George Orton
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George Washington F. Orton was a Canadian middle and long-distance runner. In 1900, he became the first Canadian to win a medal at an Olympic Games. He won a bronze in the 400 metre hurdles, and then,
Orton wearing his University of Pennsylvania uniform in 1897
University of Pennsylvania team in front of photo of College Hall in 1896–97, its first season of existence, featuring George Orton (Top row, second from the end (of the right side, viewer's perspective).
The American Amateur Hockey League was an amateur ice hockey league in the United States. The league was founded in 1896, and was based in New York City and New Jersey, until 1914, when the Boston AA
George Orton
…Orton founded the Philadelphia Hockey League in 1897, and the following year formed the Quaker City Hockey Club which played in the highly-competitive American Amateur Hockey League. From 1920 to 1922, Orton coached the Penn Varsity hockey team. Years earlier, while attending the University of Toronto, he helped form the first…
Championship trophy of the league.
New York Athletic Club in the inaugural 1896–97 season.
Brooklyn Skating Club in the 1903–04 season.
St. Nicholas Hockey Club in 1905–06.