William Thayer Tutt

{{Short description|American ice hockey executive (1912–1989)}}

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William Thayer Tutt (March 2, 1912 – February 24, 1989) was an American executive for several ice hockey leagues and organizations, who was born in Coronado, California and died in El Paso. He is the son of Charles L. Tutt, Jr., and has two brothers, Charles L. Tutt, III and Russel Thayer Tutt, and one sister. William married Margaret Bradford Timmons (February 13, 1909 – June 2, 1988 at Colorado Springs) on November 4, 1932. Later he married former figure skating champion Yvonne Sherman.{{citation needed|date=June 2023}}

Tutt was instrumental in bringing the first NCAA men's ice hockey championships to the Broadmoor World Arena in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He also helped bring the Soviet Union's ice hockey team to the United States for the first time in 1959. From 1966 to 1969, he was president of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF).{{citation needed|date=June 2023}}

In the 1970s, when word got out that the United States Olympic Committee was looking for a newer, more modern home, he helped convince the committee to move to Colorado Springs.{{Citation needed|date=March 2016}}

Also in the 1970s, Tutt was instrumental in bringing the United States Figure Skating Association headquarters to Colorado Springs as he arranged the purchase and transfer of the land for the new building.{{Citation needed|date=March 2016}} He also helped to bring the World Figure Skating Championships to the Broadmoor.{{citation needed|date=June 2023}}

Tutt was elected to the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 1973, to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1978, and to the United States Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 1991.{{citation needed|date=June 2023}} He was posthumously inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame in 2002.{{cite news|title=Hockey|date=March 14, 2002|newspaper=Star Tribune|location=Minneapolis, Minnesota|page=C2|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/star-tribune-tutt-2002/127080112/|access-date=June 25, 2023}}{{cite web|title=Eight new IIHF Hall of Famers will be celebrated in Goteborg|website=International Ice Hockey Federation|year=2002|url= http://www.iihf.com/news/1newsog70130.htm|access-date=November 8, 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927191630/http://www.iihf.com/news/1newsog70130.htm|archive-date=September 27, 2007}}

Outside of hockey, Tutt was involved with the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb auto race and served as the president of the Pikes Peak Hillclimb association. Tutt has posthumously inducted in to the Pikes Peak Hill Climb Museum Hall of Fame in 1997.{{cite web|url=https://ppihc.org/hall-of-fame/|title=Pikes Peak Hill Climb Museum Hall of Fame|website=ppihc.org|publisher=Pikes Peak International Hill Climb}}