Hubert Brooks

Hubert Brooks
Born Bluesky, AB, CAN
Died Ottawa, ON, CAN
National team  Canada
Playing career 1948–1948
Olympic medal record
Men's ice hockey

Competitor for Canada
Gold 1948 St. Moritz Ice hockey

Hubert Brooks (deceased) was a Canadian ice hockey player. He was a member of the Ottawa RCAF Flyers who won the gold medal in ice hockey for Canada at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz.[1][2]

The 1948 Winter Olympics were to be held in St. Moritz, Switzerland. They were then officially known as the V Olympic Winter Games as they were the first Olympic games to be celebrated after World War II. In the fall of 1947, the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association invited the RCAF to form Canada’s Olympic ice hockey squad.[3]

Although Brooks traveled to St. Moritz as a member of Canada national hockey team, due to tournament rules that allowed teams to dress only twelve players, Brooks was used as a reserve and did not get into game play during the 1948 Olympics. Nonetheless, Brooks was a member of the team that won Canada’s first gold medal in Olympic hockey since 1932, and he was given an Olympic Gold Medal.

References

  1. ^ "RCAF Flyers - 1948 Olympic Gold medalists". Spiritus-temporis.com. http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/rcaf-flyers/1948-olympic-gold-medalists.html. Retrieved 2010-07-03. 
  2. ^ "Athletes Of The Century Chosen By The Military". Legion Magazine. 2001-01-01. http://www.legionmagazine.com/en/index.php/2001/01/athletes-of-the-century-chosen-by-the-military/. Retrieved 2010-07-03. 
  3. ^ "The Hougen Group of Companies - A Yukon Tradition". Hougengroup.com. http://www.hougengroup.com/yukonHistory/nuggets_year/2000s.aspx?nugget=1948. Retrieved 2010-07-03.