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Howard Baldwin Trophy

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ495200 ↗
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The Howard Baldwin Trophy was presented annually to the World Hockey Association's coach of the year.

It was named in honour of New England Whalers co-founder Howard Baldwin. The trophy was renamed Robert Schmertz Memorial Trophy in 1974 in honour of Schmertz, an executive with the Whalers who died that year.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Howard Baldwin Trophy” as award. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1974—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1972. The account is most persuasive where Howard, Baldwin and Trophy can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as award. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q495200. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1974.

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This entry incorporates text from “Howard Baldwin Trophy” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.