Arthur Throop

{{short description|Canadian ice hockey player}}

{{Infobox ice hockey player

| position = Left wing

| image = Arthur Throop, Ottawa Victorias.jpg

| image_size = 180px

| shoots = Left

| caption = Throop with the Ottawa Victorias.

| height_ft = 5

| height_in = 6

| weight_lb = 130

| birth_date = {{birth date|1884|8|19}}

| birth_place = Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

| death_date = {{death date and age|1973|6|24|1884|8|19}}

| death_place = Haileybury, Ontario, Canada

| career_start = 1902

| career_end = 1915

| played_for = Ottawa Victorias
Pittsburgh Lyceum[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19081221&id=obs0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=7YQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4024,4741335 "Bankers again beat Lyceum"] The Montreal Gazette December 21, 1908.
Pittsburgh Bankers
Brantford Indians[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19090217&id=PHcuAAAAIBAJ&sjid=AoUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6705,4037721 "Montreal won in Halifax"] The Montreal Gazette February 17, 1909.
Toronto Tecumsehs
Haileybury Comets
New Westminster Royals
Portland Rosebuds

| halloffame =

}}

Arthur Leonard "Art" Throop (August 19, 1884 – June 24, 1973) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played for the New Westminster Royals (1913–14) and Portland Rosebuds (1914–15) of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association.[http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83025138/1915-01-09/ed-1/seq-12/ocr.txt Arthur Throop, Forward on Portland Hockey Team] oregonnews.uoregon.edu He also previously played for the Ottawa Victorias, and during his time with the club he was involved in a 1907 FAHL game which saw the death of Bud McCourt.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2194&dat=19070411&id=xUIuAAAAIBAJ&sjid=yNgFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6714,2278749 "Masson Trial"] Ottawa Citizen April 11, 1907. He suffered a blow to the head from an opposing player's stick during a brawl that ensued that game.{{cite web |author= |url=http://www.standard-freeholder.com/2009/01/06/death-on-ice-in-1907 |title=Death on ice in 1907 | Cornwall Standard Freeholder |publisher=Standard-freeholder.com |date= |accessdate=2014-03-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303231909/http://www.standard-freeholder.com/2009/01/06/death-on-ice-in-1907 |archive-date=2016-03-03 |url-status=dead }}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P4xx3jv69lsC&q=%22Arthur+Throop%22+AND+%22hockey%22&pg=PA186 |title=Coast to Coast: Hockey in Canada to the Second World War - Google Books |date= January 2009|isbn=9780802095329 |accessdate=2014-03-01|last1=Wong |first1=John Chi-Kit }}

Throop also spent time in the National Hockey Association with the Toronto Tecumsehs and Haileybury Comets.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nHlRhgf_PO0C&q=%22Art+Throop%22+AND+%22hockey%22&pg=PA11 |title=Hockey in Portland - Jim Mancuso, Scott Petterson - Google Books |isbn=9780738548043 |accessdate=2014-03-01|last1=Mancuso |first1=Jim |last2=Petterson |first2=Scott |year=2007 }}

Throop died in 1973 at a Haileybury hospital.[https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/45763876/ The Ottawa Journal] page 53, June 30, 1973.

He was the last surviving former player of the Haileybury Comets and the Toronto Tecumsehs.