Francis Sullivan (ice hockey player)

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Francis Cornelius Sullivan (born June 7, 1917 in Regina , Saskatchewan , † January 5, 2007 in Calgary , Alberta ) was a Canadian ice hockey player and coach . At the 1952 Winter Olympics , he won the gold medal as a member of the Canadian national team. His son Danny Sullivan was also an ice hockey player and played, among other things, in the World Hockey Association .

Career

Francis Sullivan began his career as a hockey player in 1935 with the Regina Christies from the Regina Junior Hockey League, but moved to the Regina Aces after only three games. There, too, he completed only four junior games before he was accepted into the senior team of the Aces. He stayed there for the entire 1936/37 season. He then joined the Yorkton Terriers from the Southern Saskatchewan Senior Hockey League, for which he played from 1937 to 1940. During this period he was also on the ice in a game for the Tulsa Oilers in the American Hockey Association . From 1940 to 1942 he ran for the Kimberley Dynamiters before he spent the 1943/44 season with the Ottawa RCAF in the Ottawa National Defense Hockey League and the following season with its league rivals Ottawa Uplands HQ. In 1945 he went once for the Seattle Ironmen in the Pacific Coast Hockey League . From 1945 to 1954 Sullivan played again for the Kimberley Dynamiters, whose team captain he was from 1946 to 1951 and in the 1953/54 season. During his time with the Dynamiters, he represented Canada as a guest player with the Edmonton Mercurys at the Winter Olympics in 1952. From 1952 to 1953 Sullivan was the head coach of the Swiss national ice hockey team . In the 1954/55 season he played for the Kimberley Legionaires. After a year-long break, he spent the 1956/57 season as a player-coach with the Cranbrook Selkirks in the Alberta-British Columbia-Montana League.

International

For Canada , Sullivan took part in the Winter Olympics in Oslo in 1952 , where he won the gold medal with his team. In eight games he scored five goals and five assists.

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personal data
SURNAME Sullivan, Francis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sullivan, Francis Cornelius (full name); Sullivan, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Regina , Saskatchewan , Canada
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 2007
Place of death Calgary , Alberta , Canada