WOMEN-IN-HOCKEY Digest 623

Topics covered in this issue include:

  1) Re: Argentina - FACE-OFF
	by email@hidden
  2) Re: Two things
	by Marc Inglis 

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Date: Sun, 6 Jul 1997 14:17:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: email@hidden
To: email@hidden
Subject: Re: Argentina - FACE-OFF
Message-ID: 

In a message dated 97-07-05 18:08:55 EDT, you write:

<<  Inm specially interested in the term FACE-OFF. (I
 
 > kind of like it) What does the word actually stand for? Players are
 facing 
 > each other ... Is that it, or is there something else to the word >>


I think the origins of this phrase go back to when they first started playing
hockey  in leper colonies.  They had to stop the game because someone had a
face-off in the corner.


sorry gang -- could not resist that one.   :-)

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Date: Sun, 6 Jul 1997 15:52:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: Marc Inglis 
To: email@hidden
Subject: Re: Two things
Message-ID: 

HERE HERE!!!!!!!

The hidden agenda, there always is one, is he doesen't think that girls can
play on boy's teams?

At 06:41 AM 7/4/97 -0700, you wrote:
>I agree with the team official...this is ridiculous.  Nowhere does it say in
>the Bible that children should not change their outer clothing in front of
>each other.  There's a lot in Leviticus and Deuteronomy about "uncovering
>nakedness," but that refers to sexual intercourse.  If this boy is so modest
>about his body, he should be glad he isn't in a sport like swimming, diving,
>volleyball or gymnastics, which leave a lot less to the imagination (even
>fully clothed) than hockey.
>
>
>
>BTW, this is something that has been driving me nuts for months.  There's a
>guy on AOL who claims that he tracked down a woman who played professionally
>for a low minor team in Marquette, Michigan in the *1970's*.  The story is
>full of holes and I'm inclined to believe it's a hoax, but I wanted to know
>if anyone else had heard of this.  The fellow who's claiming this started a
>file on women's hockey with the header "was Manon really the first?" and told
>me privately that this goalie had actually appeared on the cover of Time (she
>hadn't - I checked their index).  I also checked the family collection of THN
>back to the late 70's, and there wasn't so much as a peep, even in the
>stories covering Manon Rheaume, Vicky Sunohara and Erin Whitten.
>
>This supposedly happened for the Marquette Iron Rangers of the old USHL in
>the 1975-1976 season.  The woman was named Karen Koch, and she was allegedly
>cut from the team for (get this) refusing to a wear a mask after three games.
> Records from that league are fragmentary, so it's impossible to tell from
>what stats have survived whether anyone named Karen (or Kerry, or Carey, or
>Ken) Koch played goal for the Iron Rangers.  An interview with Karen Koch
>appeared in a publication called Just Hockey, and the person who's been
>publicizing it on AOL is one of the editors.
>
>If ANYONE has independent confirmation of this, I'd be extremely grateful.
> If it's true, Karen Koch deserves to be honored.  If it isn't, the story
>should be squelched before it shows up in a history of hockey in twenty years
>or so.
>
>Thanks in advance.....
>
>Lisa Evans
>
>I find it inconceivable that a story this big 
>
>


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