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Some significant events & milestones in New Brunswick sports history:
1975 - Danny Grant scores 50 goals for the Detroit Red Wings becoming only the
12th player in NHL history, and the first Maritimer to accomplish the feat.
1973 - Ron Turcotte rides the great Secretariat to the Triple Crown, the first
Canadian jockey to accomplish the feat, and the first time in twenty-five years
that one horse has captured the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness and the Belmont
Stakes in the same year.
1972 - The first New Brunswick Summer Games are held in Edmundston.
1970 - The New Brunswick Sports Hall of Fame is established to honour this
province's outstanding athletes, teams and sport builders.
1967 - The first New Brunswick Winter Games are held in Fredericton.
1963 - The Mabel DeWare Rink from the Moncton Beaver Curling Club wins the
Canadian women's curling championship, the first national title for a New
Brunswick team.
1958 - Yvon Durelle and Archie Moore meet in the Montreal Forum in one of
boxing's greatest fights ever, with Moore retaining the World Light-heavyweight
Championship in an 11th round knock-out.
1958 - Willie O'Ree becomes the first black to play in the National Hockey
League, when he appears with the Boston Bruins.
1957 - The first physical education degree program in Atlantic Canada is
established at the University of New Brunswick.
1951 - Andrew "Beef" Malcolm is nominated for consideration as Canada's "Athlete
of the first-half Century".
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