I was asked the other day about the history of the WMPL poll, so I talked
   to Bob Olson (owner of WMPL) today at the Blue Line lunch.
 
 The Poll was first started by Gary Bender in Madison in the early 70's at a
   station called WKOW. after the first year it was dropped, and then picked up
   a year after that by WMPL.  Dennis Hanks (then sports info director here at
   MTU) and Bob Olson decided to run it here at WMPL.  Bob ran the poll and
   Dennis distributed it.
 
 The poll is of 10 Coaches nation wide.
                3 from WCHA
                3 from CCHA
                4 from the eastern schools
 
There have been many polls come and go since the WMPL poll started.  Bob seemed
to like the idea of OUR Hockey-l Composite Tad poll, combining the albany, WMPL
and Hockey-l poll together.
 
For the second week in a row, college hockly fans in the upper Peninsula of
   Michigan have their dogsleds and snowmobiles out trying to get to the games
   At last report from Steve in Marquette, they were just hitching up the team
    to plow thru the storm (5-10 inches predicted) to get here in time for us
     to get to dinner before the Game.  Another Hockey-ler Cathy Alzapiedi from
     New York (a friend of Bob Mancini) was flying into marquette at noon then
      Driving the 2 hours here to join us also......Still waiting on her call
      as of yet.  Ain't winter fun! ;-)
 
 Joining us on the trip back to Marquette Tomorrow are fellow MTU Hockey-lers
 Dave and Linda Fredrickson, for the game and Dinner after with Steve
 Christopher from NMU.   Thanks to Hockey-l for the oppertunity to get together
 with people from other schools!   its a mini Hockey-l get together in The U.P.
 this weekend! ;-)
 
                      Bob