Monday, August 22, 2022

Soviet Tour of the Eastern Hockey League December 1963.

In December 2020, I posted to our EHL Facebook group day-by-day newspaper articles from the home cities of a 6-city Soviet Tour of the Eastern Hockey League (EHL) which occurred 57 years earlier in December 1963. The dates listed are the newspaper dates, so the games were the prior day. There is a lot of prelim, so if you want to read just about the games, then start at "Day 21".

Nashville Dixie Flyers Norm Ryder Checks Russian Veniamin Alexandrov, Dec 25, 1963
from The Tennessean Dec 26, 1963

The results of the series were:
Dec 17, 1963 Soviets 12 at Greensboro Generals 3
Dec 18, 1963
Soviets 6 at Charlotte Checkers 3
Dec 20, 1963
Soviets 12 at Philadelphia Ramblers 2
Dec 21, 1963
Soviets 9 at Johnstown Jets 6
Dec 22, 1963 Soviets 4 at Knoxville Knights 4
Dec 25, 1963
Soviets 4 at Nashville Dixie Flyers 1

The following month, January 1964 a team of EHL All-Stars made a tour of Russia. The next blog will cover those articles.

Day 1: Jan-Oct 1963 Articles
Day 2: Nov 1963 Articles
Day 3: Nov 30, 1963
Day 4: Dec 1, 1963
Day 5: Dec 2, 1963
Day 6: Dec 3, 1963
Day 7: Dec 4, 1963
Day 8: Dec 5, 1963
Day 9: Dec 6, 1963
Day 10: Dec 7, 1963
Day 11: Dec 8, 1963
Day 12: Dec 9, 1963
Day 13: Dec 10, 1963
Day 14: Dec 11, 1963
Day 15: Dec 12, 1963
Day 16: Dec 13, 1963
Day 17: Dec 14, 1963
Day 18: Dec 15, 1963
Day 19: Dec 16, 1963
Day 20: Dec 17, 1963
Day 21: Dec 18, 1963 Soviets 12 at Greensboro Generals 3
Day 22: Dec 19, 1963 Soviets 6 at Charlotte Checkers 3
Day 23: Dec 20, 1963
Day 24: Dec 21, 1963 Soviets 12 at Philadelphia Ramblers 2
Day 25: Dec 22, 1963 Soviets 9 at Johnstown Jets 6
Day 26: Dec 23, 1963 Soviets 4 at Knoxville Knights 4
Day 27: Dec 24, 1963
Day 28: Dec 25, 1963
Day 29: Dec 26, 1963 Soviets 4 at Nashville Dixie Flyers 1
Day 30: Dec 27-31, 1963 Soviets 5 U of Denver 0, Soviets 6 U of Denver 3
https://www.facebook.com/groups/129103506589/posts/10158587701176590/


As I've stated elsewhere, once the EHL Facebook group got going (Currently 3300+ members and growing), there's not a whole lot of need to "blog", since I usually do continuous posting there. But sometimes like this the blog format is a lot cleaner than trying to search Facebook.

Enjoy!
Tom Telaar
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