Harry Allen (ice hockey)

{{Infobox ice hockey player

| name=Harry Allen

| image = Harry Allen 1946.jpg

| image_size=

| caption = Allen, circa 1946

| position =Center

| shoots = Left

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 0

| weight_lb = 165

| league =

| played_for =Edmonton Mercurys

| former_teams =

| ntl_team=Canada

| birth_date = {{birth date|1923|1|23}}

| birth_place = Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

| death_date={{death date and age|1990|8|2|1923|1|23}}

| death_place=Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

| career_start = 1940

| career_end = 1952

| medaltemplates={{MedalSport | Men's ice hockey}}

}}

Harold John Allen (January 23, 1923 – August 2, 1990) was a Canadian ice hockey player with the Edmonton Mercurys.

Career

Allen won a gold medal at the 1950 World Ice Hockey Championships in London, England. The 1950 Edmonton Mercurys team was inducted to the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame in 2011.{{cite web| url=http://ashfm.ca/component/k2/edmonton-waterloo-mercurys-1950| title=Edmonton Waterloo Mercurys 1950| publisher=Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum| accessdate=May 21, 2013| archive-date=March 25, 2017| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170325054429/http://ashfm.ca/component/k2/edmonton-waterloo-mercurys-1950| url-status=dead}} Allen, the brother of Keith Allen, also played in the PCHL for the Los Angeles Monarchs and Oakland Oaks."Harry Allen", Society for International Hockey Research Database, accessed August 1, 2015. He later coached the Edmonton Oil Kings, and was named Edmonton's Sportsman of the Year after his Oil Kings team appeared in the 1959–60 Memorial Cup. Allen died on August 2, 1990, at the age of 67.Edmonton sports personality Harry Allen dies at age 67: [Final Edition]

Edmonton Journal [Edmonton, Alta] August 3, 1990: B4.

References

Category:1923 births

Category:1990 deaths

Category:Canadian ice hockey centres

Category:Ice hockey people from Edmonton

Category:Oakland Oaks (PCHL) players

Category:20th-century Canadian sportsmen