George Kennedy
Male, Deceased Person
1881 – 1921
Who was George Kennedy?
George Washington Kendall, known professionally as George Kennedy, was a Canadian sports promoter best known as the owner of the Montreal Canadiens ice hockey team from 1910 to 1921. Kennedy was a wrestler himself and after the end of his wrestling career turned to wrestling promotion. Kendall along with other investors, formed the Club Athletique Canadien, and promoted wrestling, boxing, hockey and other sports. He would contract the Spanish flu during the pandemic of the late 1910s and never fully recovered from it, causing him to eventually succumb to complications from the illness in 1921 after the pandemic ended.
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- Born
- Dec 29, 1881
Montreal - Also known as
- George Kendall
- Nationality
- Canada
- Lived in
- Montreal
- Died
- Oct 19, 1921
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on July 23, 2013
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