Thank You Terry: Breakout Past: La Vie of Penn State Hockey (Part III)

"I felt we made a mistake in building a baseball field. I thought that should have been the ice skating rink, because I think hockey in this state right now, not just hockey, but ice skating, if you come up to our office building at 6:00 in the morning, some mornings you can't get a parking spot because parents have taken their kids up here to skate...I think hockey will be a great addition to our intercollegiate program. [The Pegula gift] is a great, great gift. And I think very far-sighted and I'm really pleased with it." - Joe Paterno

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Breakout Past: La Vie of Penn State Hockey (Part III)

Last July, after getting the chance to read through La Vie archives, I made a couple posts that attempted to reconcile Penn State's yearbook records with the Daily Collegian archives to construct as complete of a schedule as possible for PSU's original varsity team. I also included the text of everything said about the teams in those yearbooks.

Breakout Past: La Vie of Penn State Hockey (Part I)
Breakout Past: La Vie of Penn State Hockey (Part II)

There was one thing missing from those posts though: the pictures. Thankfully, that omission has now been resolved, thanks to the discovery of digital La Vie archives maintained by University Libraries. Enjoy (and click to enlarge).

1939-1940 team photo: