Wally Halder

Walter Edwin "Wally" Halder (born September 15, 1925 in Toronto , Ontario ; † October 27, 1994 ibid) was a Canadian ice hockey player and coach . At the Olympic Winter Games in 1948 , he won the gold medal as a member of the Canadian national team.

Career

Wally Halder began his career as a hockey player in the Junior Ontario Hockey Association, in which he was active from 1938 to 1940 for one year each for the Toronto Young Rangers and then the University of Toronto Varssitiy Blues. He then joined the Toronto Tip Top Taylors, for whom he was on the ice from 1940 to 1943 in the Toronto Hockey League (TOHL). During the Second World War he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Navy . For the military team Toronto Navy, he completed a total of five games. After his time in the military, he played parallel for the Tip Top Tailors and the University of Toronto team for a year . He graduated from Trinity College at the University of Toronto in 1946. In the 1946/47 season, the Canadian played for the Toronto Barkers in the Toronto Hockey League. During this season he was named the most valuable player in the TOHL. Therefore, he received an offer to play for the RCAF Flyers, with whom he represented Canada at the 1948 Winter Olympics. From 1949 to 1951 he worked as an ice hockey coach at the University of Toronto.

International

For Canada , Halder took part in the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz , where he and his team won the gold medal. In eight games he scored 29 points scorer, including 21 goals, making him the top scorer in Canada.

Achievements and Awards

• 1948 gold medal at the Olympic Winter Games

Web links

• Wally Halder in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )