It was a magical, unforgettable ride.The 1963-64 Marblehead High hockey team shocked the Massachusetts schoolboy puck world on its journey to the all-divisions state tournament championship game. The Headers combined a hard-nosed style of play with a talented group of players who approached every shift like it was their last.The entire 18-player 1963-64 team, along with collegiate All-American goaltenders Cory Schneider and Gary Whear, will be inducted into the Friends of Marblehead Hockey Hall of Fame on Aug. 18 at 5:30 p.m. as part of the organization’s 14th Annual Bud Orne Golf Tournament at Tedesco Country Club.”It was an honor and a privilege to represent Marblehead High,” said Daynor Prince, the Headers captain and MVP during the 1963-64 regular season. “The team played hard every game and every practice. We left it all on the ice every day. We were a team that played for each other, the school and the community. We were filled with pride and we loved to compete.””The 1963-64 team lit the flame for future Header hockey teams to follow,” said Bob Roland, who was in his second of an eventual 29 seasons guiding MHS as head coach. “We had a system that every player bought into: Play hard and get after it.”And get after it they did. Led by the first line of Prince, Don “Toot” Cahoon and John Sumner, the Headers scored and banged their way to an unprecedented ice campaign. Despite falling to the Arlington Spy Ponders in the title game, the 1963-64 season is still considered by many as the best in the program’s storied history. The program averaged a yearly record of 15-3 from 1963-1973, which has been labeled “The Golden Era of Marblehead High School Hockey.”Roland was quoted in a 1985 column by then-Salem News sports editor Bill Kipouras as saying, “Our first (1964 Tournament) game was against Hudson at Worcester Arena. I can still remember Tootie, a freshman, getting on the bus without a tie, and Daynor, a senior, really got on Tootie’s case. We won that game, 5-2, then got on a roll. We went to Boston Arena and Daynor scored the goal to beat Malden, 2-1, in overtime. After that we got Winchester, the top-rated team in the state.”They had this All-American line and we beat them on Cahoon’s breakaway. Someone was draped all over him and he still got the shot away. A slapper. Amazing.””Then,” Roland continued, “we went to the Boston Garden and played Stoneham. That was a doubleheader. Brookline met Arlington in the other game. You alternated periods. Stoneham was beating us, 2-0, and when they came off the ice, the Brookline kids asked them what the score was and Stoneham said it was a piece of cake. Our kids overheard that and went nuts in the dressing room. They were in an uproar. It goes to show you how much is in the mind. We went out and beat Stoneham, 3-2, with 56 seconds left. There were 12,000 in the Garden and the place went wild because we were such big underdogs.”Kipouras went on to report legendary Boston Garden organist John Kiley played “Marblehead Forever” after the monumental upset over Stoneham and Marblehead fans wept.Unfortunately, Arlington hadn’t been taxed nearly as much as Marblehead in the 1964 tournament and won the final, 5-1.”It was a game for one period; then they got us,” Roland said. “Hey, Arlington was the king in those days.”Nevertheless, Marblehead’s Cinderella effort became part of the hockey tournament’s legend.”We didn’t win it, but Peter Eyges, our goaltender, was still selected tournament MVP,” Roland told Kipouras. “I still have a picture of Tootie, John Sumner and Frank Haskell in my scrapbook. The whole thing was fantastic. You just never know what’s going to happen when the tournament comes. It’s not who you play, but how you play. Nobody could ever have dreamed what Header hockey did that year.”When it came to stopping the rubber biscuit and leading his team to victory, the acrobatic Gary Whear was undoubtedly one of the best in MHS hockey history, Whear, who went on to earn All-Ameri