In mid-century and despite having no major home sports team, sports columnist John Hanlon’s insightful articles and whit combined with Frank Lanning’s legendary cartoon style to help rank the Providence Journal sports pages among the best in all of America. Hanlon was a commanding yet gentlemanly press box presence at all RI Reds home games [...]
The Olympics of 1940 and 1944 were both cancelled because of WWII, but even before the '48 Games at St. Moritz got underway there was another war erupting - a hockey war - that threatened the inclusion of hockey and the appearance of RI’s first Olympic hockey players. The conflict involved two American hockey bodies, [...]
PROVIDENCE – The Providence Bruins, in a gracious offer to assist in the launch and fundraising for the new RI Hockey Hall of Fame, will formally unveil the Hall’s 2018 Charter Class with a scoreboard introduction of the inductees during the first intermission of their Sunday, March 4th, 3:05 pm game against longtime archrival Springfield. [...]
In the Fall of 1964, Brown University’s men's hockey coach, Jim Fullerton, cleverly arranged for Nancy Schieffelin '67, an experienced hockey player enrolled at Pembroke, the coordinate women’s college for Brown, to join a team practice disguised in full uniform. The exercise was to show the men's team how well a woman could play. An [...]
In the early days of international hockey, Canada was all but invincible. It won the first four Olympic tournaments (1920, ‘24, ‘28, ‘32) and the first two International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) World Championships (1930 and ‘31) without losing a single game. When looking closely at the scores, one could see that Canada was occasionally [...]
Transcript of Jan 23, 2018 Press Conference Remarks by Hall of Fame Chairman, Vincent Cimini. On January 19, 1898, Rhode Island’s rich and colorful history of organized hockey officially began when seven skaters, four born and raised in Rhode Island, led Brown University to a 6-0 win over Harvard in the very first intercollegiate hockey [...]
