(above) Legendary DU Coach Murray Armstrong won five National Championships. Also in photo Tom Zajac (foreground) and Lindsay Thomson (background)
(above) A Russian player is helped to the locker room during DU's 4-4 tie on Jan. 10, 1959
(above) The DU ice hockey team poses for a portrait around a Packard automobile at Reed Auto Sales on 5901 E. Colfax Ave in Denver. All team members wear uniforms that read: "Tom Reed Auto Sales."
(above) Craig Patrick, Tom Miller, Keith Magnuson & Tim Gould celebrate DU's second straight National Championship in 1969The University of Denver's Media Relations is is in the process of digitizing its old athletics photos in the Special Collections Department for use on the internet. Check out the link to see dozens more hockey photos.
Note – Some of the attributions are vague and/or contain errors, but many of the captions can probably be updated with the help of the DU Media Guide and other sources.
The photographs were compiled from several sources including the records of the Division of Athletics and Recreation held by the University of Denver Special Collections and Archives. The following image book is a compilation of the University of Denver Men's Ice Hockey photographs and will be added to over time.Needless to say this is going to be a "Boone" to DU and college hockey buffs.
Note – Some of the attributions are vague and/or contain errors, but many of the captions can probably be updated with the help of the DU Media Guide and other sources.
6 comments:
I love that shot of Murray with the rainbow behind him! Talk about incongruity.
Thanks go out to one of our readers for finding the link and emailling it to us
If you look at the site that this image book came from, you'd see that they're not just doing hockey, they're doing every DU sport... they are probably not taking the time for painstakingly researched descriptions on every image, so that they can get more out for the public to see.
Also, I'm sure that one of the Russian game was the 1958-59 one which ended in a 4-4 tie.
Thanks for the corrections & comments. I've edited the caption below the photo.
Several folks called or emailed me today about the photos, so there is keen interest in the photo collection.
What great memories. Didnt Lindsay Thompson have a booming slapshot? Am I remembering correctly?
8:28 you are correct about Lindsay Thomson having a big slap shot. He also was an excellent skater and had a pretty good wrister when he charged the net. He was an offensive d-man in the true sense of the notion.
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