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1992 Pennsbury will have to wait til next year for another shot
April 6, 1992 Pennsbury was eliminated from the Tier III state series when the Falcons dropped a 7-3 contest to Haverford High School on Tuesday at the Face-Off Circle in Warminster.”I only had two goals for this team to meet, and they met them both,” said Pennsbury coach Jack O’Donnell. “I wanted them to win…
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1992 Tennent falls in the Flyers Cup final
April 6, 1992 William Tennent’s hopes for a trip to the state ice hockey championship vanished when junior Mike Petrangelo crumbled to the ice with seven minutes left in the second period of the second game of the Flyers Cup final. Monsignor Bonner went on to win, 6-1 Wednesday at the Skatium in Havertown to…
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1992 Bonner routs Unionville in Flyers Cup Semi-Final
March 30, 1992 To Unionville coach Mac McGarry, facing Monsignor Bonner in Thursday night’s semifinal of the Flyers Cup Championship was like trying to run from an oncoming tidal wave. “Every line of theirs looked the same, all pressure, all giving 100 percent, and you couldn’t tell the difference from one line to the next,”…
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1990 Defensive play propels Friars to top
April 17, 1990 Malvern Prep 6 Upper St. Clair 3 PITTSBURGH, PA. Early in the ice hockey season, few people, if any, probably picked Malvern Prep’s young and inexperienced team to win more than dozen games let alone a championship of any kind.But the Friars, who began with a shaky 1-2 start in November before…
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1990 Panthers are derailed in bid to repeat as champs
April 12, 1990 HAVERTOWN, PA. William Tennent coach Joe Paul witnessed “Nightmare on Darby Road” Monday night as his Panthers were slashed, 11-2, by Malvern Prep in the Flyers Cup title game played at the Havertown Skatium.“It was horrifying at times watching,” Paul said. “We just weren’t ready to play, and Mal- vern killed us.…
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1990 Tennent to face Malvern for title
April 9, 1990 HAVERTOWN, PA. April 9 has been circled in red on William Tennent coach Joe Paul’s calendar ever since the 1989-90 scholastic ice hockey season began. And tonight, at 7:45 at the Skatium in Havertown, will be the game that determines whether William Tennent will be able to retain its Flyers Cup championship.…
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1992 Council Rock puts an end to Malvern’s season
April 4, 1992 Keith Grimley, Malvern Prep’s star forward, leaned against the concrete wall outside his team’s locker room. With his jersey already off and the runner-up trophy in hand, he tried to figure out where things went wrong with the Friars’ 1991-92 season. After Malvern battled back Tuesday to tie its best-of-three series with…
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1991 Tier 1 Flyers Cup eludes Malvern
April 4, 1991 Despite being down, 1-0, to Council Rock in the best-of-three final for the Tier I Flyers Cup championship, Malvern Prep figured to have an advantage in Tuesday night’s second game by returning to its home rink at the Skatium in Havertown with a horde of fans backing the team. But Council Rock…
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1991 Bussetti’s goals propel Council Rock
April 1, 1991 Roman Bussetti scored a hat trick at the Face-Off Circle Thursday night to key Council Rock to a 3-2 victory over defending Flyers Cup champion Malvern Prep in the first game of their best-of-three Flyers Cup Tier I championship series. The series will continue tomorrow with a 7:45 pm. faceoff at the…
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1991 Rock, penalties eliminate GA in title game
March 25, 1991 Penalties and ejections marred the Suburban High School Hockey League championship series between Germantown Academy and Council Rock, which won the title. In two games. “The series should have really been two or three games of excel lent hockey between two excellent hockey teams,” said Germantown Academy coach John loia. “But that…
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1989 Conestoga is beaten in Flyers Cup final
April 11, 1989 William Tennent goaltender Scott Shaw said he had butterflies before the Flyers Cup Championship final against Conestoga on Monday night. What he didn’t know was that the Pioneers had their own butterflies, knowing that if they couldn’t find a way to beat the Panthers’ goalie, their chances of winning were slim. In…
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1989 Tennent vs Conestoga in Flyers Cup Final
April 10, 1989 The written word was about to become an unwanted addition to William Tennent head coach Joe Paul’s diet as the Panthers met touted Malvern Prep in the Flyers Cup semifinal game Monday at the Skatium in Havertown. “From the very beginning of the season, I was saying that we weren’t going to…
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1989 Malvern Prep ousted in Flyers Cup semifinal
April 6, 1989 The results of last week’s opening round-robin format of the Flyers Cup Championship at the Skatium established Malvern Prep and Central Bucks as the favorites to meet in the finals of the tournament. So much for early returns. On Monday, Malvern was ousted from the tournament when it was dealt a 5-3…
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1989 Tennent and Central Bucks advance
