Rangers vs Maple Leafs 1959 Brawl

[IJustWatchEm71]

Headlocks? Going into the stands? This one had EVERYTHING!

[Crackers2549]

Eddie the "ENTERTAINER" He was something!.. First pro player I saw live 62-63 season he came out first for the warm up! He was playing for the Leafs vs. Hawks... Hawks won the game 6 to 0, Bobby Hull scored a hat trick..Awesome, remember it like yesterday!

[57slingblade]

Thank You for the uploads. I especially enjoy the old stuff. Is this public domain, is video available of these?

[Marsdevilsvolta]

2:13 look at that elbow! nice right before they are going into the stands.

[OHLAlumniCentral]

Even with the crappy quality and the jersey's pulled off, you tell which one's Shack by the big honking nose!

[RPULTZ69]

Those were the good old days

[altfactor]

Back then, CBC's "Hockey Night In Canada" would go on the air at 9 P.M. EST during the regular season, in-time for the start of the second period.

Only during the playoffs would HNIC come-on for the opening faceoff.

I don't think Rangers games were televised locally in New York that year. WOR-TV (later WWOR) began picking up some Saturday away games a few years later.

Was this Foster Hewitt on play-by--play or his son Bill??

[toonguy85]

@altfactor: The Toronto play-by-play was done by Foster's son Bill through the 1960s, until he retired in the early 1980s.

[johnh23]

@altfactor HNIC came on at 8.30 pm ... usually you;d see the last few mins. of the first.

[reg5381]

lou fontinato?wow.his picture on life magazine after the howe fight,sold a lot of magazines.

[kornered8]

holy shit this is awesome

[MrNomad81]

A couple years ago I was at a leafs game at the acc and some dumbass yank started talking shit about the leafs which progressed to him talking about canada which result in a bloody face for him.... good times

[classicNHLfights]

@MrNomad81 -- yeah right... a bloody face for you is more believable

[rb62470]

I thought I had seen a Rangers clip from the 60's in which they were wearing blue at home, and here there is no doubt that the Leafs are wearing blue at home. I was under the impression that until just a few years ago the home teams always wore white. Can somebody give me a sort of timeline for when the teams wore colored/white jerseys at home/away?

[germxv]

@rb62470 originally it was the home team that wore colors. i think the nhl went to home team wearing white in the mid 60s. then i guess about 5 years ago the nhl went back to the original idea of home team wearing colors again.

[rb62470]

@germxv Thanks for the reply. I left a similar comment on another 50's/early 60's NHL video, and somebody told me they started wearing white at home in '71 but didn't mention when they went back to wearing colors at home...Then just a few days ago, on a Ron Duguay bio on tv, I saw a late 70's clip of the Rangers in blue playing the Penguins in yellow, so I guess there were exceptions here and there along the way.

[gillesgariepy]

Sa carrière prend fin un soir de mars 1963 à l'âge de 31 ans sur une mise en échec de Vic Hatfield de son ancienne équipe des Rangers.2 Il se blesse au cou et demeurera paralysé pendant un mois. Plus jamais il ne rejouera dans la LNH.3

[gillesgariepy]

Louis « Leapin' Louie » Fontinato né le 20 janvier 1932 à Guelph dans l'Ontario au Canada.

[TeamUnReel]

UncleMikeNJ- I was looking for the same fight, Lou is my grandfather. The fight has been preserved, I seen it years back. I cant believe its not up here! Did you know Gordie had broken ribs after that fight and that Lou had already broke his nose 6 previous times. There was nothing left to break just looked like a murder from all the blood!

[trigger575707]

WHOA frank mahovlich is my uncle i didnt know he was in this, he even called my house lastnight what a coinsidence

[Forsure3333]

Frank was one of my favorites when he was playing for the Canadiens!

[trigger575707]

yes habs r the best, its to bad i wasnt around when he played hockey.

[Forsure3333]

There are at least a few complete games on DVD that you can watch. :) It was fun to see Frank playing with Pete. Everybody here in Quebec LOVED them.

[jtoshawa]

@trigger575707 Your uncle was one helluva hockey player!! The game misses players like Frankie!!

[ffairlane57]

There's Sean Avery vs. Darcy Tucker in there somehwere.

[gcdcjccc]

wow. that is just great footage. very rare stuff

[boogerguys]

wow! black and white!!

[Milhouse224]

Notice how they all dropped their gloves right off the bat instead of leaving them on and facewashing guys?

I went to the fights and a hockey game broke out, gotta love it.

[SilexFeminaDeus]

Amazing to see this footage. Schack baby Schack! Wish I was alive to see those games. This is awesome stuff, Thanks!

[UncleMikeNJ]

Is this the earliest preserved-from-TV NHL fight? I know there was a 1959 fight where Gordie Howe turned Lou Fontinato's nose into a crescent moon at the old Madison Square Garden, which is what I was looking for when I found this.  I guess that one wasn't preserved.

[dougat]

It went into overtime, they're still playing!

[123torrent]

Wow, early Shack on the Rangers before the Leafs days!! Rare footage.