5902 EDWARD COLE “EDDIE” OATMAN
5902 EDWARD COLE9 (Archie
8, Warren7, George6, Oscar5, Benjamin4, George3, John2, Johannes1), son of Archie and
Frankie (Smith) Oatman, was born 10 June 1889 in Springford, Oxford County,
Ontario, and died 5 November 1973 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is buried in Springford Cemetery,
Springford, Ontario.
Eddie was married
on 31 March 1921 to Mary Helen Durning in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Eddie began
playing organized ice hockey at age 10 and continued for the next eight years
in youth leagues in his hometown. His
professional hockey career began in 1907 with the Tillsonburg (Ontario) Junior Ontario
Hockey Association.
Though Eddie never
played with the National Hockey League, he was among the elite goal scorers of
his era. During his 32 years (1907-1939)
of playing professional ice hockey, Eddie was picked ten straight years as an
all-star with the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA). He was a star with the Quebec club when it
won the 1912 Stanley Cup. Eddie played
with clubs that won five league championships, and he was a successful coach
and captain of five different hockey teams. Eddie Oatman was featured in
Ripley's Believe It or Not for "32 Years of Hockey", beginning in
1907 in Tillsonburg, Ontario, and running until 1939 when he retired from his
playing career. Eddie had one son,
surname Oatman:
A Ted, b. ca 1922
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