April 3, 1989 Central Bucks, William Tennent, Malvern Prep and Conestoga all advanced to the Final Four of the Flyers Cup, which will continue tonight and tomorrow with 7:45 p.m. faceoffs at the Havertown Skatium. William Tennent, Northern Scholastic Hockey League champion, will meet Malvern Prep, Eastern Hockey League champion, tonight. Central Bucks, Suburban Hockey…
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1989 Tennent – Egan match to begin tourney
March 27, 1989 The scholastic ice hockey version of March Madness will begin tonight at 8 with the opening game of the Flyers Cup between William Tennent and Bishop Egan at the Face Off Circle in Warminster. Tennent, the Northern Scholastic Hockey League champion, and Egan, the Lower Bucks Hockey League champion, are two of…
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1988 – Seasons end for four area teams at playoffs
March 31, 1988 The word meltdown took on a new meaning this week when, in the span of 24 hours, all four area ice hockey teams competing in postseason play suffered losses that put an end to their seasons. The most surprising losses came on successive nights at the Havertown Skatium during the Flyers Cup…
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1988 William Tennent takes President’s Cup, Council Rock eliminates Wood
March 28, 1988 There was good news and bad news out of the Northern Scholastic Hockey League. The bad news was that league champion Archbishop Wood was ousted from the prestigious Flyers Cup tournament at the Havertown Skatium last week. The good news was that the NSHL’s second-place finisher, William Tennent, captured the President’s Cup…
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1988 Council Rock Advances to Flyers Cup Games
March 21, 1988 Council Rock swept a two-game Suburban Hockey League championship series with Central Bucks last week to advance to the 1988 Flyers Cup Scholastic Championship. The Indians will face Northern Scholastic Hockey League champion Archbishop Wood tonight at 9:15, in the second game of a round robin doubleheader at the host site of…
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Coaches from area gearing up for Keystone Games
July 5, 1987 Although John loia stepped down from the coaching position he held for the last four seasons, the Region 1 midget (17 years old and under) ice hockey team still has an area coach at the helm. Craig, the coach of the Junior B Little Flyers team, took over, and his 20-member team…
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1987 Steve Kinsley Flyers Cup MVP
April 9, 1987 Steve Kinsley recalls his freshman year on the hockey team at Malvern Prep. He particularly remembers being impressed by the seniors. “They were real leaders, and I said to myself, ‘When I’m a senior, I’m going to lead like that,” he said. Kinsley is a senior now, and in recent weeks he…
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1987 Malvern Prep wins Flyers Cup
April 3, 1987 Jeff Spencer scored two goals and Steve Kinsley added a goal and two assists to lead Malvern Prep to a 5-3 win over Conestoga for the Flyers Cup Scholastic Ice Hockey Championship last night at the Havertown Skatium. Malvern, which had lost to Conestoga during last year’s championship, came out playing physical…
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1987 Conestoga, Malvern Prep prepare to face off again for Flyers Cup
April 2, 1987 Conestoga and Malvern Prep advanced this week to the championship game of the Flyers Cup scholastic ice hockey tournament. In what could be labeled the Showdown in Havertown II, the game, to be held at 8 tonight at the Skatium, will mark the second straight year the two teams have faced each…
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1987 Malvern Prep romps into Flyers Cup final
March 31, 1987 Chick Kelly scored three goals and assisted on three others to propel Malvern Prep to a 10-3 victory over William Tennent and into the final of the Flyers Cup scholastic ice hockey championship. After falling behind 3-1 in the first period, Malvern came back to score nine straight goals. Malvern held Tennent…
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1987 Wins advance Pioneers, Friars in Flyers Cup
March 30, 1987 The Main Line may see a final round shootout in the Flyers Cup scholastic ice hockey championship between Conestoga and Malvern Prep as both teams advanced into the semifinal round last week with wins over Bishop Egan. The two teams won the Orange Division of the round-robin playoff for a berth in…
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1987 Friars and Pioneers skate into final six
March 23, 1987 Conestoga and Malvern Prep breezed into the Flyers Cup championship last week by sweeping the final- round playoffs of their respective leagues. Malvern drubbed Haverford High 8-2 in Monday’s second game of their best of three series of the Eastern High School Hockey League to take the title. Conestoga, meanwhile, beat Downingtown…
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1987 Playoff action begins in quest of Flyers Cup
March 2, 1987 The regular season is over in area scholastic ice hockey, and playoff action in quest of the coveted Flyers Cup has begun. Malvern Prep ended its regular season in the Eastern High School Hockey League with a 17-0 record to capture first place. The Friars ended the regular season with an 8-5…
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1986 Conestoga wins second state crown in a row
April 14, 1986 The pressure was on the Conestoga ice hockey team this year. The team was the defending state champion, and its 1985-86 roster included many of the key players from last year’s squad. As it turned out, the Conestoga skaters did everything expected of them and more. Saturday night, they brought down the…
