Old Print Article Thread

[Michael Farkas]

I'm surprised that there hasn't been a thread devoted to this yet (at least not one that I've seen). Being that I have access to more "vintage" print than the average person (I think?) I'd like to take this opportunity to give back to the board that I continue to learn so much from...

Basically, if you have scans/pictures/images of older books, newspapers, magazines, etc. that could possibly help in the research of the history of our great game then please feel free to post it here...especially welcomed (I would assume) are things that include historic scouting reports, reasons/rumors for/about trades/transactions, historical formation of the game and its rules and the like...

I'll try to do this as organized as possible...

Once upon a time, I had a few pieces in this thread: http://hfboards.com/showthread.php?t=792759

In there, you've got a Sports Illustrated article from 1956 regarding Jean Beliveau and the Montreal Canadiens, coverage of the 1939 Stanley Cup Finals and some other goodies, IIRC...

I'm just going to go in the order in which I scanned and try to organize second...

Click to read more...

 

[Michael Farkas]

Start off with a favorite, Bobby Orr tidbits...maybe old news, but it's a good start I feel... from the book "Remembering Bobby Orr" by Craig MacInnis 1999 pgs 81-83, 87-88. References to historic defensemen and their best-known traits: the bodychecking of Black Jack Stewart and Bob Baun, the mean streak of Denis Potvin, Sprague Cleghorn, and Eddie Shore, and "superior in the tactics of pure defensive hockey" of Jimmy Thomson, Bob Goldham, Hap Day and Lionel Hitchman. Plus Scotty Bowman's stamp of approval for Orr's defensive game. About Doug Harvey controlling the pace of the game, bringing it to a standstill.











Went with thumbnails for bandwidth sake of HFBoards, I presume that Buffaloed and crew would appreciate not having the full size pictures here, I have to believe...

 

[Michael Farkas]

The Sporting News "North Stars, Blues Dominate NHL's Western All-Stars" by Ben Henkey - April 20, 1968 - Talks about the price expansion clubs had to pay per player they selected in the expansion draft. Also, tidbits regarding some of the first all-stars on the other side of the expansion era.





The Sporting News "Hot Action for Policemen In Stanley Cup Struggles" by Leo Monahan - April 20, 1968 - talks about enforcers "policemen" of the era...John Ferguson, Reggie Fleming, Gordie Howe "roughest of all"... it all finishes the article above re: Western Division All-Stars in the bottom-right corner.

 

[Michael Farkas]

Sport magazine "Sportalk" February 1947 begins (unseen) "Johnny Mariucci, ace defenseman of the Chicago Black Hawks, was talking to Bruce Jacobs, an Associate Editor of SPORT. "You know," said Johnny,..." [scan follows]

Sorry, magic wand scanner wasn't cooperating with a bit of a water damaged magazine page. Readable, but just barely. It talks about the 3 American players in the NHL in 1947. Two are from Eveleth, Minnesota (Frank Brimsek and Johnny Mariucci) and the third is Bill Moe (Massachusetts). Jokes (?) that Brimsek, when confronted, says he's from Regina. Talks about USHL product Anton Nemanick being the next Brimsek.



Sport magazine "Bentley Brothers of the Black Hawks" by Tom Siler - February 1947

Great feature on the Bentley brothers (Max and Doug) and their exploits. Very funny part towards the end regarding Max Bentley being a hypochondriac (sp?).

 

[Michael Farkas]

Goal magazine (Feb. 1978) "Surplus of Goalies a Valuable Commodity" from The Hockey News by Norman MacLean - discusses the Rangers crowded crease in the late 1970's with some tidbits that could piece together barebones scouting reports perhaps...John Davidson, Wayne Thomas, Doug Soetaert, Hardy Astrom, Lindsay Middlebrook. References when Frank Boucher used to change goalies with his line for a stretch in 1946 (Chuck Rayner and Sugar Jim Henry).

 

[Michael Farkas]

Goal magazine (Feb. 1978) "Maloney Stands Tall on Ranger Backline" from New York Post by Hugh Delano - talks about Dave Maloney and how Bobby Orr found him at a summer hockey camp in ~1971 and how he predicted great things for him. Nice feature on Maloney's career to date.

 

[Michael Farkas]

Goal magazine (Feb. 1978) "Don't Drink the Water" (I think) from Chicago Tribune by Bob Verdi - talks about Bob Pulford's coaching







Goal magazine (Feb. 1978) "A Winner Never Quits" from Montreal Star by Red Fisher - featurette on Dickie Moore and the day he wanted to quit hockey mid-slump in December 1962 (?).

