1953 Vancouver Old Timers Game Program
I picked up this fantastic old program at an antique shop in New Wesminster, BC recently. The cover pictures all-time Toronto Maple Leaf goaltending great, Turk Broda. The program is from a hockey old-timers benefit game held at the Vancouver, PNE Forum arena, a game that featured many stars of yesteryear. The game was presented by the British Columbia Benevolent Hockey Association and was meant to raise funds for ex-players in need. Featuring the likes of Broda, Babe Pratt, Lorne Carr, Sweeney Schriner, Jack Adams, Tiny Tompson, coached by Frank Fredrickson and Lester Patrick and officiated by Cyclone Taylor and Duke Keats, the game promised to be a star-studded affair. The Victoria Daily Colonist of March 5, 1953 detailed the match as follows. "Yesterday's hockey greats sparkled with some old-time brilliance in Vancouver Forum Tuesday to provide a tomorrow for a fellow player stricken with polio. More than 6,000 fans shoe-horned into the rink at $1 each watch the third annu...