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Harvey Pulford
Harvey Pulford was born in 1875 in Toronto, Canada and died on the 31st of October 1940. He demonstrated his exceptional athletic skills early and at the age of 13 he was declared overall sports champion at the Ottawa Model School. In 1892 he began playing defense for the Ottawa Hockey Club of the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada. Tutored by Weldy Young, Pulford remained a fixture of the club until his retirement in 1908.
Pulford was elected to the Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame in 1966. Pulford took his place in the National Hockey League Hall of Fame as a charter member in 1945. In 1901 he altered his style of play from merely flipping the puck out of his own end to carrying the puck up the ice toward the opposing team's net. During the period 1902 to 1905, Pulford captained the Ottawa Hockey Club, which came to be known as the Silver Seven. His partnership with Art Moore proved to be a formidable barrier to onrushing forwards. This team dominated the Canadian Amateur Hockey League and the Federal Amateur Hockey League while winning or defending the Stanley Cup several times between 1903 and 1905.
Ottawa's first Stanley Cup, in March 1903, was highlighted by an 8-0 rout of the Montreal Victorias. A few days later Pulford's crew successfully fended off the challenge of the Rat Portage, later Kenora, club of northwestern Ontario. In December the same year they overcame the Winnipeg Rowing Club in a battle that lasted three games. Pulford contributed a goal in Ottawa's successful defense of the Stanley Cup against the Toronto Marlboros of the Ontario Hockey Association in February 1904. A month later they weathered the challenge of Brandon, the Manitoba champions.
The 1905 season brought the Ottawa club the championship of the FAHL. In January of that year they suppressed the Cup ambitions of the Dawson City squad by an aggregate score of 32-4. Two months later, the highly skilled Rat Portage outfit from Ontario's northwest dominated the opening match, but Ottawa equalized two days later to set the stage for a memorable deciding game. Pulford, who was instructed to throw his weight around throughout the contest, was superb against the speedy Rat Portage forwards in a 5-4 Ottawa victory. A year later came his last two successful Cup defenses against Queen's University and Smiths Falls.
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