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1986 Panthers meet clone in AAA hockey title
April 10, 1986 His hockey team had just been summoned off the Mt. Lebanon Recreation Center ice, another concession to the Rec Center’s always cramped schedule. But as Upper St. Clair High School Coach Dave Hornack drinks in the atmosphere of the final days of this most successful season, he allows himself a second to…
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1986 Conestoga finally captures big one
April 7, 1986 When Conestoga faced off against Malvern Prep in the championship game of the Flyers Cup last Thursday night at the Skatium, it was an all-or-nothing situation. The Conestoga boys had a 28-0 record entering the game, but not one of those wins would have meant a thing had they gone belly up…
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1986 Conestoga sweeps through 1st round in Flyers Cup play
March 31, 1985 The opening round of the 1986 Flyers Cup has been completed, and, not surprisingly, Conestoga swept through the two game round without a loss. What was a little surprising was the ease with which the Pioneer skaters disposed of their opponents The six teams in the tournament were divided into two divisions.…
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1986 Six teams are in place for Flyers Cup competition
March 24, 1985 Competition in the 1986 Flyers Cup begins tonight at the Skatium in Havertown, and players and officials are brimming with excitement. “Playing in the Flyers Cup is something that every high school hockey player in the area dreams about,” said Flyers Cup chairman Joe Moderski. “The Flyers Cup has continued to grow,…
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1985 Canevin, Mt Lebanon lose finals
April 7, 1985 NEW HOPE, Pa. The score board at Face-Off Circle Ice Rink indicated Pennsbury had beaten Canevin, 3-1, in Class AA and Conestoga had beaten Mt. Lebanon, 6-4, in Class AAA for the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Hockey League championships yesterday. Canevin, however, did not lose, according to first-year Coach Larry Koch. “There were two…
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1985 Mt. Lebanon ends with slow start
April 11, 1985 It is rare that the Mt. Lebanon hockey team gets behind early in a game. Throughout the 1984-85 season, the Blue Devils either got off to an explosive start or kept it close throughout the game before either pulling away or falling flat on their skates. In the state high school championship…
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1985 Conestoga’s wagon rolls over Lebos in final
April 11, 1985 The reason for Mt. Lebanon’s 6-4 loss to Conestoga in the Class AAA state hockey final last Saturday at Warminster’s Face-Off Circle rink was simple, according to Lebos’ goaltender Hank Horn. “We just got beat by a better team,” Horn said. “I think we played real well and I think we tried…
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1985 Horn, Polomskys lead Mt. Lebanon to AAA Final
April 4, 1985 For most high school hockey players, it would have been the game of their lives. But the way Mt. Lebanon goalie Hank Horn and forwards Mike and Phil Polomsky have been playing, last Thursday’s 5-0 victory over Upper St. Clair in the Class AAA Western Regional final was just another night at…
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1985 ‘Stoga rebounds, wins state title
April 8, 1985 It has been said that all’s well that ends well, and right now, all’s well with the Conestoga ice hockey team. On Saturday night, the Pioneers ended a banner season by knocking off Mount Lebanon, 6-4, to win the 1985 Pennsylvania state championship. Winning the title helped the Conestoga skaters ease the…
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1985 Flyers Cup is off to an exciting start
March 24, 1985 What a wild and exciting time it was in the world of area scholastic ice hockey last week. The week, which started with the end of the various leagues’ playoffs and ended with the start of the Flyers Cup, featured the crowning of three league playoff champions. The Eastern High School Hockey…
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1985 Cherry Hill East rally ices first Flyers Cup for So. Jersey
April 2, 1985 HAVERFORD, Pa. – The Cherry Hill East High School ice hockey team became the first South Jersey team to capture the Flyers Cup last night when it rallied in the final minute to post a 3-2 victory over Conestoga in the title game. After Conestoga battled back to knot the contest at…
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1985 It’s Conestoga vs. Cherry Hill for Flyers Cup
April 1, 1985 In one of his on-screen narratives, German filmmaker Werner Herzog remarked, “Everyday life is just an illusion beyond which lies the reality of dreams.” The players of the Conestoga ice hockey team can relate to that quote right about now. Tonight, at the Skatium in Havertown, the Conestoga boys will be looking…
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1985 East bidding for Flyers Cup
March 30, 1985It has been a long climb to the top for the Cherry Hill East hockey team. The Cougars have survived such drawbacks as no available practice facility, an hour drive to the nearest rink for games, the anonymity that comes from being a club and not a varsity team, and such indignities as…
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1988 Flyers Cup awards
Each member of the Flyers Cup Championship team was awarded a gold medal, and a pair of Bauer Supreme 1000 ice skates.
