| Stig Emanuel Andersson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Birth Name: | Stig Emanuel Gustaf Andersson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 16 October 1914 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Stockholm, Sweden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Death Place: | Nacka, Sweden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Stig Emanuel "Stickan" Andersson (16 October 1914 - 23 March 2000) was a Swedish ice hockey, football and bandy player, known for representing Hammarby IF in all three sports.[1]
He competed in the men's hockey tournaments at the 1936 Winter Olympics and the 1948 Winter Olympics.[2]
Andersson grew up in a working-class home in a southern part of Stockholm known as Södermalm.[3] His father was working as a groundskeeper at Hammarby Idrottsplats, the home of local club Hammarby IF which he joined as a youngster, together with the likes of Sven Bergqvist.[4] [3]
In 1932, Andersson started to play hockey with Hammarby IF in Elitserien, Sweden's top tier.[4] He won six Swedish championships – in 1933, 1936, 1937, 1942, 1943 and 1946 – with the club.[5] [6] In total, In Andersson made 220 competitive appearances for Hammarby, scoring 120 goals.[4] He was known as both a prolific goalscorer and playmaker, playing as a right winger, forming a deadly partnership with centre Kurt Kjellström and left winger Holger Nurmela in the 1940s.[3]
Andersson won 38 caps for the Swedish national team, scoring a total of 19 goals.[3] He represented his country at three major tournaments: the 1936 and 1948 Winter Olympics and the 1938 World Championships.[7] He is a recipient of the honorary award "Big boy", which is handed out by Swedish Ice Hockey Association.[8]
In 1946, he left Hammarby for Atlas Diesels IF in the Swedish lower divisions. Andersson played three seasons for his new club until his retirement from hockey in 1950.[6]
On 3 September 1933, at the age of 18, Andersson debuted in the senior football team of Hammarby IF, in a 2–3 loss against IK Sleipner.[3]
Between 1933 and 1949, Andersson made 229 league appearances for the club, mostly in the Swedish second tier Division 2, scoring 91 goals.[3]
In 1939–40, Hammarby competed for one season in Allsvenskan, the domestic top league, with Andersson playing in 18 of 22 fixtures, but was relegated immediately.[9] [10]
Andersson was also a prominent bandy player and played 16 seasons with Hammarby IF between 1932 and 1947. He was also a member of the Swedish national team.[3] [4]
He was the older brother of Åke "Plutten" Andersson, who also would become a celebrated sportsman.[4] His son Börje Andersson also played hockey and made one season with Hammarby IF in 1968-69.[11]
When Hammarby's ice hockey team was on tour in the United Kingdom in 1946, Stig Emanuel Andersson allegedly coined the term "Bajen", a short form of a mock-English pronunciation of "Hammarby", that has been the club's most used nickname since the 1970s.[4]
Andersson's personal battle cry was "Bamsing - stångkorv!", which he used to shout at his teammates when it was time to really fight and preferably score two goals in a short time. This later led to Hammarby's hockey team being called "Bamsingarna", an other nickname that still lives on today.[4] [3]