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Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1999. Born in Kirkcaldy on December 18th, 1958 Gordon
John Latto was to become a highly respected defencemen in the Heineken League
era. Five years old when he first started skating, Latto began
playing hockey three years later in Kirkcaldy for the Fife Flyers. Apart
from the 1975/76 season, which as a teenager he spent in Sweden and five
games in the 1982/83 season with the Dundee Rockets, Gordon Latto played
his whole career with the Flyers taking part in well over six hundred
games. Originally a centre, he dropped back on to the blueline
and became a very solid performer throughout his career. Between 1976
and 1979, he was three years in a row, the Northern League Player of the
Year and also went on to achieve a hat trick of All Star selections from
’77 to ’80. As the Northern League’s top scorer in the 1979/80
season, he won the Earl Carlson Trophy and he went on to be a member of
the Fife team that won the Heineken British Championship at Wembley in
1985. Gordon Latto’s domestic statistical record spanned a
fifteen-year period from 1983 to 1998 and reads:-
In those days when the Great
Britain team really was British, Gordon Latto represented his country in
four World Championships between 1976 and 1989. On national team duty,
he posted figures of:-
In the days when players move around from club to club
regularly, many a coach would like to enlist the kind of dedicated and
loyalty personified in Gordon Latto. Compiled with research, provided by Martin C.Harris – March 1999 |
