Frank Fredrickson

Olympic medal record
Men's Ice hockey
Representing Canada

Frank Fredrickson
Frank Fredrickson
	Hockey Hall of Fame, 1958
	Frank Fredrickson representing Canada at the 1920 Summer Olympics.
Born	June 3, 1895; Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Died	May 28, 1979 (aged 83); Toronto, Ontario, Canada[1]
Height	5 ft 11 in (180 cm)
Weight	180 lb (82 kg; 12 st 12 lb)
Position	Centre
Shot	Left
Played for	Detroit Olympics (IHL); Detroit Falcons (NHL); Pittsburgh Pirates (NHL); Boston Bruins (NHL); Detroit Cougars (NHL); Victoria Cougars (WCHL); Victoria Cougars (PCHA); Victoria Aristocrats (PCHA)
National team	Canada
Playing career	1913–1932

Sigurður Franklin Fredrickson (June 3, 1895 – May 28, 1979) was an Icelandic-Canadian ice hockey player and coach who was significant to both the amateur and professional sport as it evolved in North America in the early 20th century.[2] Fredrickson's career was interrupted by military service during World War I and prematurely ended by a knee injury in 1931.[3]

Fredrickson with the Victoria Cougars.

The Icelandic spelling of his last name is Friðriksson and the alternate English spelling Frederickson.[4]

Early life

Fredrickson was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, to Icelandic immigrants Jón Vídalín Friðriksson and Guðlaug S. Sigurðardóttir.[4]

Amateur career

Fredrickson attended Kelvin Technical Institute and Central Collegiate before enrolling at the University of Manitoba law school, where he captained the hockey team. After serving in the 196th Battalion, the 223rd Battalion, and the Royal Flying Corps in World War I, he captained the Winnipeg Falcons,[5] to the 1920 Allan Cup and then to the first gold medal offered in the sport at the 1920 Olympics at Antwerp.[6]

Professional career

Professionally, Fredrickson played for the Victoria Cougars of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association and the Boston Bruins, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Detroit Falcons in the National Hockey League. He helped Victoria win the Stanley Cup in 1925.

On January 18, 1927, Fredrickson scored four goals in a single game for Boston in the Bruins' 7-3 victory over the New York Rangers. He became the second Bruin to achieve this feat. Teammate Harry Oliver had done it exactly one week before.

On December 21, 1928 Fredrickson was traded from the Boston Bruins to the Pittsburgh Pirates for Mickey MacKay. When the Stanley Cup was redone during the 1957–58 NHL season his name was engraved, contrary to NHL rules, on the Cup with the 1929 Bruins. Fredrickson was a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates the day Boston won the Cup. This made him ineligible to be on the cup with Boston.

Fredrickson coached hockey and lacrosse after his retirement. He coached the Pittsburgh Pirates during the 1929–1930 season, when he also played 9 games, but the team went 5-36-3 and moved to Philadelphia the next season before folding. In 1933, Fredrickson was named coach of the Princeton University ice hockey team.[7] Fredrickson was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1958[1] and is also a member of the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame and Museum. Fredrickson was of Icelandic and Irish heritage.

Playing style

"... Freddie was a bit nervous at the start, and was cut across the legs by the hot Skinner, who drew a penalty. In the second period Freddie got his legs, and in the final session he was a perfect marvel. His skating, stickhandling and dazzling speed as well as his terrific shot made him a most dangerous man. Vancouver tried to box him, but he was too fast, and was continually on top of Lehman."

Victoria Daily Times describing Fredrickson's first professional game with the Victoria Aristocrats on January 1, 1921.[8]

Fredrickson was a natural centre forward, a left-hand shot, and with all the valuable traits of a franchise pivot man: skating, speed, stick-handling, size and a terrific shot.

