Dubbie Bowie

Dubbie Bowie
Hockey Hall of Fame , 1947
Date of birth	August 24, 1880
place of birth	Montreal , Quebec , Canada
date of death	April 8, 1959
position	striker
Career stations
1893-1896	Montréal Tuckers Montréal Comets
1896-1910	Montreal Victoria

Russell "Dubbie" Bowie (born August 24, 1880 in Montreal , Québec , † April 8, 1959 ) was a Canadian ice hockey player who is now regarded as one of the best players in the period before the founding of the National Hockey League .

Career

As a teenager in the 1890s, Bowie played for various amateur teams from Montreal, then from 1896 for the Montreal Victorias of the Canadian Amateur Hockey League and later for the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association , for which he was on the ice until his retirement in 1909 . In 80 league games he achieved the unprecedented mark of 234 goals, and at the age of 18 he won the last Stanley Cup in the history of the club with the Victorias .

On February 20, 1901, the striker scored seven goals in one game, two weeks later he scored six times against the Montreal Shamrocks . At the end of the season he had managed to score 24 goals, which meant three goals per game and 14 goals more than the second-best player on the scorers list.

However, contrary to all offers, Bowie never played professional ice hockey. After retiring from his career, he said: "I am an amateur, what an amateur, and will die an amateur" ( "I am an amateur, was an amateur and will also die as an amateur" ). In 1907, he was accused of taking money from the Montreal Wanderers , later found that the Wanderes gifted him with an offer to play with them, a piano as a further incentive.

With the establishment of the Professional National Hockey Association in 1909 and the associated fall of the Wanderers into insignificance, Russell Bowie resigned from ice hockey. By 1910, however, he played ten games for his old club, when an injury finally ended his career. After his active career, he mainly worked as a referee .

In 1947, Dubbie Bowie was inducted into the newly formed Hockey Hall of Fame as one of the first players .

Reference

1. ↑ Cyclone Always All-Star timber . In: The Leader-Post , February 27, 1947. Retrieved February 7, 2012. 
2. ↑ Pick Eddie Shore and Six Others To National Hockey Hall of Fame . In: Lewiston Daily Sun , Feb. 26, 1947, p. 9. Retrieved February 7, 2012. 

Web links

• Dubbie Bowie in the database of the Hockey Hall of Fame (English)