Dit Clapper
Ice Hockey, Ice hockey player
1907 – 1978
Who was Dit Clapper?
Aubrey Victor "Dit" Clapper was a Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey player, playing his entire professional career for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League.
Clapper was the first NHL player to play twenty seasons, and one of only two to be an All-Star at both forward and defence. The right wing on the powerful "Dynamite Line"—one of the first forward combinations to receive a nickname in hockey history—along with linemates Cooney Weiland and Dutch Gainor, he contributed to the breaking of several scoring records in the 1930s. Towards the end of his career, he was named player-coach of the Bruins, and held the coaching position after his retirement as a player.
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- Born
- Feb 9, 1907
Newmarket - Nationality
- Canada
- Profession
- Lived in
- Newmarket
- Died
- Jan 20, 1978
Newmarket
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on July 23, 2013
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