e-branch
Login
My List - 0
Help
Home
My Account/Renew Loans
Community Info
KidSearch
New Catalogue!
Search
Advanced
By Format
By Number
My Searches
Can't Find it?
Find Magazine Articles & more
Problems?
Search:
Call Number
Item Barcode
Bib Number
ISBN/ISSN
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Halifax Public Libraries
Item Information
Copy / Holding Information
More Content
More by this author
Naworynski, P. J.
Subjects
Olympic Winter Games (5th : 1948 : Saint Moritz, Switzerland)
Hockey teams -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.
Hockey players -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.
Veterans -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Naworynski, P. J.
by title:
Against all odds : t...
by call number:
796.96266 N328a
Search the Web
Naworynski, P. J.
Olympic Winter Games (5th : 1948 : Saint Moritz, Switzerland)
Hockey teams -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.
Hockey players -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.
Veterans -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.
MARC Display
Against all odds : the untold story of Canada's unlikely hockey heroes / P.J. Naworynski.
by
Naworynski, P. J.
Collins, 2017.
Call #:
796
.96266
N328a
Subjects
Olympic Winter Games (5th : 1948 : Saint Moritz, Switzerland)
Hockey teams -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.
Hockey players -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.
Veterans -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9781443450904 (pbk.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
327 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
The announcement was shocking - Canada, the birthplace of hockey, would not be sending a team to the 1948 Winter Olympics in Switzerland. Outraged, a Royal Canadian Air Force squadron leader, Sandy Watson, quickly assembled a team of air force hockey players who were "amateur enough" to complete under the Olympic guidelines. Sergeant Frank Boucher was recruited to coach the team and begin the cross-Canada search for players. Hubert Brooks, a decorated flying officer and serial escapist from POW camps, was another early recruit. Andy Gilpin joined from the RCAF base in Whitehorse, as did airmen from Quebec, the Maritimes and western Canada. And when their starting goalie, Dick Ball, didn't pass a medical exam, Murray Dowey was called up from his job as a TTC driver and occasional practice goalie for the Toronto Maple Leafs. The ragtag team got off to a rough start, losing so many exhibition games that Canadian newspapers called them a disgrace to the country. But the RCAF Flyers battled back, and Boucher's defensive strategy paid off. They eliminated the American team, tied the Czech team and beat the Swiss as the hometown crowd pelted the Canadians with snowballs during the game. On the same ice where Barbara Ann Scott won a gold medal, the underdog RCAF Flyers also won Olympic gold, and their goalie, Murray Dowey, set an Olympic record that still stands.
Holds:
0
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Item type
Status
Central Library
Adult Nonfiction
796.96266 N328a
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Central Library
Adult Nonfiction
796.96266 N328a
Adult books
Not Available
Add Copy to MyList
Sackville Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
796.96266 N328a
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.