Oliver Club Juniors Championship Hockey Team, Hibbing, Minnesota. 1926-27. The only team to play a whole season in sub-zero temperatures. Legend says once the season ended they froze stiff to the pond. They still thaw out enough to play if you head up to Hibbing around first freeze.

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From January 14 to February 20, 1924, the St. Thomas Stripes scrimmaged for 674 consecutive hours. Said center Paul "Zonk" McCall, "We'll only stop for hot chocolate and hail marys."

The "Skatin' Kates" barnstorming hockey team. Traveled the North Country by dogsled and toboggan, taking on all challengers during the winter of 1925. They left behind a trail of broken hearts and dented twine.

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Rosie "Brick Wall" Boucher. Famed goaltender of the Skatin' Kates. Legend has it that "Brick Wall" ran for a time with bank-robbing duo Bonnie and Clyde but decided to use her talents to rob goals instead of banks.

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Ernie, Art, Rocky, and Ray Rinkrat. Legendary family played so much pond hockey that their name is now synonymous with long hours on the outdoor rink.

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George "Concrete" Conroy, 1931. A stonemason by trade, he possessed the softest hands on the pond. "Concrete" could peel a tomato with the blade of his stick.

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Jack "Coiffed" Connelly. Had a nose for the net and hair for the smart set. "Coiffed" always played with a comb in his breezers. 1923

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St. Paul vs. Minneapolis for the 1925 Kiwanians National Convention Cup at Mpls. Arena -- "Coiffed goes inside." Comparable to Bob Dylan's "going electric" at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, Jack "Coiffed" Connelly shocked and divided the pond hockey world by crossing over and playing a game inside an arena.

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The Pepper Brothers--Pip, Pep, and Pop, practicing the infamous "Pepper Pond Power Play." Note: Horse-drawn Zamboni in background.

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1910 Cloquet prep school boys team, the "University Sleuths." Featuring Will Aguirre (front row, second from right) the youngest coach of a prep-school league champion, aged 10 years, 3 months, and 4 days.

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1926 President's Pond Cup title match, Edison High vs. Roosevelt High at Logan Park, Minneapolis, Minnesota. The first pond hockey game played under "Edison's Folly," also known as the light bulb.

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West high goalie Rocky "Red Light" Thompson during shooting practice. After he took one on the chin, the "no lifting" rule was instated forevermore in pond hockey play.