Old time hockey fact: The reason the red line is dashed or dotted rather than solid is so that viewers watching on black and white tvs back in the day could tell the difference between the blue and red lines.
Thanks for sharing. My father used to talk about "dirty" Red Horner. Dad was born in 1921 so I can imagine him listening to the radio and enjoying this game in 1933. Happy 100 this year Dad.
In the winter of 1898, a group of ice hockey enthusiasts suited up for an outdoor game in West Orange, New Jersey. The frozen surface of Crystal Lake served as the venue for the match, which featured at least a dozen players. One spectator of note was also in attendance at the game: cinematographer William Heise, who was employed by inventor Thomas Edison’s nearby film production studio. On that day, the studio’s film equipment was hauled to the lake, where Heise and the group of skaters unassumingly made hockey history.
😲 These guys making low salary, wearing no helmet, little pads, and skates were like wearing old converse sneakers with dull blades, respect goes out to those players.
They didnt fall on the ice, fake being an assault victim and hoping their nose is bloody to get their team a 4 minute power play. They got up and put their sticks up and handled things like men.
It always strikes me how well they skate, when I see old films like these, considering the soft and unsupportive boots they had in those day's. Mad respect!
I've seen old footage for a long time now and this is the first really old stuff that didn't look slow. The game looked very fast and reckless. Can't believe helmets weren't a thing.
meh, boxing was the most popular sport in the US at the time, so a few knocks from hockey wasn't considered too bad. and it still wasn't as fast as it is now - and it was harder to lift the puck because sticks didn't have any curve - so not as dangerous as like the 50s/60s onwards
@@iansteelmatheson not sure when it changed but at one point a forward pass was illegal. I can't even process that. Game is a billion times better now than this but was just shocked at how reckless it looked. Guys just flying around into each other with such thin equipment and no helmets. They were definitely tough for sure.
This was EXCELLENT to see! What I love most about this footage is that it proves that while the game has definitely changed a bunch over the past century, its still fundamentally the same game. This in turn proves that ice hockey was excellent sports entertainment right out of the box. If someone from the 1930s were to be transported forward in time to the present day, they'd be able to get into the groove of modern ice hockey with minimal confusion.
For sure, I was better at other sports as a kid but when my buddies and I talked about our favorite sport to play, it was hockey for me. I felt it had all the fascist of having a good time.
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Today’s hockey is just a more futuristic version. It’s interesting to imagine how the sport will evolve over the next 100 years. Hopefully they’ll replace refs with robots 🤖
Your comment is 2 years old and just this month Jagr is still playing pro and became the oldest pro hockey player in history and he's still putting up points. Absolute living legend.
Kaiden Dove, atta boy. I live out in Alberta and had to talk a couple Leafs fans off the ledge a few weeks ago. They said how can you be so optimistic, told them being a Caps fan I know all kinds of playoff pain through the years.
This was an incredible watch. There may not be anything more badass than Rangers goalie Andy Aitkenhead wearing that cap during the game. Incredible compilation. Thank you for posting this.
That narrator totally blew the pronunciation of your grandfather's name! I've known about your grandfather my whole life even though he retired years before I was born. He was a great one and played his whole career for the Rangers.
Back then that brawl probably had a total of 10 PIMs. There were a few guys in the 1940s and 1950s with over 100 PIMs in a season...I shudder to think how many people they had to actually murder to get to that mark.
This is quite honestly one of the coolest videos I've EVER seen. Toronto when MLG was only 2 years old, Toronto when they played in Mutual Street... FOSTER HEWITT *Mind blown* Thank you!
True, but the money to put these events on has to come from somewhere. Nobody’s doing it for free. The players have to paid, the referees have to be paid, the electricity has to be paid for, upkeep of the arena has to be paid for, the network and their employees need to be paid, because they have to eat and pay for electricity and housing. They don’t plaster ads up there just to ruin your day..
Damn, that was the quickest 7 minutes ever. Left me hungry for more... please???? And why on earth did RU-vid wait all this time to recommend this channel? Great content!
@Calvin Ilkay He (Foster Hewitt) called the Paul Henderson winning goal against the Russians in the 72 Summit series 39 years later. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lMf2fAXPS1Q.html
Agreed but at the same time it's kind of amazing how well they move and play, especially considering the quality of the skates and ice had to be really bad compared to today's game
@@EmailBaconthe technique advanced directly because of the equipment. The technique back then would have been the same as today if they had the same equipment as today lol. Why tf are people so stupid these days that they think human beings in the past just didn’t know any better 🤦♂️.
That's actually legendary, seeing such legends play. When I heard the announcer say "Joliat" I almost lost it. Can you imagine? Back then, Aurel Joliat was today's McDavid or Matthews. Georges Vézina was today's Vasilevskiy or Price and being able to see footage from almost 100 years ago now and seeing those legends play is truly fabulous.
I thought that sounded like Foster Hewitt at first and then it showed him. My God he was young. I guess it was the early thirties. These videos go back a long way showing some of the great stars. Thanks for uploading this.
Nowadays we witness idiot fans taunting players behind the protection of acrylic. My dad told me that back in the day (30's & 40's), fans risked getting the butt-end of a player's stick in their face for that kind of nonsense.
I played in four different rinks over the years that had chain link fence at the ends of the rink. Along the sides, nothing but boards. In three of the rinks, all "Icelands" (Belmont, Fremont and Berkeley, CA), the boards only came up to just below the hip. It was not uncommon to get knocked over the boards and into the laps of spectators. The only bad things about the fencing was the dead rebounds, and the possibility of snagging something (your sweater, or your lip) as you rubbed along it. And though most of the folks in CA were wearing helmets at that time, I wasn't unless a particular league mandated them. Helmets weren't mandatory yet for officials, and I didn't start wearing one until about '92. I had to officiate a game between UC-Berkeley and Fresno State by myself one night when the other two officials didn't make it to the rink. That rink was like a frozen football field, and dark as hell. The icing on top (no pun intended) was when two players collided with me and broke my whistle.
The TV announcer was Foster Hewitt. I remember hearing him call Leafs games in the 1960's for Hockey Night in Canada. I never realized he had started calling games in the 1930's. I can still hear his voice when he'd sign in.
I remember the Don Cherry story. Apparently, when he was playing, his coach was the notorious enforcer Eddy Shore. Cherry and this guy, did not get along whatsoever. Cherry made a comment about Shore no longer being able to live up to the tough guy image. Shore gets up, clocks Cherry right in the head, sits down and acts like it never happened. Shore was the real deal
That was superb. Thanks for posting. I knew a man who actually played against Howie Morenz when Morenz played for Stratford and Ed Hyllier played for New Hamburg. He said Morenz was hard to play against. Pretty neat to see these forgotten players like King Clancy, Red Horner on the ice. It is also funny to hear the English take on the game. I think the narrator called the puck a ball at one point. Like I said, superb, and thank you.
" The fans are standing up to them! The security guards are standing up to them! The peanut vendors are standing up to them! And by golly, if I could get down there, I'd be standing up to them!"
That was great, thanks for sharing. I was surprised to see both the fast pace and how little checking there was. Also is the goalie wearing a bloke hat at 2:51? Outstanding!
Wonderful historical footage for serious hockey fans. I'd like to see all this great footage digitally restored with speed correction and colorized as well.
Great video of old time hockey! They were athletes even then. And it is amazing to me that there was just one sports and news announcer for the entirety of the 20s, 30s, and 40s! He even learned French for part of this video! That guy was busy!
@@dustinwillis3261 maybe but there are more Quebecois on the Lighting than on Les Canadiens so we still ,as Canadians and Quebecers win in a way. You Americans couldn’t win without our boys. Lol
Thank you for this pictures! I'm an Icehockey-Fan from Münster / Germany. I love Düsseldorfer EG and the Maple Leafs! I can't believe that the players played once without any Protection. Ore do they got one in 1925, 1932 Ore 1898? Greetings from Münster!
Unbelievable that the goalie (and everyone else) was so completely unprotected. How did these guys have the guts to go out there in the days before helmets and face masks? Those pucks flying at you are lethal weapons!
Great video! It's wonderful to hear some pretty famous names and see the differences in the game back then. It would great if someone could clear up the old films to make it clearer and to the correct pace. As well a full colourization would really bring the scenes to life but it's expensive when done properly.
I genuinely ask you why? We don't have to get carried away with them sure but sponsors are throughout every league from tball and mini mite to pros. That's how we're here today.
I remember my dad telling me stories how grandpa used to take him to see the red wings play back in the 1930's and 1940's. Sometimes I wish their was a time machine so I can go back and join them.
Well, lad, I was about your age when they actually won the STANLEY CUP way back in 1967. Maybe when you're my age (I turned 60 last week), they just might make it to the semi-finals. But I wouldn't want to set you up for disappointment by encouraging a child to have false hope..
@@greganderson4547 They didn't have every inch of their bodies protected by hi-tech equipment, and they travelled long distances between games by train or bus. You can bet they didn't sleep in the palaces players stay in today, too. There weren't anywhere near the number of rules back then; the game was much dirtier as there was no tv or video to second guess a ref or to show spectators what was really going on at ice level.
@@greganderson4547 Your comment makes no sense. It was the same degree of difficulty for every team so therefore it was just as hard for every team. Don't forget the basic rule - difficulty is a relative thing.
@@greganderson4547 that means talent is not diluted and those 6 teams are best of best. Can you imagine having 6 teams chose from all NHL players today until they form their team and tell everyone else to go home. You will have 6 near all star teams playing in a tournament.
just because of the microphones back then, they were picking up a different frequency in the voice ( if we can call it that) than the ones we have now.
this is as old time hockey as you can get. kinda reminds me of us playing high school hockey in the 60's but we did have these little leather helmets that didn't even cover the top of your heads, it was all good though, we loved it.
@@mimicotom At 1:45 in the film, on the GWG by New York, that sure looks like a forward pass by the Rangers in their zone. Anyhow...ourhistory.canadiens.com/rules/1910-1930 "After a complete season with forward passes allowed in the neutral and defensive zones, the league moves forward in its makeover. In 1929-1930, forward passes are finally allowed in the offensive zone, changing forever the way hockey is played. On the other hand, no passes were yet allowed across either blue line."