Ice hockey at the 1936 Winter Olympics
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In a shocking upset at the 1936 Winter Olympics, the perpetual powerhouse Canada did not win Gold. Instead, Great Britain won the men's ice hockey competition, although all but one player had trained and played previously in Canada sometime during their career. However, all but one of the British team players were actually British. It is a common misconception that the British team was made up of Canadians. Only one player was actually born in Canada.
| Gold: | Silver: | Bronze: |
 Great BritainJames Foster Carl Erhardt Gordon Dailley Archibald Stinchcombe Edgar Brenchley John Coward James Chappell Alexander Archer Gerry Davey James Borland Robert Wyman John Kilpatrick |
 CanadaFrancis Moore Arthur Nash Herman Murray Walter Kitchen Raymond Milton David Neville Kenneth Farmer Hugh Farquharson Maxwell Deacon Alexander Sinclair William Thomson James Haggarty Ralph Saint Germain |
 United StatesThomas Moone Francis Shaugnessy Philip LaBatte Frank Stubbs John Garrison Paul Rowe John Lax Gordon Smith Elbridge Ross Francis Spain August Kammer |
Contents |
[edit] Preliminaries
Top two teams in each group advanced to semifinals
[edit] Group A
 |
Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Canada |
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 3 | 6 |
 Austria |
3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 7 | 4 |
 Poland |
3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 12 | 2 |
 Latvia |
3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 27 | 0 |
| 6 Feb | Canada |
8-1 (5-0,2-1,1-0) |
 Poland |
| 7 Feb | Canada |
11-0 (2-0,3-0,6-0) |
 Latvia |
| 7 Feb |  Austria |
2-1 (0-0,0-0,2-1) |
Poland |
| 8 Feb | Canada |
5-2 (4-0,1-2,0-0) |
Austria |
| 8 Feb | Poland |
9-2 (1-0,4-0,4-2) |
Latvia |
| 9 Feb | Austria |
7-1 (4-0,0-0,3-1) |
Latvia |
[edit] Group B
|
Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Germany |
3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 4 |
 United States |
3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 4 |
 Italy |
3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
 Switzerland |
3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
| 6 Feb | Germany |
0-1 (0-1,0-0,0-0) |
 United States |
| 7 Feb | United States |
3-0 (0-0,3-0,0-0) |
Switzerland |
| 7 Feb | Germany |
3-0 (1-0,1-0,1-0) |
 Italy |
| 8 Feb | Germany |
2-0 (0-0,1-0,1-0) |
Switzerland |
| 8 Feb | United States |
1-2 (0-0,0-0,1-1,0-0,0-1) |
Italy |
| 9 Feb | Switzerland |
1-0 (0-0,1-0,0-0) |
Italy |
[edit] Group C
|
Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Czechoslovakia |
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 6 |
 Hungary |
3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 5 | 4 |
 France |
3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 2 |
 Belgium |
3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 20 | 0 |
| 6 Feb | Hungary |
11-2 (1-1,2-0,8-0) |
 Belgium |
| 7 Feb |  Czechoslovakia |
5-0 (0-0,4-0,1-0) |
Belgium |
| 7 Feb | Hungary |
3-0 (0-0,1-0,2-0) |
 France |
| 8 Feb | Czechoslovakia |
3-0 (1-0,1-0,1-0) |
Hungary |
| 8 Feb | France |
4-2 ja (1-0,0-1,0-0,1-1,2-0) |
Belgium |
| 9 Feb | Czechoslovakia |
2-0 (0-0,1-0,1-0) |
France |
[edit] Group D
|
Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Great Britain |
2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
 Sweden |
2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
 Japan |
2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 6 Feb | Great Britain |
1-0 (1-0,0-0,0-0) |
Sweden |
| 7 Feb | Great Britain |
3-0 (2-0,0-0,1-0) |
 Japan |
| 8 Feb | Sweden |
2-0 (1-0,1-0,0-0) |
Japan |
[edit] Semifinals
Top two teams in each group advanced to Medal Round.
[edit] Group A
|
Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Great Britain |
3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 5 |
| Canada |
3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 4 | 4 |
| Germany |
3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 3 |
| Hungary |
3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 22 | 0 |
| 11 Feb | Germany |
2-1 (0-0,1-0,1-1) |
Hungary |
| 11 Feb | Great Britain |
2-1 (1-1,0-0,1-0) |
Canada |
| 12 Feb | Germany |
1-1 (0-0,0-1,1-0,0-0) |
Great Britain |
| 12 Feb | Canada |
15-0 (3-0,9-0,3-0) |
Hungary |
| 13 Feb | Great Britain |
5-1 (1-0,3-1,1-0) |
Hungary |
| 13 Feb | Germany |
2-6 (0-1,0-3,2-2) |
Canada |
[edit] Group B
|
Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States |
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| Czechoslovakia |
3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 4 |
| Sweden |
3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 2 |
| Austria |
3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 11 Feb | United States |
2-0 (0-0,2-0,0-0) |
Czechoslovakia |
| 11 Feb | Sweden |
1-0 (1-0,0-0,0-0) |
Austria |
| 12 Feb | United States |
1-0 (0-0,1-0,0-0) |
Austria |
| 12 Feb | Czechoslovakia |
4-1 (0-1,2-0,2-0) |
Sweden |
| 13 Feb | United States |
2-1 (0-0,1-1,1-0) |
Sweden |
| 13 Feb | Czechoslovakia |
2-1 (0-0,2-1,0-0) |
Austria |
[edit] Medal Round
|
Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Great Britain |
3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 5 |
| Canada |
3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 4 |
| United States |
3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Czechoslovakia |
3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0 |
| 11 Feb | Great Britain |
2-1 (1-1, 0-0, 1-0) |
Canada |
| 11 Feb | United States |
2-0 (0-0, 2-0, 0-0) |
Czechoslovakia |
| 14 Feb | Great Britain |
5-0 (2-0,3-0,0-0) |
Czechoslovakia |
| 15 Feb | Canada |
7-0 (3-0,3-0,1-0) |
Czechoslovakia |
| 15 Feb | Great Britain |
0-0 (0-0,0-0,0-0,0-0,0-0,0-0) |
United States |
| 16 Feb | Canada |
1-0 (1-0,0-0,0-0) |
United States |
N.B. - After the semifinal round, officials announced that any games played between finalists in the semifinals would be counted as games in the finals. Thus, the 11 February games of Canada vs. Great Britain and the United States vs. Czechoslovakia were counted as games in the final round, hence their replication in both tables. [1]
[edit] Final Rankings
1. 
Great Britain
2. Canada
3. United States
4. Czechoslovakia
5. Germany
5. Sweden
7. Hungary
7. Austria
[edit] References
"International Hockey" by Dennis Gibbons
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