16, 1980, 4–3 at a sold-out Will Rogers Coliseum and then 5–3 nine days later at the Met Center in Bloomington, MN. All the CHL teams played a round-robin with the Olympic team that season, with one game at home and one game in Bloomington. The games against the USA hockey team were very important to the CHL teams as they counted in the standings. The USA Olympic team finished 14–3–1 against the CHL teams. The Texans surprisingly finished 37–34–3 and reached the finals of the 1979–80 Adams Cup, losing in seven games to the Salt Lake City Golden Eagles. One game featured, as part of their intermission entertainment, a short exhibition hockey game between girls from the Dallas Playboy club and airmen stationed at Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth. The Airmen shared the ice with the Texans for a practice in the week leading up to the game. A team of local college players helped the girls. They advertised in the local papers with the slogan "War on Ice". The Fort Worth Wings/Texans and the Dallas Black Hawks maintained one of the most intense and storied rivalries in all sports history, featuring several bench clearing brawls. Fort Worth, during the 1978 championship campaign, featured stickers and buttons that read "BEAT dallas" as well as hosting the Blackhawks for a 10 cent beer night that became a near riot. The rivalry between the Wings/Texans and the Blackhawks also made them two of the most popular teams in the CHL. Head coaches The head coaches of the franchise include Fern Flaman, Doug Barkley, Bob Lemieux, Johnny Choyce, Ed Chadwick, Terry Gray, Billy MacMillan, Ron Ullyot, and Andy Laing. References External links Fort Worth Wings (1967-68) on Hockey Database.com Fort Worth Wings (1968-74) on Hockey Database.com Fort Worth Texans on Hockey Database.com Ice hockey clubs established in 1967 Ice hockey clubs disestablished in 1982 Defunct Central Hockey League teams Ice hockey teams in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex Defunct ice hockey teams in Texas Central Professional Hockey League teams 1967 establishments in Texas 1982 disestablishments in Texas Detroit Red Wings minor league affiliates St. Louis Blues minor league affiliates New York Islanders minor league affiliates Los Angeles Kings minor league affiliates Minnesota North Stars minor league affiliates Colorado Rockies (NHL) minor league affiliates