Flat iron (lacrosse player)

Flat iron (lacrosse player) medal table
Canada
Olympic games
bronze	1904 St. Louis	lacrosse

Flat Iron (life dates unknown) was a lacrosse player . At the 1904 Summer Olympics in the US St. Louis MO , he won together with Black Hawk , Black Eagle , Almighty Voice , Spotted Tail , Half Moon , Lightfoot , Snake Eater , Red Jacket , Night Hawk , Man Afraid Soap and Rain in Face the bronze medal in the first lacrosse competition of the Olympic Games.

life and career

Flat Iron - like his teammates from the Brantford area and probably a Mohawk , but possibly also an Iroquois - competed with the Mohawk Indians of Canada at the Olympic Games as the second Canadian team alongside the Winnipeg Shamrocks . The First Defense could not prevent a defeat in the only game against the team of the St. Louis Amateur Athletic Association and won the bronze medal in the end.

literature

• Bill Mallon: The 1904 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary. McFarland & Company, Jefferson NC 2009, ISBN 978-0-7864-4066-5 , pp. 165-167 ( online ).

Web links

• Flat iron in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )