Thomas Coulter (ice hockey)
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Thomas Henry "Tom" Coulter (April 21, 1911 – December 17, 2003) was a professional ice hockey
defenceman who played two National Hockey League
games for the Chicago Black Hawks
during the 1933–34 NHL season as a way to pay for tuition as an Engineer. He was brother to Arthur Coulter and was the first NHL player to play in an Australia ice hockey league.
In addition to hockey Coulter was an accomplished all around athlete having played football
and setting track and field
records including 29th fastest in the world in 1931.http://homepage.mac.com/carpenter.architects/icelife46/future/1stIceChampions-hockey.html#Coulter
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
defenceman who played two National Hockey League
National Hockey League
The National Hockey League is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are currently located in Canada and 23 in the United States...
games for the Chicago Black Hawks
Chicago Blackhawks
The Chicago Blackhawks are a professional ice hockey team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . They have won four Stanley Cup championships since their founding in 1926, most recently coming in 2009-10...
during the 1933–34 NHL season as a way to pay for tuition as an Engineer. He was brother to Arthur Coulter and was the first NHL player to play in an Australia ice hockey league.
In addition to hockey Coulter was an accomplished all around athlete having played football
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
and setting track and field
Track and field
Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...
records including 29th fastest in the world in 1931.http://homepage.mac.com/carpenter.architects/icelife46/future/1stIceChampions-hockey.html#Coulter