When Fredrickson made his long-awaited professional debut in the PCHA with the Victoria Aristocrats against the Vancouver Millionaires on New Year's Day 1921 he was already 25 years old and an Allan Cup and Olympic champion, and the anticipations among the home fans in Victoria were sky high, although there were also some doubters who wondered if he could star in the PCHA circuit. Fredrickson did not let anyone down, when he was finally let on by coach Lester Patrick after 10 minutes of play, after he had shaken off his last nerves. During the last period of the game Fredrickson had one goal and two assists when Victoria turned the game around and won 5 goals to 3, with the local newspaper Victoria Daily Times hailing him as the new "Babe Ruth of hockey" and claiming that "he showed everything and lacked nothing."[8]

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

			Regular season					Playoffs
Season	Team	League	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
1913–14	Winnipeg Falcons	MHL-Sr.	11	13	7	20	0	—	—	—	—	—
1914–15	Winnipeg Falcons	MHL-Sr.	8	10	5	15	0	1	1	0	1	0
1915–16	Winnipeg Falcons	MHL-Sr.	6	13	3	16	14	—	—	—	—	—
1916–17	Winnipeg 223rd Battalion	MHL-Sr.	8	17	3	20	40	—	—	—	—	—
1919–20	Winnipeg Falcons	MHL-Sr.	10	23	5	28	12	6	22	5	27	2
1920–21	Victoria Aristocrats	PCHA	21	20	12	32	3	—	—	—	—	—
1921–22	Victoria Aristocrats	PCHA	24	15	10	25	26	—	—	—	—	—
1922–23	Victoria Cougars	PCHA	30	39	16	55	26	2	2	0	2	4
1923–24	Victoria Cougars	PCHA	30	19	8	27	28	—	—	—	—	—
1924–25	Victoria Cougars	WCHL	28	22	8	30	43	4	3	1	4	2
1924–25*	Victoria Cougars	St-Cup	—	—	—	—	—	4	3	2	5	6
1925–26	Victoria Cougars	WHL	30	16	8	24	89	4	2	1	3	6
1925–26	Victoria Cougars	St-Cup	—	—	—	—	—	4	1	1	2	10
1926–27	Detroit Cougars	NHL	16	4	6	10	12	—	—	—	—	—
1926–27	Boston Bruins	NHL	28	14	7	21	33	8	2	2	4	20
1927–28	Boston Bruins	NHL	41	10	4	14	83	2	0	1	1	4
1928–29*	Boston Bruins	NHL	12	3	1	4	24	—	—	—	—	—
1928–29	Pittsburgh Pirates	NHL	31	3	7	10	28	—	—	—	—	—
1929–30	Pittsburgh Pirates	NHL	9	4	7	11	20	—	—	—	—	—
1930–31	Detroit Falcons	NHL	24	1	2	3	6	—	—	—	—	—
1930–31	Detroit Olympics	IHL	6	0	1	1	2	—	—	—	—	—
PCHA totals			105	93	46	139	83	2	2	0	2	4
WCHL/WHL totals			58	38	16	54	132	8	5	2	7	8
NHL totals			161	39	34	73	206	10	2	3	5	24

* Stanley Cup Champion.

All statistics taken from NHL.com[9]

Awards and achievements

Fredrickson (far left in the back row, right behind the lady) with the Winnipeg Falcons en route to the 1920 Olympics.

Allan Cup championship (1920)
Olympic gold medalist (1920)
PCHA First All-Star Team (1921, 1922, 1923, and 1924)
PCHA Scoring Champion (1923)
PCHA Goals Leader (1923)
Stanley Cup championships (1925 and 1929)
WCHL First All-Star Team (1926)
Inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1958
Selected to Manitoba's All-Century Second All-Star Team
Inducted into the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame and Museum in 1981
Honoured Member of the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame

Coaching statistics

Coaching record

Team	Year	Regular season						Post season
Team	Year	G	W	L	T	Pts	Division rank	Result
PIT	1929–30	44	5	36	3	13	5th in American	Missed playoffs

