Eddie Gerard, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian ice hockey player and coach
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Place of Birth: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
About Eddie Gerard
- Edward George Gerard (February 22, 1890 – August 7, 1937) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player, coach, and manager.
- Born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, he played professionally for 10 seasons for his hometown Ottawa Senators.
- He spent the first three years of his playing career as a left winger before switching to defence, retiring in 1923 due to a throat ailment.
- Gerard won the Stanley Cup in four consecutive years from 1920 to 1923 (with the Senators three times, and as an injury replacement player with the Toronto St.
- Patricks in 1922), and was the first player to win the Cup four years in a row.
- After his playing career he served as a coach and manager, working with the Montreal Maroons from 1925 until 1929, winning the Stanley Cup in 1926.
- Gerard also coached the New York Americans for two seasons between 1930 and 1932, before returning to the Maroons for two more seasons.
- He ended his career coaching the St.
- Louis Eagles in 1934, before retiring due to the same throat issue that had ended his playing career.
- He died from complications related to it in 1937. Renowned as a talented athlete in multiple sports, Gerard first gained prominence in rugby football as a halfback for the Ottawa Rough Riders club from 1909 to 1913, though he left the sport when he moved to hockey.
- Outside hockey he worked initially for the Canadian government as a printer, before working in the Geodetic Survey, ultimately becoming chief engineering clerk.
- Well-renowned during his hockey-playing career, he was regarded as one of the best defenders of his era, and gained notice for being a tough player, though not considered violent or dirty.
- Gerard was one of the original nine players inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame when it was founded in 1945.
- He is also an inductee of Canada's Sports Hall of Fame.
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