Position: | Left wing |
Shoots: | Left[1] |
Height Ft: | 5 |
Height In: | 6 |
Weight Lb: | 150 |
Birth Date: | 12 October 1887 |
Birth Place: | Calumet, MI, USA |
Death Place: | Mountain View, CA, USA |
Career Start: | 1907 |
Career End: | 1919 |
Played For: | Portland Rosebuds Vancouver Millionaires |
Charles Uksila, Jr. (October 12, 1887 – March 4, 1964) was an American professional hockey player. He played for the Portland Rosebuds and Vancouver Millionaires of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association. He was a native of Calumet, Michigan, where he started his hockey career. Prior to playing with Portland, he was a member of the Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club. He was a member of the Rosebuds team that played the Montreal Canadiens in the 1916 Stanley Cup Finals.[2]
Uksila retired from professional hockey after the 1918–19 season, and then worked as a fancy skating instructor at the Connaught Skating Club in Vancouver.[3] He also toured in Australia where he performed as a figure skater alongside his sister in Sydney and Melbourne.[4]
He died in Mountain View, California,[5] [6] in 1964. He was of Finnish descent.[7]
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