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General Category => Hockey => Topic started by: abmarks on December 01, 2017, 01:44:09 PM

Title: UHN was UHN long before we knew it
Post by: abmarks on December 01, 2017, 01:44:09 PM
Found this in the Boston Globe archives.   They knew it was UHN all the way back in 1979!
Title: Re: UHN was UHN long before we knew it
Post by: billhoward on December 03, 2017, 11:02:51 PM
Memory lane, ignore if you're under 50. Joe Concannon BU '61 was the Boston Globe's college hockey writer just about forever (also road racing and other amateur sports). He died young, at 60, in 2000. About the saddest line you can see in an obit: "He leaves no immediate family, but ...  Unlike Bob Ryan and Peter Gammons and later Dan Dan Shaughnessy, you would call him a solid writer, just cranked out the stories day after day.
Title: Re: UHN was UHN long before we knew it
Post by: marty on December 04, 2017, 05:52:25 AM
Bill, where did you want the endquote?