Blake Watson
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Blake Watson (October 18, 1903 – May 19, 1998) was a Canadian ice hockey left winger who played for the University of Manitoba Grads team that won the 1931 World Championship.
He moved to Europe in 1925 to study dentistry in Vienna and served as a playing-coach with Wiener EV. Watson, who also played and coached in Prague, Czechoslovakia (with LTC Praha) and Zurich, Switzerland (with Grasshopper Club), was a key figure in the development of European hockey in the 1920s and early 1930s.
Awards and achievements
- Memorial Cup Championship (1923)
- Allan Cup Championship (1928)
- IIHF World Championship (1931)
- “Honoured Member” of the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame
