Paul Jacobs (ice hockey)

Paul Oronhyatekha Jacobs (February 23, 1893 – May 1, 1973)[1] was a Canadian professional ice hockey and lacrosse player. Jacobs played one game in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Toronto Arenas during the 1918–19 NHL season. Jacobs may have been the first aboriginal ice hockey player in the NHL.

Paul Jacobs
Born (1893-02-23)February 23, 1893
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Died May 1, 1973(1973-05-01) (aged 80)
Kahnawake, Quebec, Canada
Height 5 ft 8 in (173 cm)
Weight 160 lb (73 kg; 11 st 6 lb)
Position Defence
Shot Left
Played for Toronto Arenas
Playing career 19121925

Playing career

Jacobs c. 1922.

Jacobs was a resident of the Kahnawake Mohawk Territory, south of Montreal. Jacobs was proficient as a youth playing lacrosse. Photographs exist of Jacobs as a member of the reserve lacrosse team in 1910.

Jacobs was also proficient at ice hockey. He is first recorded on a hockey team with Dominion Bridge Company team in the 1912–13 season. Records exist for Jacobs playing for various teams from 1912 through 1916 and from 1917 through 1925, the last recorded team being the amateur Cleveland Ohio Blues of the USAHA.

Jacobs' record in the NHL is unclear. Jacobs was invited to the Toronto Arenas' training camp in December 1918. Jacobs potentially earned an opening-day roster spot but an announcement in the Toronto Globe indicated he was returning to the Montreal area instead. Jacobs played several games for the Montreal Stars of the Montreal Hockey League that season. Jacobs is recorded in referee reports for five games for Toronto between December 31 and February 4. However no newspaper reports list Jacobs as being in the lineup for any of those games. He may have been a substitute and did not play. Jacobs is recorded in an Ottawa paper for the opening-day December 23 game, but no other newspaper included Jacobs in the game report. An NHL report for the season records Jacobs as only participating in the December 31 game.[2][3]

US census records for 1930 and 1940 list Jacobs as living in Detroit with his wife Alice.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

Regular season Playoffs
Season Team League GPGAPtsPIM GPGAPtsPIM
1912–13 Montreal Stars MCHL 10003
1912–13 Montreal Dominion Bridge MTMHL 7303
1913–14 Montreal Dominion Bridge MTMHL 20000
1914–15 Montreal Nationale MCHL 10003
1914–15 St. Lawrence Bridge MTMHL
1915–16 New Haven Hockey Club USAHA
1917–18 Montreal Stars MCHL 91011115
1917–18 Leeside Indians Exhib
1918–19 Toronto Arenas NHL 10000
1918–19 Montreal Stars MCHL 7471127
1919–20 Laval University MCHL 1060624
1921–22 Quebec Voltigeurs QPHL 6213
1922–23 Cleveland Indians USAHA 16000
1923–24 Montreal Nationale ECHA 8000
1924–25 Cleveland Blues USAHA 9000
NHL totals 10000

Transactions

  • Signed as a free agent by the Toronto Arenas, December 15, 1918.

See also

References

  1. Hockey deaths - May 1973
  2. "Paul Jacobs Game Logs 1918–19". National Hockey League. Retrieved May 4, 2020. Although the NHL commonly recognizes Fred Sasakamoose as the league's first indigenous hockey player to compete in a regular season game, new research suggests that Henry "Buddy" Maracle played for the New York Rangers in the 1930s, meaning Maracle came before Sasakamoose at the very least.
  3. "Setting the record straight: Maracle should be recognized as trailblazer".
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