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1984 Rankel’s soft touch aids Council Rock
March 27, 1984 INDIANS TRIM BONNER IN FLYERS CUPJohn Rankel is trying his best to dispel the notion that he’s just another one of those dime-a-dozen scoring machines who seem to dominate hockey at the scholastic level. Most good teams possess one. You know the type a Marcel Dionne clone, somebody who can turn on…
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1984 Ryan wins by hard work – on and off the ice
April 1, 1984 The coach is a city police officer who has been patrolling the streets for 18 years. The team’s vice president has been a mummer for 27 years, so if you need directions along Broad Street, Joe Quattrone is a good person to ask. There is a club made up largely of players’…
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1984 Ryan brings home Flyers Cup with 5-4 victory over Council Rock
March 28, 1984 It was a matchup between a team. that hinges its success on the lunch- pail work ethic and one that kills softly with speed and finesse. Chalk one up for the lunch-pail kids. Archbishop Ryan last night became the first school within the city limits to bring home the Flyers Cup with…
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1984 Ryan Tops Council Rock in opener of Flyers Cup
March 20, 1984 Ray Matz scored two goals and sparked Archbishop Ryan High’s comeback from a two-goal deficit to a 5-3 victory over Council Rock in the opening round of the fifth annual Flyers Cup hockey tournament last night at the Havertown Skatium. Council Rock, the champion of the Suburban League, grabbed a 2-0 lead…
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1984 Flyers Cup is a wide-open playoff
March 19, 1984 The participants use the term “Super Bowl” to describe the Flyers Cup. That’s no exaggeration of the effect the Flyers Cup has had on the area’s scholastic hockey players, even if the terminology comes from another sport. “It’s the ultimate experience in high school hockey,” said Malvern Prep coach Bill Galli.…
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1984 The fifth annual Flyers Cup Tournament will begin tomorrow at Havertown Skatium
March 18, 1984 Mike Cardonick scored two goals as Council Rock High jolted Cherry Hill East last week, 3-1, and won the Suburban Ice Hockey League championship series at the Face-Off Circle in Warminster, two games to one. Council Rock (18-7-1), which finished third in the Liberty Division during the regular season – East…
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1984 Flyers reaffirm support for youth series
March 8, 1984 Flyer’s president Jay Snider made no bones about his goal for the Flyers Cup “That’s here to stay,” Snider said of the cup, which brings together the winners of the four area scholastic leagues, in what amounts to a regional playoff. “We’d like to see the Flyers Cup be 50 years old.”…
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1983 All-Area hockey team features young goalie and record scorer
April 11, 1983 The highest-scoring player in Southeastern Pennsylvania and the best goaltending prospect to play in this region highlight The Inquirer’s 1983 all-area hockey team. Vince McNamee, who scored 112 goals for George Washington this year, and goalie Michael Richter, who led Germantown Academy to the Flyers Cup for the second straight year while…
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1983 Germantown Academy Patriots win the Pennsylvania Cup
April 7, 1983 There are people who will say that in 1983, Germantown Academy won a tainted state scholastic hockey championship. But as far as the Patriots are concerned, people can say what they want — the Pats have proven they go best with ice. Germantown Academy, fresh off its second consecutive Flyers Cup championship,…
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1983 Germantown Captures Flyers Cup
March 31, 1983 Bob Brody won his second straight Bobby Clarke Award last night, and Germantown Academy won its second straight Flyers Cup. The two are inextricably intertwined. Brody scored the key goal last night and GA defeated Bishop Egan, 9-5, before 1,471 fans in the University City Center. The win broke Egan’s 24-game winning…
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1983 Team that’s absent adds intrigue to Flyers Cup
March 21, 1983 The fourth Flyers Cup opens tonight with two games in Penn’s Class of 1923 Rink, with the team that may be the best in the area not included. The reason? Cherry Hill East, champion of the powerful Suburban League, is on the wrong side of the Delaware River. Cherry Hill East and…
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1983 Egan advances in Flyers Cup
