Ice hockey at the 1936 Winter Olympics
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 107 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5082-8817-4
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! At the 1936 Winter Olympics, in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Great Britain pulled off a what was seen as a major upset when they won the men's ice hockey competition. Previously, the British team had finished third (1924), and fourth (1928) but with teams that were, "largely composed of Canadian Army officers and university graduates living in the U.K." It was decided that their team must be British-born this time, and while only one player on the team was born in Canada, nine of the thirteen players on the roster grew up in Canada, and eleven had played previously in Canada. The CAHA, upon discovering that the rosters of the British and French teams were made up of primarily Canadians, whom they believed were ineligible, lodged a protest, and suspended the players in question. As a result, the IIHF voted unanimously to ban Alex Archer and James Foster, however before tournament play began, Canada withdrew their protest. Still unhappy with the...