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Tuesday 5 March 2019
Fast food at White House for North Dakota football champs

WASHINGTON (AP) — The ary. He said he personally
smell of burgers and fries paid for that meal because
wafted through the State much of the staff in the
Dining Room as President White House residence had
Donald Trump celebrated been furloughed by a gov-
the championship football ernment shutdown.
players from North Dako- The Bison, who have the
ta State on Monday with most titles in the NCAA Foot-
fast food, like he did when ball Championship Subdivi-
he honored the national sion, ended the season on
champion Clemson Tigers. Jan. 5 with a 38-24 win over
Trump told the football Eastern Washington Univer-
team he could have had sity. Quarterback Easton
White House chefs prepare Stick threw five touchdown
a meal, but “I know you passes, including two to
people very well.” Darrius Shepherd, who was
The players laughed with named Most Outstanding
the president while eye- Player with five catches
ing stacks of Big Macs and and 125 yards.
Chick-fil-A sandwiches on a It was the Bison’s seventh
long table in the center of national title in eight years.
the room. A side table was “When you play with pas-
piled with bags of french President Donald Trump welcomes 2018 NCAA FCS College Football Champions, The North Dakota sion and love ... and relent-
fries, kept warm under a State Bison, to the White House in Washington, Monday, March 4, 2019. lessly reach for excellence,
light. Associated Press nothing is impossible,”
Trump served a similar spread that included hun- dreds of hamburgers to Clemson’s players in Janu- Trump said.q

Ted Lindsay was previously called the Montreal in Game 2 of the

Lester B. Pearson Award Stanley Cup Final.
Continued from Page 17 after the former Canadian During his 14 seasons in
prime minister. Detroit, he led the team in
The player known as “Ter- “On the ice, Ted Lindsay goals only once. He led or
rible Ted” was one of the was one of the best players tied for the team lead in
game’s best left wings and to ever to put on a pair of penalty minutes 10 times,
an 11-time All-Star who skates,” NHLPA executive including his final season of
played on four Stanley Cup director Don Fehr said. “But 1964-65, when he was ap-
winners in the early 1950s. his greatest legacy was off proaching 40 years old.
Lindsay, Sid Abel and the ice. A true trailblazer in Former Bruins player Milt
Gordie Howe formed an seeking to improve condi- Schmidt said Lindsay “prob-
offensive juggernaut of a tions for all players, Ted was ably was one of the most
line that helped make De- instrumental in organizing hated players in the Na-
troit one of the first of the the original players’ asso- tional Hockey League” be-
NHL’s great postwar dynas- just taking care of my fans ful of players in New York ciation in 1957. All players, cause of the way he came
ties and they had a fitting that paid our salary.” in 1957. The next day, Red past, current and future, after other teams.
nickname in the Motor City. Lindsay took his toughness Wings general manager are in his debt. All those “But every franchise would
He finished his NHL career off the ice to organize a Jack Adams was very an- who have, and will follow have given their right arm
with 379 goals and 472 as- players’ union despite op- gry about it. him into the NHL, enjoy im- for Ted Lindsay,” he said.
sists in 1,068 games with 14 position from team execu- “He was ranting and rav- proved rights and benefits Lindsay retired following
of his 17 seasons with De- tives and without the sup- ing,” Lindsay recalled in in large part due to the ef- the 1959-60 season and
troit. With Howe and Lind- port of Howe, perhaps the an interview with the NHL- forts he made.” focused on his automotive
say centered first by Abel most famous hockey play- PA . “But, I’d do the same “That’s amazing,” Edmon- business. He came back
and then by Al Delvecchio, er of all. Lindsay pressed on thing.” ton star Connor McDavid for one more season with
the Red Wings won Stanley anyway without the back- Lindsay, who was named said as news of Lindsay’s the Red Wings in 1964-65
Cups in 1950, 1952, 1954 ing of “Mr. Hockey.” president of the short-lived death filtered out. “That and returned to Detroit as
and 1955. The Red Wings “All of us who were in- union, was traded to Chi- just goes to show what general manager in 1977
retired his No. 7 in 1991. volved in trying to estab- cago the next summer. he’s about and he was not and remained in that role
Lindsay is credited with be- lish the players’ associa- “It didn’t matter that they afraid to stand up to any- until 1980. During the 1980-
ginning the ritual in which tion weren’t the ones who traded me,” he said in one and stand up for what 81 season, he coached the
players skate around the needed it,” Lindsay ex- 1995. “I have a Red Wing he believed in.” team for 20 games.
rink holding the Stanley plained. “It was for the on my forehead and on my Born July 29, 1925, in Ren- He was a familiar face
Cup they have just won. fringe players that were behind and on my heart. frew, Ontario, as the young- around the Red Wings for
“I saw it sitting there, and I the worst off. When I got That will never change.” est of nine children, Lindsay decades after his retire-
thought, ‘I’ll just pick it up caught up in this, I was so The NHL Players’ Associa- joined the Red Wings in ment — and what a face.
and I’ll take it over,’” Lind- grateful to the game for all tion was formed for good 1944. He led the NHL with Pucks, fists and elbows took
say recalled in an interview it had done for me. But it in 1967 — a decade after 33 goals in 1947-48 and a toll on his face, leaving
with The Associated Press in was a dictatorship on the the Lindsay-led attempt to won the Art Ross Trophy for scratches and dents after
2013. “I just moved along part of the owners, who unionize — and the organi- the most points in 1949-50 uncountable numbers of
the boards. I didn’t have it didn’t realize any of us had zation put Lindsay’s name when he had 23 goals and stiches. He was booed on
over my head. I had it so a brain.” on its version of the MVP a league-best 55 assists. In road trips, the player every
they could read it. I wasn’t At one point, Lindsay gath- award. The honor, which is 1955, Lindsay scored four opposing team loved to
starting a tradition. I was ered secretly with a hand- chosen by an NHLPA vote, goals in a 7-1 victory over hate.q