First hockey game in Toronto history
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This just can't be right
". In a letter to the editor dated Dec. 27, 1862, a citizen noted “When the ice is good there is always a crowd upon the Don River” but a problem had arisen with “young rowdies who annoy any persons, who by their respectable appearance may excite their malice by tripping them up, scoffing and jeering. Upon remonstrance being made, they will fall upon the party and beat him unmercifully with their shinty sticks.”
The writer urged a police presence at future games."
Young people back then were so much "better" than kids today.
". In a letter to the editor dated Dec. 27, 1862, a citizen noted “When the ice is good there is always a crowd upon the Don River” but a problem had arisen with “young rowdies who annoy any persons, who by their respectable appearance may excite their malice by tripping them up, scoffing and jeering. Upon remonstrance being made, they will fall upon the party and beat him unmercifully with their shinty sticks.”
The writer urged a police presence at future games."
Young people back then were so much "better" than kids today.