Buddy Horne

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James Alfred "Buddy" Horne (born October 4, 1933 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player .

Career

Buddy Horne began his career as a hockey player in the 1950/51 season with the junior team Weston Dukes. The following season he spent with the Galt Black Hawks from the Junior Ontario Hockey Association. Then the attacker played until 1958 in the senior division for the amateur team Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen, with which he won the Allan Cup , the Canadian amateur championship, in 1955 . With the Dutchmen he represented Canada at the 1956 Winter Olympics. For the 1958/59 season, he joined the Whitby Dunlops, but only played six games for them. He then paused two years with ice hockey before he took up the 1961/62 season for the Waterloo Tigers from the Senior Ontario Hockey Association and the Toronto All-Stars, which are not playing in any league. After another three-year hiatus, he played from 1965 to 1967 for the Orillia Pepsis and in the 1967/68 season for the Collingwood Kings before ending his career at the age of 35.

International

For Canada , Horne took part in the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo , where he and his team won the bronze medal.

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