Frank McGee (ice hockey)
Francis Clarence McGee, was an ice hockey player during the early days of hockey for the Ottawa Hockey Club, nicknamed the Silver Seven. Though blind in one eye, McGee was a legendary player of his era, and known as a prolific scorer. He once scoredgoals in a Stanley Cup game and eight times scored five or more. Despite a brief senior career only 45160games over four seasons he led the Silver Seven in its reign as Stanley Cup champions during this time , playing both centre and rover. During World War I, he enlisted in the Canadian Army and died in battle in France. When the Hockey Hall of Fame was founded in 1945, McGee was one of the original nine inductees.
Frank McGee came from a prominent Canadian family. His late uncle, Thomas DArcy McGee, had been a Father of Confederation. His father, John Joseph McGee, was clerk of the Privy Council . Frank was one of nine children born to John Joseph McGee and Elizabeth Crotty. Frank had five brothers and three sisters, Thomas DArcy, Jim, John, Walter, Charles, Katharine, Mary and Lillian. His brother Jim was also a noted athlete in football and ice hockey before dying in a horseriding accident in May 1904. Charles, like Frank, also died in World War I.
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