1. Clarence Campbell refereed in the National Hockey League during the 1930s, served in the Canadian Army during World War II, then served as the third president of the NHL from 1946 to 1977.
17 Facts About Clarence Campbell
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Clarence Campbell's career was recognized with induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1966, and the naming of the Clarence S Campbell Bowl for him.
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Clarence Campbell graduated from the University of Alberta with a degree in law and arts in 1924 and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, where he played for the Oxford University Ice Hockey Club.
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Clarence Campbell was an executive member of the Alberta Amateur Hockey Association in the 1930s, and was part of a Canadian Amateur Hockey Association committee in 1935 to study the definition of an amateur hockey player and updates needed.
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Clarence Campbell worked as a referee in the NHL from 1933 until 1939.
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Clarence Campbell officiated some historic games, such as the game in 1937 when the great Howie Morenz's career was ended when he broke his leg, an injury that eventually led to his death.
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Clarence Campbell even refereed a rough playoff game between the Montreal Maroons and the Boston Bruins in which Dit Clapper used his stick on a player.
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Clarence Campbell made a controversial call in 1939 when refereeing a game involving the Toronto Maple Leafs when defenceman Red Horner was struck with a stick and Clarence Campbell doled out only a minor penalty, even though Horner was bleeding.
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Clarence Campbell rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel and was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1945.
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Dutton did not want the job and when Clarence Campbell returned to Canada in 1946, Dutton resigned and Clarence Campbell accepted the presidency.
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Clarence Campbell was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1966.
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Clarence Campbell was instrumental in the 1967 expansion, which doubled the league in size, and often worked 18 hours a day in his office.
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In 1976, Clarence Campbell was charged with bribing Senator Louis Giguere in the "Sky Shops" scandal.
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Clarence Campbell was convicted, but the NHL paid his fine and he served no time because of his age.
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Clarence Campbell was a sick man by the time he retired as NHL president in 1977, succeeded by John Ziegler Jr.
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Clarence Campbell spent the last years of his life plagued with respiratory ailments, and died on June 24,1984.
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Clarence Campbell was interred at the National Field of Honour in Pointe-Claire, Quebec.