October 14, 2009

Glass Goes Forward While Looking Back

The following article featuring former Dartmouth standout Tanner Glass appeared October 12 on the Vancouver Sun Web site.


By Yvonne Zacharias
VANCOUVER SUN

If things don’t pan out for Tanner Glass as a hockey player with the Vancouver Canucks, he can always consider a career as a history professor.

One of the more cerebral players in the brawny world of the rink, Glass studied history at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire before making his professional hockey debut with the Florida Panthers’ minor league affiliate, the Rochester Americans.

“I am a history buff,” explained the 25-year-old Saskatchewan native in the Canucks dressing room following a practice. “I studied the history of imperialism, the Roman Empire, the American Empire. You look back at major things that happened in the world and it’s interesting to see what led up to them and what caused them.”

Complete article can be accessed via the Sun Web site by clicking here.