March 24, 1983 Bishop Egan rallied from an early two-goal deficit to defeat Malvern Prep, 4-3, in overtime last night in second-round Flyers Cup play at the University City Center rink on Penn’s campus. The Eagles’ second straight victory sends them into Wednesday’s finale of the “win three” format, where they will meet the survivor…
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1983 Patriots Gliding to success
March 7, 1983 Germantown Academy has broken the ice in getting high school hockey noticed. Most high school ice hockey programs get the same respect as, say, a bunch of kids in street clothes playing a pickup basketball game against the varsity. It’s easy to visualize a scenario in which a school’s hockey captain, wearing…
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1982 West Chester in Cup Final; GA ousts Haverford
March 25, 1982 Bruce Craig says we still haven’t seen the real Germantown Academy hockey team, the skilled combination of skating and checking that won 25 straight hockey games this year. Maybe not, but what the fans at the Flyers Cup saw last night appeared to be good enough. GA eliminated Haverford, 7-1, in last…
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1982 Ryan, West Chester Triumph in openers of Flyers Cup
March 23, 1982 Vinnie Craven scrambled the Lower Bucks County League playoffs last week. Then he stood the Flyers Cup on its head last night. Archbishop Ryan’s sophomore goaltender won his third straight pressure game as the Raiders blew away heralded Germantown Academy, 7-3, on the opening night of the regional hockey tournament at Penn’s…
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1982 Germantown Academy Wins Cup
April 1, 1982 Joe Richter was a surprise choice in goal for Germantown Academy last night. So surprised that he recorded the first shutout in Flyers Cup history … so shocked that he turned back 26 shots and stoned West Chester, 5-0. The victory, before 1,500 fans at the Class of 1923 Rink, gave GA…
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1981 Schoolboy savors first Flyers Cup-in job of coach
March 29, 1981 When Greg Arnold was gliding around the rinks of the Inter-County League, centering for Scott Chamness and Jim Bolger on the most powerful hockey line ever seen in this area, there was no Flyers Cup. Arnold had left Archbishop Carroll High and gone to Canterbury (Conn.) Prep before the Flyers Cup became…
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1981 Carroll wins Flyers Cup
March 26, 1981 Jeffrey Arnold clinched the Flyers Cup last night, scoring five goals and setting a record with 17 in the four- game series, as defending champion Archbishop Carroll humiliated Haverford, 9-0, at Penn’s Class of ’23 Rink Carroll thus successfully defended the Cup, and its goaltenders, Rob Schnorr and backup Tom McCullough, shared…
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1981 Carroll tops Haverford in preview
March 24, 1981 The Flyers Cup preliminary rounds confirmed what most hockey people had long suspected – Archbishop Carroll is in a league by itself. Unfortunately for the Patriots, however, they’ll have to come back to the Penn rink again tomorrow night to prove it, before they can claim the Cup. Again. The defending Flyers…
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1981 Egan nips Haverford in Flyers Cup; Arnold scores 5 as Carroll tops GA
March 18, 1981 Bishop Egan threw the Flyers Cup into confusion last night, riding Vince McNamee’s four goals to a 6-5 upset of favored Haverford, and creating the possibility that tie-breakers will be needed after Monday’s final round-robin preliminaries. In the first game at the Penn rink last night, defending champion Archbishop Carroll got five…
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1981 Carroll Powders Egan in opener
March 17, 1981 Archbishop Carroll grabbed the Flyers Cup by the throat last night. The Cup is still alive, but squirming. The defending champions scored a Cup-record 10 goals, defeating Bishop Egan, 10-3, at Penn. Phil Chamness set a record with seven assists, and linemate Jeff Arnold tied a record with five goals. The two…
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1981 Carroll wins Pennsylvania Cup, 4-3
March 30, 1981 Robbie Schnorr is the forgotten man on Archbishop Carroll’s hockey club. The goaltender often is, but on a high-scoring team like Carroll, which also has two all-star defense- men, Schnorr is absolutely buried. “It’s hard at times,” he said. “We do have a good defense, and we have a high-scoring offense. The…
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1981 Flyers to sponsor state ice tourney
