Boston Bruins honoring Travis Roy with TR24 helmet emblem Share Updated: 10:59 AM EST Jan 13, 2021
Boston Bruins honoring Travis Roy with TR24 helmet emblem Share Updated: 10:59 AM EST Jan 13, 2021
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Boston Bruins to honor Maine native Travis Roy with helmet emblem during 20- 21 season
Roy played hockey for North Yarmouth Academy and later for Boston University. He died on October 29, 2020. Author: Chris Costa (NEWS CENTER Maine) Published: 11:20 AM EST January 13, 2021 Updated: 6:29 PM EST January 13, 2021
PORTLAND, Maine The Boston Bruins, Boston University, and North Yarmouth Academy hockey teams will honor Maine native Travis Roy with a helmet emblem during the 2020-2021 season.
Roy, who played hockey for North Yarmouth Academy and later for Boston University, died on October 29, 2020 in Burlington, Vermont. The BU men s and women s ice hockey teams will also wear the emblem: a sticker that reads TR24, the number he wore with the Terriers.
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In 1981, when the Jefferson Prep Patriots won the Class A State football championship with a 14-7 win over Lewisville, one of the biggest, strongest, toughest players on the team was a lineman named Buck James.
“I thought I was strong,” he recalled recently. “I thought I was tough. But I found out I wasn’t.”
James explained, “When I went to high school, the weight room was not a priority. When I went to college to play (at the University of Arkansas at Monticello), I thought the world was blue or green when I was on the football field because I was either looking at the sky or the ground. Because I got whipped. Because I wasn’t physically strong as those guys that came from Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi and came from good programs.
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