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Flyers coach Fred Shero couldn’t win
an All-Star game to save his life. So he
typed up a letter explaining to his
Campbell Conference squad how they
should go about beating the Prince of
Wales Conference stars Tuesday.
, The letter was nothing more than a
boiled-down version of the strategy he
won two Stanley Cups with in'
Philadelphia: play the man, take short
shifts, forecheck, be careful with the
puck in the defensive zone.
; His squad still lost, but the strategy
wasn’t anything new to the players.
’ Success breeds imitation and
imitation is the sincerest form of flatery.
Nowhere else could those cliches apply
better. Since winning those cups in 1974
and ’75, every team in the NHL has
adopted the Flyers’ style even the
lofty, free-skating Canadiens. If you’re
looking for why the Flyers haven’t
dominated the league the last two years
like they used to, look no farther than
here.
It’s simply that the Flyers’ brand of
hockey can beat any team including
the Flyers. And the Flyers’ brand of
ISC Invitational Tourney a look at future
By LESLIE 8088
Daily Collegian Sports Writer
A snow-covered ground, tem
peratures in the mid-teens and a
gusty wind doesn’t seem like perfect
soccer weather, but it won’t bother
the members of the Women’s
International Soccer. Club.
These sub-arctic conditions won’t
be upsetting because the club is
participating in the first Women’s
Invitational Indoor Soccer Tour
nament to be held at the I.M. Building
and Rec Hall this weekend.
“This is the first women’s indoor
soccer tournament in the United
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NHL Hockey
hockey is not just gooning it up/as their
detractors used to scream in their Dave
Schultz days.
Sure, they were physical and often too
physical. Intimidation won them many a
game, especially against teams like the
Rangers and Sabres, who preferred to
tiptoe around the ice.
Initially, teams tried to copy the
physical aspett of the Flyers, loading up
their rosters with moose who thought
goal mouths were something to punch
people in. The Rangers hired the all-time
NHL bad guy, John Ferguson, to coach;
Minnesota took Ted Harris, a bruiser
who had finished his career under,Shero.
Soon, nearly every organization had
designated hitters either on or behind
States, as far as I’ve heard,” said
Wendy Coyle, tournament director
and ISC president.
Competition begins Saturday in
Gym 3 of the I.M. Building. Eight
teams will compete, representing
four states. Coming from Virginia are
the Great Danes and the Hell Cats.
The Meteors and the Gypsies hail
from New York City and the Title
Bason Blues play their home games
in Washington, D.C. Rounding out the
field is the ISC.
“The competition is pretty, high
caliber,” Coyle said, “The team from
Washington D.C. finished in first
By ERIC YODER
the bench
When the Flyers met the Sabres in the
’75 finals, Buffalo was over its head in
praise for its bad guy, Jerry “King
Kong” Korab. That was a switch,
because Buffalo is usually over its head
in snow only
In any case, Korab’s performance in
that series showed that the goons were
not what made the Flyers champions. As
a fitting conclusion to a dismal showing,
Korab was mostly responsible for both
the Flyers’ goals in the clinching game.
Although one can still hardly hear the
word hockey used apart from its adopted
modifiers, “violence in," hockey has
learned putting fists in the other guy’s
face doesn’t win games. Putting the
place in its region.”
The tournament marks a triumph
in the women’s battle to achieve
equality with the men’s division of the
ISC. Ever since the women’s club was
initiated last winter, Coyle has been
trying to think of new ways to im
prove its program.
“In the past, the men’s ISC division
has had indoor soccer tournaments.
So, I came up with the idea of also
having a women’s indoor soccer
tournament,” Coyle said.
Not only will this tournament help
the women’s program at Penn State,
but it may also have far-reaching
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to the All-Stars. The key is discipline.
Hockey players aren’t known to be a
particularly disciplined bunch, possibly
because of the free-flowing nature of the
game itself. Teams like the Canadiens,
Rangers and Sabres succeeded in the
past because of their superior talent with
which they free-styled. When the Flyers
a team with inferior talent came
along, they succeeded because they
played a system.
The discipline and the system came
mostly from Europe—Russia especially
at a time when North American
hockey blindly clung to the illusion that
its game was better. It took Shero to
have the courage to say otherwise, and
again an incident involving the Flyers
proved it.
effects on the future of women’s
soccer.
“People will look at it and realize
that women do play soccer all over
the United States,” Coyle said. “Look
at California and the state of
Washington. They have women’s
leagues of a couple thousand mem
bers. This tournament is a kind of
precursor for organizing some kind of
nation-wide organization."
The games will start at 1 p.m.
Saturday in Gym 3 of the I.M.
Building and continue until 7 p.m.
Competition Sunday will start at 9
a.m. and end at 4 p.m.
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of Philadelphia Flyers.
The teams that have little talent still
, rely on their goon squads, even after the
' Flyers have traded Schultz and clamed
Bob Kelly, Andre Dupont and Don
Saleski. Those teams still get minimal
results because they have neither the
skill nor the discipline to play the system
style of hpckey. They play it super
ficially, incompletely
But for the teams that have talent and
can control it, teams like the Islanders,
and, yes, even the Canadiens, the results
have been quick and impressive.
The Flyers still have that talent and
discipline, and may capture the cup this
year. But no matter who wins it all,
they’ll do it in a way Fred Shero
pioneered.
Namath retires
from grid play
PHOENIX, Ariz. (AP) Joe Willie
Namath, whose frolicking lifestyle was a
standard for some and whose quar
terbacking talent was a standard for
others, has retired from professional
football.
Namath, 34, confirmed his retirement
from the National Football League at an
airport mob scene of reporters and
broadcasters Wednesday.
Baseball meeting
A meeting for all varsity baseball
players of 1977, plus those invited back
from fall practice, will be held at 7 p.m.
today in 114 Rec Hall!
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