Peter Patton
Major Bethune Minet "Peter" Patton (born March 5, 1876 in London , † April 10, 1939 in Tiverton ) was a British ice hockey player (defender / goalkeeper ) and official.
Career
Peter Patton was one of the most influential figures in ice hockey in both the UK and Europe. Together with Canadian immigrants, he established the first ice hockey league in all of Europe in 1903 - the English Ice Hockey League . This consisted of five teams. With the Princes Ice Hockey Club , of which he was the founder and team captain, he took part in numerous important international tournaments at the beginning of the 20th century. With the British national team he took part in the 1910 European Championship , which won the first national team tournament in the history of ice hockey. He also played with the English national team in a series of friendly matches against the national team of Scotland . At the LIHG championship in 1913 , he finished second with Great Britain. Patton, who normally played as a defender, was available at the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix on the position as ice hockey goalkeeper as a substitute, but was ultimately not used. He ended his active career in 1930 at the age of 54.
In 1908 Patton was instrumental in founding the Ligue internationale de hockey sur glace (LIHG) , today's International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). In 1910/11, 1912/13 and 1923/24 he was vice president of the association. In 1914 he was also its president for a short time. From 1914 to 1934 he was also the first president of the British Ice Hockey Association . In the 1930s he was vice president of the ice hockey clubs from Streatham and Wembley for some time.
His main occupation was Patton, the son of a brigadier general, a professional soldier. During the First World War he fought in France from September 1914 to May 1916. He was later ordered to serve in the Serbian Army, from which he was awarded the Order of the White Eagle . In 1921 he finally retired from the military.
The Patton Cup was named after him, a trophy given annually to the winner of the game between the men's ice hockey teams at the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford . In addition, the trophy of the same name for the British champion from 1930 was named for him.
Achievements and Awards
- 1910 gold medal at the European Championship
- 1950 induction into the British Ice Hockey Hall of Fame
- 2002 induction into the IIHF Hall of Fame
Web links
- Peter Patton on the British Ice Hockey Hall of Fame website ( April 22, 2012 memento in the Internet Archive )
- Peter Patton at azhockey.com (engl.)
Individual evidence
- ^ Ice Hockey History - Great Britain. In: legendsofhockey.net. Retrieved February 13, 2020 .
Louis Magnus (1908-1912) | Henri Van den Bulcke (1912–1914) | Louis Magnus (1914) | Peter Patton (1914) | Henri Van den Bulcke (1914–1920) | Max Sillig (1920–1922) | Paul Loicq (1922-1947) | Fritz Kraatz (1947–1948) | George Hardy (1948–1951) | Fritz Kraatz (1951–1954) | Walter A. Brown (1954-1957) | Bunny Ahearne (1957-1960) | Robert LeBel (1960–1963) | Bunny Ahearne (1963-1966) | William Thayer Tutt (1966–1969) | Bunny Ahearne (1969–1975) | Günther Sabetzki (1975–1994) | René Fasel (since 1994)
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Patton, Peter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Patton, Bethune Minet (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British ice hockey player and official |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 5, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London , UK |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 10, 1939 |
| Place of death | Tiverton , UK |