SD70DudeThe only thing I remember about field hockey (we played it for one day in high school phys-ed)
I also have only played one game of field hockey, also in a High School PE class.
The kids that moved down from up North had their day. Good for them.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Horse hockey! (Also known as 'puckey' which may have some tie-in with more familiar hockey...)
In the 1970s, field hockey was THE pre-eminent girl's varsity sport at the la-di-dah schools I attended. If it was a boy's sport somewhere, we certainly didn't hear of it.
A parody song about the club next to Cottage, which had a 'certain type' of sportswomen in it, sung to the tune of Billy Joel's "Still Rock and Roll to Me", contained the memorable lyric "too stocky, no knockies, field hockey, real cocky, still Cap and Gown to me" -- there, too, it was decidedly NOT a male sport.
On the other hand, it was not a prim and proper Miss Florence's Dancing School sort of gameplay, either. No Highlanders going into battle kilted were more aggressive than our high-school girls in skirts. You would never guess from their normal deportment what warrior spirit lurked within.
We called the other kind of hockey "street hockey" and it was the proletarian version of a beastly game played by gentlemen. I would have had no place in a typical street hockey game in any of the communities in the northern New Jersey area. Strangely, in the days before inline skates became common, I do not remember whether the games were played skated or on foot.
doctorwaynemust be dozens more, too.
Lastspikemike You guys can be so funny at times. Floot hockey is for kids. ...
You guys can be so funny at times.
Floot hockey is for kids.
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Your range of experience is showing. That version of hockey is very popular in the Armed Forces as a form of morning PT.
Lastspikemike doctorwayne Lastspikemike Is there another type of hockey? Wayne I never knew that.
doctorwayne
Lastspikemike
Is there another type of hockey?
selectorYour range of experience is showing. That version of hockey is very popular in the Armed Forces as a form of morning PT.
I played my last floor hockey game at 49 while peace-keeping in Bosnia-Herzegovina. This would be about May, 2001. The average age of the players was probably 29-33 as a guess.
I scored twice.
Well, it's been more than a few days, but here is a link to a scanned 1941 CPR tonnage ratings book (sent to me by a friend who is good at finding these sort of things).
https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/chung/chungtext/items/1.0356958
While CP's engines are rated in % in the book, it does not appear as though that notation was ever written on the locomotive's exterior.
Tonnage ratings for the Kettle Valley Division are found starting on page 53 of the book, which is on page 28 of the scan. Note that even the largest engines used there are only rated for less than 700 tons out of Pentiction, this area having grades approaching 2.5% in both directions out of the Okanagan valley.
Being from 1941, this book is from before the CPR started purchasing diesels. But if the % rating system saw continued use it is quite possible that a 3 or 4 unit set of diesel electrics (perhaps considered a single locomotive) would be rated in the 200 or 300% range.
Did CP renumber any of their remaining steam locomotives to make way for the large numbers of new diesels? Multiple other railroads (including CN) did this.
Greetings from Alberta
-an Articulate Malcontent
LastspikemikeIs there another type of hockey?
Field Hockey, floor hockey.