Team of Blind Play Hockey in Canada
TORONTO.—Although the majority of persons believe that sight is an absolute essential before learning to play hockey, the lads at the Ontario School for the Blind have proved that it is possible to play hockey—good hockey—even when the players are ’sightless. For the last two years hockey has been played on the school rink, but this year with the help of the weather it became a major sport, along with skating. For the teams of boys who are totally blind, a tin can is used for a puck, the players following the rattle of the can almost as surely as a seeing player follows the puck with his eyes. They dash along their rink, which is 100 by 75 feet, very capably, and their game is very exciting. 'Their coach is Jean St. Jean of Ottawa, who played hockey with the La Salle team before he lost his sight.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 132, 7 June 1938, Page 3
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156Team of Blind Play Hockey in Canada Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 132, 7 June 1938, Page 3
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