Fred Chittick
Fred Chittick | |||
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Born |
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | April 5, 1868||
Died |
August 24, 1917 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | (aged 49)||
Position |
Goaltender | ||
Played for | Ottawa Hockey Club | ||
Playing career | 1894–1901 |
Frederick Charles Chittick (April 5, 1868 – August 24, 1917[1]) was a Canadian ice hockey goaltender for the Ottawa Hockey Club from 1894 until 1901. He was also a track and field athlete and a rugby football player.[2]
Playing career
Born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Chittick first joined the Ottawa Hockey Club of the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada (AHAC) for the 1895 season, taking over from Albert Morel as the starting goaltender. He played seven seasons for Ottawa, before retiring from play after the 1901 season, the season in which Ottawa won the Canadian Amateur Hockey League (successor from AHAC) championship. He would stay in the game as a referee.
In 1899, Chittick quit the Ottawas over a series of events. On January 21, Chittick was refereeing a game between
Chittick was employed as an accountant in the Canadian Department of Agriculture at the annual salary of $950 in the 1890s.[2] He died at his Ottawa home in 1917.[5]
Career statistics
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Season | Team | League | GPI | W | L | T | MIN | GA | SO | GAA | GPI | W | L | T | MIN | GA | SO | GAA | ||
1895 | Ottawa HC | AHAC | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 360 | 18 | 1 | 3.0 | ||||||||||
1896 | Ottawa HC | AHAC | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 480 | 16 | 1 | 2.0 | ||||||||||
1897 | Ottawa HC | AHAC | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 480 | 18 | 1 | 2.3 | ||||||||||
1898 | Ottawa HC | AHAC | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 240 | 21 | 0 | 5.0 | ||||||||||
1899 | Ottawa HC | CAHL | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 300 | 32 | 0 | 6.4 | ||||||||||
1900 | Ottawa HC | CAHL | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 80 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 |
References
Notes
- ^ Frederick Charles "Fred" Chittick (1868–1917) Find A Grave. Retrieved 2020-10-20.
- ^ a b Kitchen, p. 93
- ^ "Professionalism in the hockey game" Ottawa Citizen. Feb. 20, 1899 (pg. 6).
- ^ Kitchen, pp. 93–95
- ^ "FRED CHITTICK, NOTED OTTAWA ATHLETE, 'DIES", Winnipeg Free Press, Saturday, August 25, 1917, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Bibliography
- Coleman, Charles (1966). The Trail of the Stanley Cup, vol. 1 1893-1926 inc.
- Kitchen, Bill (2008). Win, Tie or Wrangle: The Inside Story of the Old Ottawa Senators 1883–1935. Manotick, Ontario: Penumbra Press. ISBN 978-1-897323-46-5.