 

[Michael Farkas]

Goal magazine (Feb. 1978) "Pat Hickey: He Comes at You From All Directions" from The Newark Star Ledger by Walt MacPeek - I scanned this only because of the recent (June 2011) re-discussion of ice time for players before ice time was an official stat. This article makes a couple of references to it and Hickey's goals per minute ratio. You can probably piece together his game through the article as well, as he may have been a forgotten of the 70's and 80's...

 

[Michael Farkas]

Sport magazine (February 1952) "The Rocket of Montreal" by Vince Lunny - feature on Maurice Richard and his temperment and drive.







The files were too big to be thumbnailed, I forgot to scale these down before uploading...they are there when you click though, don't be discouraged.

 

[Michael Farkas]

Sport magazine (October 1973) "T-K-A-C-Z-U-K Spells Trouble" by Jeff Greenfield - talks about Walter Tkaczuk and his style, skills and his great importance to the Rangers.









The files were too big to be thumbnailed, I forgot to scale these down before uploading...they are there when you click though, don't be discouraged.

 

[Michael Farkas]

Sport magazine (January 1982) "Cure for the Blues" by David Murray - talks about Mike Liut who "has saved the Blues franchise, both on the ice and off"

 

[Michael Farkas]

Sport magazine (February 1962) "Doug Harvey, Player-Coach" - Obviously, talks about Harvey's move from Montreal to New York to try his hand as a player-coach.

 

[Michael Farkas]

Sport magazine (March 1961) "Hockey's Last Richard" by Larry Klein. Discusses Maurice Richard's retirement and Henri Richard's impending emergence. Maurice is referred to as the best player of all-time, Henri is referenced to be the fastest player of all-time. Quality article that discusses many things and gives good talent tidbits for both Richards (not that they'll be too shocking of news for here)...gives an interesting comparison between each player's first five years in the league that doesn't sound too unlike a discussion you'd see here...









Sport magazine (March 1961) "Sportalk: Bower Improves With Age" - just a little piece about Johnny Bower and his late start and how he was reportedly ready for retirement in 1961 (instead, he plays the rest of the decade as we know).

 

[Michael Farkas]

Sport magazine (January 1954) "The Rangers' Mr. Bones" by Arch Murray - nice feature on Rangers center Don "Bones" Raleigh. Great information on him, not sure how much is remembered or known about him on this board considering his relatively brief career that spanned the mid/late 40's to the mid 50's and the fact he wasn't a superstar by any means. Might help an ATD perhaps...?

 

[Michael Farkas]

Sport magazine (1962) "Who's Best in Sports '62" issue with just some excerpts of stars that I pulled out...Howe I yanked because of Sid Abel's quote about maybe moving him to center then defense (!). Plante is referenced as being the first help out from outside the crease, interestingly, he is credited with 5 career assists at the time of print (1962) but according to hockey-reference he only has 1 at this point in his career. Andy Bathgate talks about quitting the league because of the lack of enforcement of penalties, players are going to get killed from boarding and spearing incidents. Was set on quitting and playing professional golf.

 

[Michael Farkas]

Iowa Legionaire newspaper (February 22, 1929) "Ice Hockey Enables Post to Put Over Big Projects" - just a little local article regarding local hockey. Outlines the general concept of hockey early on and its origins ("Ice-hockey is an old game, originally played by the Indians in Canada").

 

[Habsfan18]

In this thread I took pictures of some old THN Draft Previews, for anyone interested:

http://hfboards.com/showthread.php?t=516093

 

[Canadiens1958]

Bandwith.

Some discipline by topic and / or indexing with limits on bandwith would help as well as guidance about posting articles in other languages - accepting French newspapers could really help.

A few other considerations should be addressed. Probably best done via a group or PM format.

 

[Habsfan18]

Being that I have access to more "vintage" print than the average person (I think?)

Post your collection in this thread:

http://hfboards.com/showthread.php?t=847143

It'd be interesting to see what you have.

 

[Michael Farkas]

Post your collection in this thread:

http://hfboards.com/showthread.php?t=847143

It'd be interesting to see what you have.

Well, I work at a warehouse that specializes in selling old magazines and newspaper on eBay...so what I own is different than what I have access to...

For instance, I don't own this and it has since been purchased by a supposedly nice man from Saskatoon but just before it went out the door I took the time to make some scans (a tiny bit of quality problems, but if you zoom in you should be alright)...

These are from a newspaper called the "Saskatoon Star" from January & February of 1913 (pre-NHL game summaries and articles forthcoming).

 

[Michael Farkas]

Again, Saskatoon Star newspaper from 1913:

Players of note, among many, we'll have Sprague Cleghorn, Odie Cleghorn, Newsy Lalonde, Punch Broadbent, Georges Vezina, Jack Laviolette, Joe Hall, Clint Benedict, Roberts, Tommy Dunderdale, Lester Patrick and many more...