References

Hockey Hall of Fame 2003, p. 28.
"Frank Fredrickson Biography". legendsofhockety.net. Retrieved 2008-08-26.
"Frank Fredrickson Biography". Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 2007-10-21. Retrieved 2008-08-26.
"Winnipeg Falcons - Military Biographies". Icelandic Veteran's Database (in Icelandic). 1923. Retrieved 2008-08-26.
"Spalding, as reproduced on Winnipeg falcons.com". Spalding's Athletic Library. 1919. Retrieved 2008-08-26.
"Winners in first Olympic ice hockey tournament" Victoria Daily Times, April 28, 1920 (p. 10). Retrieved 2020-07-27.
"Tigers Here Saturday". The Baltimore Sun. December 31, 1933. p. 11.
"Frederickson Will Be Babe Ruth of the P.C.H.A.", Victoria Daily Times. Jan. 3, 1921 (p. 12). Retrieved 2020-07-27.
NHL.com (2009). "Frank Fredrickson's NHL Profile". NHL.com. Retrieved 2009-03-03.

General references

Sigurdur Franklin "Frank" Fredrickson at Manitoba Historical Society
Hockey Hall of Fame (2003). Honoured Members: Hockey Hall of Fame. Bolton, Ontario: Fenn Publishing. ISBN 1-55168-239-7.

External links

Biographical information and career statistics from NHL.com, or Eliteprospects.com, or Eurohockey.com, or Hockey-Reference.com, or Legends of Hockey, or The Internet Hockey Database

Preceded by Odie Cleghorn	Head coach of the Pittsburgh Pirates 1929–30	Succeeded by Philadelphia Quakers coaches Cooper Smeaton

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[FOOTNOTEHockey_Hall_of_Fame200328-1] Hockey Hall of Fame 2003, p. 28.

[Legends-2] "Frank Fredrickson Biography". legendsofhockety.net. Retrieved 2008-08-26.

[Manitoba-3] "Frank Fredrickson Biography". Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 2007-10-21. Retrieved 2008-08-26.

[Military-4] "Winnipeg Falcons - Military Biographies". Icelandic Veteran's Database (in Icelandic). 1923. Retrieved 2008-08-26.

[Spalding-5] "Spalding, as reproduced on Winnipeg falcons.com". Spalding's Athletic Library. 1919. Retrieved 2008-08-26.

[6] "Winners in first Olympic ice hockey tournament" Victoria Daily Times, April 28, 1920 (p. 10). Retrieved 2020-07-27.

[7] "Tigers Here Saturday". The Baltimore Sun. December 31, 1933. p. 11.

[Times-8] "Frederickson Will Be Babe Ruth of the P.C.H.A.", Victoria Daily Times. Jan. 3, 1921 (p. 12). Retrieved 2020-07-27.

[NHL_Bio-9] NHL.com (2009). "Frank Fredrickson's NHL Profile". NHL.com. Retrieved 2009-03-03.

Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey
Playing venues	Lake Carnegie (1907–1923) Hobey Baker Memorial Rink (1923–present)
Head coaches	Russell O. Ellis (1920–1921) M. J. MacDonald (1921–1922) Chippy Gaw (1922–1924) Beattie Ramsay (1924–1927) Lloyd Neidlinger (1927–1933) Frank Fredrickson (1933–1935) Richard Vaughan (1935–1943, 1946–1959) R. Norman Wood (1959–1965) Johnny Wilson (1965–1967) Bill Quackenbush (1967–1973) Jack Semler (1973–1977) Jim Higgins (1977–1991) Don Cahoon (1991–2000) Len Quesnelle (2000–2004) Guy Gadowsky (2004–2011) Bob Prier (2011–2014) Ron Fogarty (2014–present)
Seasons	1899–00 1900–01 1901–02 1902–03 1903–04 1904–05 1905–06 1906–07 1907–08 1908–09 1909–10 1910–11 1911–12 1912–13 1913–14 1914–15 1915–16 1916–17 1918–19 1919–20 1920–21 1921–22 1922–23 1923–24 1924–25 1925–26 1926–27 1927–28 1928–29 1929–30 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–00 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21
Conference affiliations	ECAC Hockey (1961–present)
All-time leaders	John Messuri (178 Points) Ryan Kuffner (75 Goals) Zane Kalemba (57 Wins)
NCAA Tournament appearances	1998 2008 2009 2018
Conference Tournament titles	ECAC: 1998 2008 2018
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