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Inducted
in 1993 as a member of the 1936 Great Britain Olympic Championship team. Left-winger Johnny
Coward was born October 28th, 1910 in Ambleside in the Lake
District, England, but grew up in
Fort Frances Ontario, Canada. He returned to these shores in 1935
spending two seasons with the Richmond Hawks scoring 10 points in the
English National League. Coward played in six of
the seven GB games in the famous ’36 Olympic triumph, scoring one goal
along the way. Retaining his place in the GB squad, he went onto win a
European title medal the following season, 1937. With the outbreak of
war, he spent four years overseas as an instructor in the Military
Police, before returning to Fort Frances to work in a paper mill until
1969. Moving back into the world of sport, he ran a pro-golf shop and
coached minor league hockey. Compiled
with research, provided by Martin C.Harris – July 1998 |
