Jack McCulloch
{{short description|Canadian speed skater and ice hockey player}}
{{Infobox ice hockey player
| name = Jack McCulloch
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| image = Jack McCulloch.jpg
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| caption = Photo from Outing magazine, Vol. XXXI, Oct. 1897 – Mar. 1898
| birth_date = {{birth date|1872|8|15}}
| birth_place = Perth, Ontario, Canada
| death_date = {{death date and age|1918|1|26|1872|8|15}}
| death_place = Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
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| position = Forward
Defense
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| played_for = Winnipeg Victorias
| career_start = 1891
| career_end = 1894
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John K. McCulloch (August 15, 1872 – January 26, 1918) was a Canadian speed skater and ice hockey player. He won several Canadian amateur speed skating championships and one world championship.
Sports career
An amateur skater from 1890 to 1898, during which time he was the dominant speed skater in Canada. In the 1897 world championships in Montreal in the 1,500-meter race, he and Alfred Næss finished in a dead heat, forcing a run-off. McCulloch won by two-fifths of a second.{{cite web |url=http://www.cshof.ca/hm_profile.php?i=33 |title=Jack McCulloch |accessdate=2008-10-12|publisher=Canada's Sports Hall of Fame |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080126094140/http://www.cshof.ca/hm_profile.php?i=33 |archivedate=2008-01-26 |df= }}
In 1889, McCulloch helped found the Winnipeg Victorias hockey club, one of the first in western Canada. He participated in the first organized ice hockey game in Manitoba, and played for the hockey club for several years afterward. McCulloch was a multi-athlete and outside of speed skating and ice hockey he also excelled in roller skating, figure skating, track and field, rowing, canoeing and gymnastics. He is a member of the Canada and Manitoba Sports Halls of Fame.
References
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External links
- [http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/mcculloch_jk.shtml John K. "Jack" McCulloch] at [http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people Memorable Manitobans]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080126094140/http://www.cshof.ca/hm_profile.php?i=33 Jack McCulloch] at Canada's Sports Hall of Fame
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Category:Canadian male speed skaters
Category:Winnipeg Victorias players
Category:World Allround Speed Skating Championships medalists