March 12, 1981 Scholastic hockey finally will get a legitimate state championship. The breakthrough, accomplished after a year of negotiations, came yesterday. The Flyers announced they will sponsor a state championship, named the Pennsylvania Cup, pitting the winner of the Flyers Cup (the Southeastern Pennsylvania champion) against the winner of ongoing playoffs among three, previously…
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1980 The best : Hockey star Scott Chamness is player of the year
June 15, 1980 When Scott Chamness skated onto the ice four years ago his first varsity hockey game for Archbishop Carroll High School, he gathered his teammates around him, and announced, “We’re gonna tear this league apart.” The league Chamness was referring to was the Inter-County Hockey league and, although nobody knew it a the…
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1979 Eight Schools will battle for area hockey title
April 5, 1979 By Don McKeeInquirer Staff Writer The regional hockey playoffs, matching the best teams from the three area leagues, will begin Monday with four games.Playoffs in the three participating leagues — the Inter-County, Suburban, and Lower Bucks are continuing, but most regional participants have been determined. Last night, Archbishop Carroll won its second…
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1979 Scott Chamness: The best on the ice
March 22, 1979 The greatest scorer in area hockey history – Scott Chamness of Archbishop Carroll High School – Heads the third annual Inquirer All-Area team. With shifty moves and a great shot, Chamness is one of the best scholastic players in the Middle Atlantic States. His scoring totals border on incredible and have earned…
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1980 Chamness named to all-area hockey team for fourth year
April 13, 1980 Scott Chamness, winner of the Bobby Clarke Award in the recently completed Flyers Cup, heads the Inquirer’s all-area hockey team. Chamness, the highest scorer in area scholastic-hockey history, has been named to the team in all four years at Archbishop Carroll. In a rare display of what he has meant to his…
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1980 Philadelphia Inquirer Athlete of the Week
March 27, 1980 About 20 years ago the New York Yankees had a farm team called the Kansas City Athletics. The Athletics, of course, played in the same league as the Yankees. It was a cute little system. Anytime Kansas City came up with a genuine talent – Roger Maris, for instance – they…
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1980 ‘The Shot’ leads Carroll to victory in Flyers Cup
March 27, 1980 Archbishop Carroll High’s hockey team won the Flyers Cup last night. FINALLY! After three years of season-ending injuries, fights, suspensions, withdrawals and assorted problems, Carroll finally proved it is the best high school hockey team in the area. With Scott (The Shot) Chamness scoring his fourth “hat trick” in the four-game series,…
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1979 William Tennent wants ice hockey title
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…
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1979 Malvern Prep stuns Tennent icemen by 6-5 score
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…
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1978 Carroll edges Tennent in regional hockey play
April 4, 1978 Archbishop Carroll Patriots, Eastern Pennsylvania Regional Hockey Tournament Champions It was a rough day for William Tennent’s ice hockey team in Pennsylvania High School Eastern Regional playoffs at the Face-Off Circle in Warminster on Saturday afternoon. The Panthers came ever so close to knocking off Inter-County League powerhouse Archbishop Carroll but lost…
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1978 Eastern Regional Hockey Tournament
March 21, 1978 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…
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1980 New day for school hockey: Flyers Cup Tournament
Wednesday January 30, 1980 Original Source / Philadelphia Inquirer – Don McKee The Flyers yesterday elevated scholastic hockey in the area to a position of public visibility equal to or greater than any other high school sport. At a news conference at the Spectrum, Flyers executive vice president Bob Butera announced the creation of the…
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1982 Flyers Cup Tournament – Brothers team up as hockey all-stars
Sunday, April 11, 1982 The outstanding brother goaltending combination of Joe and Michael Richter heads the sixth Inquirer all-Southeastern Pennsylvania hockey team. The Richters helped Germantown Academy to the Flyers Cup and a 28-1 record this past season. They were aided by J.J. Reydel and defenseman Charley Wurts, who also are honored today as part…
