April 27, 1979 For the second time in two years fighting has hampered the Archbishop Carroll team in its quest for a championship in the sport of ice hockey. The innocent bystander this time was William Tennent, getting word late Thursday that the Carroll team voted to forfeit it’s game with the Panthers which was originally scheduled for 9:30 Thursday night. Because of Tuesday night’s all-out brawl with Archbishop Ryan, the Lower Bucks League champions, five Carroll players were suspended along with coach Gary Vetre, whose only crime impersonating a Woody Hayes and going out on the ice to slug a Ryan player, Dennis Harrison, did not do his impression of a punch bag instead pummeled Vetre repeatedly for what seemed like several minutes before being pulled away. The triumvirate which rules scholastic hockey in Southeastern Pennsylvania, Andy Richards (Suburban League), Charlie Judge (Lower bucks) and Jack Hunt (Inter-County) could […]

  April 25, 1979 One of the biggest upsets of the scholastic hockey year occurred at the Face Off Circle in Warminster when Malvern Prep, the third-place team in the Inter-County League during the season, shocked perennial Suburban League power William Tennent, 6-5, on Tuesday night. But that startling development pales by comparison to what happened in the first game between Archbishop Carroll and Archbishop Ryan, particularly when the future of interleague play may hang in the balance. With less than a minute to go in the first game, a knock-down, drag out fight broke out between Ryan, the Lower Bucks League champions, and Carroll, the Inter-County champions. It raged out of control for several minutes and, at one point, the coach of the Carroll team, Gary Vetre, did his impression of Woody Hayes and slugged a Ryan player. Carroll won the game, 7-1, but the bottom line is that […]

March 21, 1978 CREDIT: Doylestown Intelligencer         The first annual Pennsylvania State High School Regional Hockey Tournament will be held March 30 through April 9 at the Face-off Circle rink in Warminster, the competition is being sponsored by the Central Bucks-Mont Glaciers Hockey Club. All of the participating teams will play a three-game round-robin with the two teams with the best records qualifying for a best-of-three championship series. The winner then will advance to the Pennsylvania State High School Championships at State College April 14-15. The tourney entrants will come from the three major high school hockey leagues in the Greater Philadelphia area. Participating teams are: Archbishop Carroll, Chestnut Hill Academy, and Haverford High School (all division winners in the Inter-County Scholastic Hockey League), Abington and William Tennent (conference champions from the Suburban Hockey League) and Bishop Egan from the Lower Bucks County Scholastic Hockey League.