Harold Duden

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United StatesUnited States  Harold Duden Ice hockey player
Date of birth December 9, 1879
place of birth Brussels , Belgium
date of death May 31, 1952
Place of death El Paso , Texas , United States
position rover
Career stations
1901-1904 Columbia University
1906-1913 Princes Ice Hockey Club
1908 Brussels IHC

Harold Herman Duden (born December 9, 1879 in Brussels , Belgium - † May 31, 1952 in El Paso , Texas ) was an American - British ice hockey player who played for the Princes Ice Hockey Club between 1906 and 1913 at a variety of international Tournaments played. With the Princes IHC as representative of Great Britain, he won the gold medal at the first European ice hockey championship .

Career

Harold Duden was born in Brussels and moved to London with his family in 1880. His father was a very wealthy co-owner of a lace factory that had offices in six different countries and made millions of dollars a year.

Columbia University players, 1901/02 (Harold's brother William second row third from left)

In 1891 his family moved to the United States, and Harold became a US citizen in 1895. He began studying at Columbia University in New York City . In 1901 he received a Bachelor of Arts and in 1903 a Bachelor of Laws . Between at least 1901 and 1903, Harold played ice hockey with his brother William for the university's Varsity Hockey team .

In 1903 Duden was admitted to the bar in New York, but returned to Great Britain to practice as a lawyer in London. From 1904 he played for the Princes Ice Hockey Club , including at the Davos International Bandy Tournament 1904 . In addition to ice hockey, he was also active in other sports such as water polo, athletics, sailing, golf, tennis, polo, skiing and figure skating.

In 1908 he helped out for a few games at the Brussels IHC . In November 1908 he also took part with the Princes IHC in the first ever international ice hockey tournament, which took place in Berlin. In the final of the tournament, Duden scored the winning goal against the Club des Patineurs de Paris in front of more than 3000 spectators. Further participation in international tournaments followed with the Coupe de Chamonix 1909 , in which he scored seven goals in four games. In 1910 he won the gold medal at the first European ice hockey championship with the Princes IHC representing England . In 1914 he won the LIHG championship with the Princes IHC .

Harold's brother William, also an ice hockey player with the Princes IHC, died of typhus in 1910; his brother Frederick was killed by "revolutionaries". Duden lived both in Europe and in the USA and worked in property development.

Harold Duden died in May 1952 of acute pulmonary edema at Providence Hospital in El Paso , Texas .

Achievements and Awards

statistics

year team event Games Gates
1908 Princes IHC Int. Tournament Berlin 2 1
1909 Princes IHC Coupe de Chamonix 4th 7th
1910 Princes IHC European Championship 3 2
1913 Princes IHC LIHG championship 4th 1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Harold Duden. In: hockeyarchives.info. Retrieved March 24, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f David S. Gordon; Martin C. Harris: Lion in Winter: A Complete Record of Great Britain at the Olympic, World and European Ice Hockey Championships 1910-1981 . Lulu.com, 2019, ISBN 1-5272-4747-3 , pp. 21 .
personal data
SURNAME Duden, Harold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Duden, Harold Herman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels , Belgium
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1952
Place of death El Paso, Texas