon Christian, 22, of Warroad, Minn., a former Olympics hockey player.
Olson has termed "outstanding"
such players as center Paul Johnson, 190-pounder from St.
Paul; and defensemcn Bob Wilson
22, also 190 pounds, from Toronto,
Ont., and John Ticola, 22-year-old
200-pounder from Timmins, Ont.
Under International L e a g u e
rules, only l4 players are allowed
in uniform for each game.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
If you'd like more articles like this as I run across them, please contact me through http://TheEHL.com .
Thanks for helping keep hockey history alive!
Sincerely,
Tom T. - TheEHL.com
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