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The Niagara puck he watched at seventeen that made him quit tennis

The Niagara puck he watched at seventeen that made him quit tennis

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A top American tennis player at 20, Malcolm Greene Chace walks away from his sport at its peak. He trades his racket for a hockey stick after a chance encounter.

The Niagara puck he watched at seventeen that made him quit tennis

This episode explores the unexpected pivot of Malcolm Greene Chace, a tennis prodigy who became a pivotal figure in American hockey. It delves into the influences and decisions that led him to abandon a promising tennis career for a sport he barely knew.

Person: Malcolm Greene Chace
Date: March 12, 1875 (birth)
Location: Central Falls, Rhode Island
Event: First intercollegiate hockey match in the United States
Teams: Yale vs. Johns Hopkins

- Malcolm Greene Chace was the youngest state tennis champion in Rhode Island history at age fourteen.
- By eighteen ninety-three, Chace had won the national college championship and the Narragansett Pier Open.
- At eighteen, Chace defeated Bill Larned, who would later win the United States National Championship seven times.
- In the fall of eighteen ninety-two, Chace observed members of the Victoria Hockey Club playing hockey in Niagara Falls, Ontario.
- In the winter of eighteen ninety-four into eighteen ninety-five, Chace assembled a hockey team from Yale, Brown, Harvard, and Columbia to travel to Canada.

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