John Cross
Nov. 12, 1933 – Feb. 21, 2010 Cambridge’s John Cross would have been extremely honoured to know he was being inducted into the Cambridge Sports Hall of Fame, said his daughter Janis Dunning. “For more than 30 years my Dad gave selflessly to minor sports, filling just about every role at some point.” Cross grew […]
Dorothy Kerr
July 2, 1912 – Feb. 13, 2013 At the time of her induction, Dorothy Kerr was less than two months shy of her 100th birthday.Skip Dorothy Babcock, second from left, is pictured with Marnie Kersell (vice), Kathleen Findlay (2nd) and Donna Woods (lead) in this autumn 1967 photo. And during that time she participated in […]
Gus Kitzman
Born in Radisson, Saskatchewan, the late Walter Gustave “Gus” Kitzman gave a lifetime to local sports, with heavy involvements in both hockey and baseball as coach, official and builder. “If he was needed,” said son Larry, “he went.” Kitzman came to Hespeler in the 1930s as a young boy when his family moved to a […]
Lex Chisholm
April 15, 1915 – Aug. 6, 1981 Alexander “Lex” Chisholm was one of this city’s top hockey players in the first half of the 20th century. A Galt native, he was a contempo- rary of another Galt player, Carl Liscombe – the two were born a month apart and were in the same class at […]
Eion Leggatt
Eion Donald Leggatt is regarded as the city’s best-ever golfer. Leggatt grew up in Cambridge and attended Galt Collegiate Institute. He began playing golf at an early age. His father Jack, loved the game and was in- strumental in not only getting him started in the game, but in developing junior golf in the city. […]
Preston Intermediates 1911-12
Amateur hockey in the era just before the First World War was much different than the game we know today. Body checking wasn’t allowed, and there were no substitutions permitted. Teams played with seven players –the six positions we are familiar with today, plus a rover – for two 30-minute halves. During this era, Preston’s […]
Hutchinson & McGrigor
Jamie McGrigor and Kathy Hutchinson were home grown figure skaters who peaked in the early 1970s with the Preston Figure Skating Club (PFSC) under the tutelage of coach Kerry Leitch. Hutchinson, 5′ 2″ and 108 lbs., was born in Paris, Ontario and moved to Preston when she was five years old. She began skating at age 10 […]
Jimmy Broomfield
Dec. 1, 1912 – March 16, 2013 Jimmy Broomfield, who was still curling at age 100, was legendary in curling circles throughout Canada and the northeastern U.S. He was the quintessential ambassador for the game, encouraging countless people over the years to get involved in the sport he loved. Broomfield was a born and bred […]
Jim Cox
Jim Cox started teaching at the age of 18 in a rural school outside of Harriston, Ontario. Two years later, in 1963, the Lucknow native (Paul Henderson’s home town) accepted a position with the Galt Board of Education and moved to town, where he taught Grade 4 at Dickson Public School. There was no gym […]
Harry Greenan
The Greenan name is synonymous with tennis in Cambridge, and it all started with Harry Greenan. In 2011, he won A Tennis Canada Excellence Award as the TPA Coach of the Year Award Greenan not only groomed a number of local players to national and international prominence, but has long been recognized as a Canadian coaching […]