Arthur Throop Explained

Position:Left wing
Shoots:Left
Height Ft:5
Height In:6
Weight Lb:130
Birth Date:19 August 1884
Birth Place:Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Death Place:Haileybury, Ontario, Canada
Career Start:1902
Career End:1915
Played For:Ottawa Victorias
Pittsburgh Lyceum[1]
Pittsburgh Bankers
Brantford Indians[2]
Toronto Tecumsehs
Haileybury Comets
New Westminster Royals
Portland Rosebuds

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.[3] 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.[4] He suffered a blow to the head from an opposing player's stick during a brawl that ensued that game.[5] [6]

Throop also spent time in the National Hockey Association with the Toronto Tecumsehs and Haileybury Comets.[7]

Throop died in 1973 at a Haileybury hospital.[8]

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

Statistics

  Regular season  Playoffs
SeasonTeamLeagueGP G A Pts PIMGP G A Pts PIM
8 6 0 6 10
Ottawa Victorias FAHL 7 4 0 4
17 7 0 7
1907–08 World Pro. Series 10 0 0
Pittsburgh Lyceum WPHL 8 3 0 3
1908–09 15 17 0 17 52
12 9 0 9 43
NHA 20 11 0 11 48
10 5 3 8 18
PCHA 18 16 8 24 43
NHA totals32 20 0 20 91
PCHA totals28 21 11 32 61

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Notes and References

  1. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19081221&id=obs0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=7YQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4024,4741335 "Bankers again beat Lyceum"
  2. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19090217&id=PHcuAAAAIBAJ&sjid=AoUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6705,4037721 "Montreal won in Halifax"
  3. http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83025138/1915-01-09/ed-1/seq-12/ocr.txt Arthur Throop, Forward on Portland Hockey Team
  4. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2194&dat=19070411&id=xUIuAAAAIBAJ&sjid=yNgFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6714,2278749 "Masson Trial"
  5. Web site: Death on ice in 1907 | Cornwall Standard Freeholder . Standard-freeholder.com . 2014-03-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303231909/http://www.standard-freeholder.com/2009/01/06/death-on-ice-in-1907 . 2016-03-03 . dead .
  6. Book: Coast to Coast: Hockey in Canada to the Second World War - Google Books . January 2009. 9780802095329 . 2014-03-01. Wong . John Chi-Kit .
  7. Book: Hockey in Portland - Jim Mancuso, Scott Petterson - Google Books . 9780738548043 . 2014-03-01. Mancuso . Jim . Petterson . Scott . 2007 .
  8. https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/45763876/ The Ottawa Journal