1. Tommy Gorman was a founder of the National Hockey League, won the Stanley Cup seven times as a general manager with four teams, and an Olympic gold medal-winning lacrosse player for Canada.
24 Facts About Tommy Gorman
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Tommy Gorman was one of six children born to Thomas Patrick Gorman and Mary K Gorman.
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Tommy Gorman was a parliamentary page boy as a youth, but sports were his love.
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Tommy Gorman was the youngest member of the Canadian lacrosse team that won the gold medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics.
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Tommy Gorman then played professionally for a number of seasons.
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Tommy Gorman became a sports writer at the Ottawa Citizen, eventually becoming the sports editor.
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Tommy Gorman did it so capably that he was hired as secretary-treasurer.
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Tommy Gorman became the manager and part-owner of the Senators at that time.
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Tommy Gorman helped lead the team to Stanley Cups in 1920,1921, and 1923.
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Tommy Gorman sold his interest in the Senators in 1925 to Frank Ahearn and became manager-coach of the New York Americans, introducing professional hockey to New York City.
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Tommy Gorman resigned from the Americans in 1929 to get involved in horse racing.
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Tommy Gorman managed the Agua Caliente Racetrack in Mexico from 1929 until 1932.
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In 1932, Tommy Gorman brought the horse Phar Lap to Mexico, where the horse won the $100,000 Agua Caliente Handicap before dying under mysterious circumstances in San Francisco.
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Ten days after the Cup victory, Tommy Gorman resigned after a dispute with the owner.
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Tommy Gorman went to Montreal as their manager-coach and helped the Montreal Maroons to their final Cup in 1935, thus becoming the first coach to win consecutive Stanley Cups with different teams.
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Tommy Gorman coached the Maroons until the club folded in 1938.
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Tommy Gorman is the only person to manage four different teams to championships: the Senators, Black Hawks, Maroons and Canadiens.
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Tommy Gorman had Duke Ellington and Frank Sinatra perform at the Forum.
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Tommy Gorman took figure skater Barbara Ann Scott on a continental tour after she won the figure skating gold medal at the 1948 Winter Olympics.
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Tommy Gorman revived professional wrestling in Montreal and promoted it in Ottawa, and introduced professional baseball to Ottawa in 1951 with the Ottawa Giants of the International League.
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Tommy Gorman was managing the race track when he died of cancer at a hospital in Ottawa at the age of 74.
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Tommy Gorman was the last living founder of the NHL.
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Tommy Gorman has been inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, the Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame, and the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame.
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Tommy Gorman was married in 1910 to Mary Westwick, sister of Rat Westwick, one of the "Silver Seven", and was an uncle to Bill Westwick.