Most game summaries give lineups (often full lineups with the few substitutions that were made), referees, many I believe had attendance, and many seem to reference tempo and ice conditions. You also get some nice clues as to dominance and "scouting reports" as well in some of the longer ones.

Also, it notes a transition phase from seven-man to six-man hockey, which is a little inconsistent during the season...in fact, I believe one game notes that half was played 7v7 and half was played 6v6 (!)...

1) 1/8/13 - Ed Carpenter signs with Moncton (sent to Hockey-Reference, it was missing from their transaction page) + hints of other minor transactions.
http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/7793/ptdc0001q.jpg

2) 1/9/13 - Montreal Canadiens article (Cleghorn, Roberts, Lalonde)
http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/4935/ptdc0002y.jpg

3) 1/9/13 - Quebec/Toronto game summary
http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/149/ptdc0003.jpg

4) 1/9/13 - Toronto/Ottawa game summary
http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/1051/ptdc0004.jpg

5) 1/13/13 - Quebec/Canadiens game summary
http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/6347/ptdc0005.jpg

6) 1/13/13 - Wanderers/Ottawa game summary
http://i55.tinypic.com/34pyhxg.jpg

7) 1/16/13 - Ottawa/Quebec game summary
http://img847.imageshack.us/img847/4126/ptdc0007.jpg

8) 1/16/13 - Tecumsehs/Torontos and Ottawa/Wanderers game summary
http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/4171/ptdc0009c.jpg

---time constraints, I'll just note "game summary" - apologies for inconvenience ---

9) 1/17/13 - Punch Broadbent featurette
http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/1710/ptdc0010g.jpg

10 & 11) 1/20/13 - 2 game summaries
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/8186/ptdc0011.jpg
http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/1967/ptdc0012.jpg

12) 1/20/13 - game summary
http://img811.imageshack.us/img811/1424/ptdc0013.jpg

13) 1/22/13 - "How Hockey Appeals to Buffalo Writer" anecdotes about hockey, the game, at the time...
http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/4120/ptdc0014.jpg

14) 1/22/13 - game summary
http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/4416/ptdc0015y.jpg

15) 1/24/13 - "Joe Hall Occupies a Unique Position in Hockey World" - Joe Hall Feature
http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/7674/ptdc0016.jpg

16) 1/25/13 - A call to bring down salaries across major pro leagues of the time
http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/5784/ptdc0017e.jpg

17) 1/27/13 - game summary
http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/8389/ptdc0018.jpg

18) 1/27/13 - game summary
http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/1724/ptdc0019.jpg

19) 1/27/13 - game summary
http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/8182/ptdc0020x.jpg

20) 1/27/13 - game summary
http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/7678/ptdc0021.jpg

21) 1/30/13 - A few stories/articles + game summary
http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/6679/ptdc0022.jpg

22) 1/30/13 - game summary
http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/6821/ptdc0023.jpg

23) 2/1/13 - game summary
http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/2530/ptdc0024.jpg

24) 2/3/13 - game summary
http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/3615/ptdc0025.jpg

25) 2/3/13 - game summary
http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/707/ptdc0026.jpg

26) 2/3/13 - game summary
http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/9792/ptdc0027i.jpg

27) 2/4/13 - game summary
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/5783/ptdc0028w.jpg

28) 2/5/13 - "Torontonians May Get the Stanley Cup Games" - Decisions on where Stanley Cup will be held and other SC-related logistics...
http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/6601/ptdc0029.jpg

29) 2/6/13 - game summary
http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/4526/ptdc0030.jpg

30) 2/6/13 - game summary
http://img864.imageshack.us/img864/2381/ptdc0031nrk.jpg

31/32) 2/8/13 - "That Fine System of the N.H.A. and Its Disadvantages" vaguely familar talk about penalty enforcement and policy in the NHA...
http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/8932/ptdc0032.jpg
http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/1813/ptdc0033.jpg

33) 2/8/13 - game summary
http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/7637/ptdc0034.jpg

34) 2/10/13 - "Quebec Cinched the Stanley Cup" / game summary
http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/6457/ptdc0035.jpg

35) 2/10/13 - game summary
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/3972/ptdc0036.jpg

36) 2/14/13 - "Hockey Salaries Must Come Down" + game summary
http://img860.imageshack.us/img860/1001/ptdc0037e.jpg

37) 2/17/13 - game summary
http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/9449/ptdc0038u.jpg

38) 2/17/13 - game summary
http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/1995/ptdc0039.jpg

39) 2/17/13 - game summary
http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/693/ptdc0040.jpg

40 & 41) 2/20/13 - game summaries ("Quebec Almost Certain Champs")
http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/8494/ptdc0041.jpg
http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/5934/ptdc0042.jpg

42) 2/20/13 - Collegiate Provincial Championships information/results
http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/5006/ptdc0043.jpg

Hope these can be of some help to research or anything else...enjoy...