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Charlie Snelling

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Charlie Snelling
Born (1886-09-21)September 21, 1886
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Died December 12, 1957(1957-12-12) (aged 71)
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Height 5 ft 5[1] in (165 cm)
Weight 169 lb (77 kg; 12 st 1 lb)
Position Centre
Played for Ottawa New Edinburghs
Ottawa Hockey Club
Playing career 1904–1911
Ottawa New Edinburghs in 1908. Alf Smith is in the back row, second from the left. Players left to right: Guy Boyce, Eddie Gerard, Morley Neate, Horace Merrill, Charlie Snelling, Jack Ryan and Lou Wright.

Charles Bratton Snelling (September 21, 1886 – December 12, 1957) was a Canadian amateur ice hockey centre forward, football player and paddler, primarily active during the first decade of the 1900s. He played ice hockey primarily with the Ottawa New Edinburghs team of the Ottawa City Hockey League and the Interprovincial Amateur Hockey Union, but also one game (scoring three goals) for the Ottawa Hockey Club during the 1907 ECAHA season.

Snelling was the leading goal scorer of the Ottawa City Hockey League in 1910, playing on a forward line alongside future Hockey Hall of Fame defenceman Eddie Gerard (then a winger), with the February 11, 1910 issue of the Ottawa Citizen describing Snelling as "being particularly effective round the nets of the opposing teams."[2]

References

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  1. ^ Personnel Records of the First World War – Description on Charles Bratton Snelling on Enlistment (World War I) Library and Archives Canada (bac-lac.gc.ca). Retrieved 2020-10-12.
  2. ^ "Charlie Snelling, Ottawa II. Hockey club." Ottawa Citizen. February 11, 1910 (pg. 8)