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Records relate to Varsity Hockey at Lakehead University and to the International Collegiate Hockey Association (ICHA). Includes schedules, rosters, correspondence, and administrative documents: in small bound volumes by year. The records here represent the first years of Varsity Hockey at the newly established Lakehead University
The ICHA was made up of Lakehead University, Port Arthur, Ontario; Bemidji State College, Bemidji, Minnesota; Wisconsin State University, Superior, Wisconsin; St. Cloud State University; St. Cloud, Minnesota; Lake Superior State College, Sault Ste Marie, Michigan.
The records were donated to the Library by Athletics in September 1991.
Most files include contact information and other low-sensitivity personal information of hockey players and staff.
A list of all players, officials, and others mentioned in these files is available online: https://libguides.lakeheadu.ca/ld.php?content_id=37942893
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Correspondence and administrative records including:
- Eligibility Rules Sections 1-6.
- Game schedules.
- United College bid for invitation to membership.
- Letters about meetings to use WCHA playing rules.
- Letters about conflict of ruling - tied games.
- Results for most valuable player and letters of member votes
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Correspondence and administrative records including:
- Eligibility Certificates.
- LU ICHA Schedule.
- Letters of Lake Superior State College's interest to become a member of ICHA for 1967-1968 season.
- Votes to admit Lake Superior State College's membership to ICHA.
- Blank forms used by the organization for Northern Intercollegiate Conference, eligibility and intercollegiate contests.
- Game report - misconduct penalty; Bruce Chicoine striking Boyd Hussey unconscious.
- Follow up letters about the penalty by the directors which mentions previous fights on the ice with Ted Landry.
- Letters of request for statistics.
- ICHA game schedule 1968-1969.
- Letters between coaches about the schedules.
- Letter about disapproval of hockey officials.
- Letters of opening a bank account for the association.
- Letter of suspension as Vern Campigotto struck an official during a disagreement.
- Follow up letters about Vern Campigotto.
- ICHA All Conference Hockey Team and most valuable player votes results.
- Lakehead University News Release about the First All Conference Team results and most valuable player results.
- Letter with list of the All-American team players.
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Correspondence and administrative records including:
- Letter to Henry Akervall from Finland.
- Letters of the idea of forming a hockey conference.
- Letters regarding games.
- Letter from City of Port Arthur about having LU students referee the hockey league at the Civic Recreation.
- Referee's reports.
- Lists of players.
- Hockey team list.
- Letters for a game against University of Duluth, Brandon College.
- Letter of recommendation for Collin Sutherland and Collin's handwritten letter to LU.
- Hand written game results.
- Hockey team line up.
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Correspondence and administrative records including:
- Hockey schedules.
- Financial reports.
- Hockey team list with last team played.
- Teams from LU and United College list.
- Pre season conditioning exercises.
- Letter to Rodney Wills asking if he wants to join LU since he was a good player in Hammarskjold.
- Hockey and basketball athletic programme.
- List of names and addresses of players.
- Eligibility certificate.
- New releases - key players Murray Smith and Dave Siciliano, game summaries, game stats, hockey clinic details on contents and itinerary, LU joining the ICHA.
- Player list of names.
- League game total points list.
- Referee reports.
- Basketball teams with player names and height.
- Hand written hockey game notes against United College.
- Scoring record Superior vs Lakehead.
- Hockey personnel and scoring record Bemidji vs Lakehead.
- Matches hockey charts.
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Correspondence and administrative records including:
- Hockey schedule.
- Hand-drawn game strategies.
- Agendas with warmup exercises.
- Purchase agreements for gear.
- List of equipment purchased.
- David Siciliano's letter of critique to the Weekend Magazine - he was against the idea of Russia playing against the NHL and wanted to improve Canadian hockey.
- Follow up letter critiquing Russian coach Anatoly Tarasov about what is described as Russian hockey propaganda - Russia refusing to become professional league and facing off against amateur leagues to state they beat the best of Canada.
- Student hockey players and their diploma list.
- Letters between coaches - adding players, meetings.
- Hockey contracts to play games.
- Hockey player line up lists.
- Seat plan map of Fort William Gardens for Swedish Nationals vs Lakehead University.
- Eligibility Certificates.
- New Releases - games, coaching, player stats, Murray Smith graduation, Dave Siciliano becoming captain.
- Port Arthur Hockey Clinic - agenda with exercises
- Coaching Clinic in Dryden.
- Meeting Hockey Leadership Institute minutes, letters of federal government withdrawing financial support and cancellation of games.
- Varsity Hockey Rules.
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Correspondence and administrative records including:
- Hockey practice and game schedules.
- List of players and their addresses.
- Expense sheets.
- Pre-season conditioning exercises.
- Eligibility certificates.
- News releases - three LU players joining all conference team, game summaries, player suspension for attack on goalie, LU defeat Romanian hockey team on their Canadian tour.
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Correspondence and administrative records including:
- Letters about damages to many hotel rooms across various dates and locations and getting the team to pay.
- Letters about a theft (ship's wheel) from a motel.
- Letter about schedules.
- Itineraries.
- LU team lineup.
- Letters about students transferring schools and letters to try and offer financial assistance to students so they will stay in Canada instead of American colleges.
- Requests for use of the Port Arthur Arena for hockey practice.
- Hockey schedules.
- Athletic Contracts.
- Hockey budget, expenses.
- Eligibility lists.
- News releases; Murray Smith on All-American team.
- Scoring Statistics.
- Letters about the Port Arthur Arena dressing room addition and proposal document.
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Correspondence and administrative records including:
- Tentative schedules, rosters, detailed player information.
- Letters discussing schedules.
- Letters between coaches for schedules, games and financial assistance for the cost of travel - schools across Canada and the States.
- Letters from Lakehead University to others to recruit players.
- New releases announcing games, wins, student bursaries.
- Hockey schedules with many universities.
- Copy of 1971 NAIA National Hockey Championship March 6 and 7 with a page featuring Lakehead University Nor'Westers.
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Correspondence and administrative records including:
- Letters of players transferring to other schools.
- Letters of schedules.
- Athletic contracts.
- Letters of payments for travel games.
- Basketball and hockey schedules and budget tables for various universities.
- Names and addresses of high school students.
- Varsity hockey players detailed information.
- Certificate of eligibility lists.
- Bibliography on Hockey by Gaston Marcotte and Ronald Ferguson.
- Lakehead University Nor'Wester News - Coach Murray Williamson put three Canadian Teams on the year's schedule that will lead to play in the 1972 Olympics in Sapporo.
Hockey Canada Vol 1 No 2 which features a national tournament which features Lakehead University.
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