Exactly fifty years ago, on March 15, 1975, India won the hockey World Cup for the first (and, so far, only) time. Here, Ashok Kumar, who scored the winning goal in the final, tells the story of how a ...

Some say it was a fluke, while others say it was mere chance. However, even though this proved to be a false dawn, the Indian team went on to win their first and only field hockey World Championship ...

The results in the lead up to the World Cup in 1975 didn’t really flatter the Indian side; they won gold in the 1964 Tokyo Games but it was followed by two bronze-medal finishes in 1968 and 1972.

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is ...

Editor’s note: This article was originally published in 2018 during the 14th edition of the World Cup that was held in Odisha. Most of us know 2011. We know the bowler, we know the batsman, we know ...

MVPs from the 1975 and 1976 ECAC championships games, John Vigneron Jr. ’75 and Rob Menzies ’79 came to center ice for a ...

India beat Pakistan 2-1 in the final of 1975 Hockey World Cup. Ashok Kumar scored the winner in the 51st minute of the game in Kuala Lumpur. Among his many distinctions, Ashok Kumar is primarily known ...

The scoreboard was unused and not illuminated to keep track of goals at a Feb. 3 scrimmage on the outdoor ice rink at the Weinberg Family Recreation Center in Glencoe. But so what? At first, members ...