| Dick Carroll | |
| Birth Name: | Richard Leo Carroll |
| Birth Date: | 28 April 1885 |
| Birth Place: | Guelph, Ontario, Canada |
| Death Place: | Guelph, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation: | Ice hockey coach |
| Spouse: | Myrtle Kilpatrick (m. 1913) |
Richard Leo Carroll (April 28, 1885 – January 20, 1952) was a Canadian ice hockey coach. He led the Toronto team in the National Hockey League to the Stanley Cup championship in 1918 and the Toronto Canoe Club junior hockey team to the Memorial Cup win in 1920.
From Guelph, Ontario, Carroll worked with the Toronto Blueshirts of the National Hockey Association. He won the Stanley Cup with his brother Frank as a trainer in 1914. In December, 1917 Richard was then asked by Charlie Querrie to be coach and assistant manager of the new Toronto NHL franchise. The team won the Stanley Cup in its first year, but even with largely the same lineup, struggled badly in 1918–19 (now under the name the Toronto Arenas), finishing with five wins and 13 losses. Carroll was replaced as coach after that season.
In 1919–20, Carroll coached the Toronto Dental Society senior team in the Ontario Hockey Association and the Toronto Canoe Club junior team that won the 1920 Memorial Cup. In 1920–21 and 1921–22, he coached the Toronto Aura Lee senior team.
Caroll then coached the Pittsburgh Yellow Jackets of the United States Amateur Hockey Association, leading them to two championships in 1924 and 1925. He then coached the Duluth Hornets of the American Hockey Association for two seasons (1926 to 1928) and the Tulsa Oilers for three seasons (1928 to 1931). Over his first five years as a coach in the AHA, Carroll's teams finished in first place four times. Staying in the AHA, Carroll coached the St. Louis Flyers (1931–32) and the Oklahoma City Warriors (1933–34), but both teams had losing records.
He was also a football and boxing coach, and was manager of the Guelph Maple Leafs baseball team of the Intercounty Baseball League, winning the league championship in 1928.[1]
Caroll died in Guelph after being confined to hospital with a heart condition. He was 66 years old.
| Team | Year | Post season | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | L | T | Pts | Division rank | Result | |||
| Toronto Hockey Club | 1917-18 | 22 | 13 | 9 | 0 | 26 | 2nd in NHL | Won O'Brien Trophy (10-7 vs. MTL) Won Stanley Cup (3-2 vs. VAN) | |
| Toronto Hockey Club | 1918-19 | 18 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 10 | 3rd in NHL | Did not qualify | |
| NHL totals | 40 | 18 | 22 | 0 | 36 | 4-3 (0.571 - 1 Stanley Cup) | |||
| Team | Year | Post season | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | L | T | Pts | Division rank | Result | |||
| Pittsburgh Yellow Jackets | 1923-24 | 20 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 30 | 1st in Western | Finished 1st in division final round-robin (4-1-1) Won Fellowes Cup (4-1 vs. BOS) | |
| Pittsburgh Yellow Jackets | 1924-25 | 20 | 15 | 3 | 2 | 32 | 1st in Western | Won division final (4-0 vs. EVE) Won Fellowes Cup (4-0 vs. FP) | |
| USAHA totals | 40 | 30 | 8 | 2 | 62 | 2 division titles | 16-2-1 (0.868 - 2 Fellowes Cups) | ||
| Team | Year | Post season | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | L | T | Pts | Division rank | Result | |||
| Duluth Hornets | 1926-27 | 38 | 20 | 10 | 8 | 48 | 1st in AHA | Won Harry F. Sinclair Trophy (3-0 vs. MIN) | |
| Duluth Hornets | 1927-28 | 40 | 18 | 9 | 13 | 49 | 1st in AHA | Lost Harry F. Sinclair Trophy (0-1-4 vs. MIN) | |
| Tulsa Oilers | 1928-29 | 40 | 23 | 9 | 8 | 54 | 1st in AHA | Won Harry F. Sinclair Trophy (2-0-2 vs. STP) | |
| Tulsa Oilers | 1929-30 | 48 | 18 | 14 | 16 | 52 | 3rd in AHA | Won league semi-finals (2-1-1 vs. DUL Lost Harry F. Sinclair Trophy (6-8 vs. KC) | |
| Tulsa Oilers | 1930-31 | 48 | 30 | 15 | 3 | 60 | 1st in AHA | Won Harry F. Sinclair Trophy (3-1 vs. KC) | |
| St. Louis Flyers | 1931-32 | 48 | 18 | 22 | 8 | 36 | 4th in AHA | Did not qualify | |
| Oklahoma City Warriors | 1933-34 | 48 | 16 | 30 | 2 | 32 | 4th in AHA | Did not qualify | |
| AHA totals | 310 | 143 | 109 | 58 | 331 | 12-5-8 (0.640 - 3 Harry F. Sinclair Trophies) | |||