Ice hockey at the 1920 Summer Olympics – Rosters
Wikimedia list article
The 1920 Summer Olympics ice hockey rosters consisted of 60 players on 7 national ice hockey teams. Played at the Olympic Games for the first time, and later regarded by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) as the first World Championship. Teams were required to be strictly amateur, so players from the Canadian-based National Hockey League (NHL) or other professional leagues were excluded. Canada sent the Winnipeg Falcons, who had won the 1920 Allan Cup, the amateur championship in Canada.
The matches were played 7 per side with 3 forwards, 2 defencemen, a rover, and a goaltender with no substitutions during the match. Due to the tournaments format that saw some teams only play a single match several teams brought players that would never see the ice.
Legend
Teams
Belgium
Coach: Paul Loicq
Canada
Canada elected to send the Winnipeg Falcons who won the 1920 Allan Cup, a championship to declare the top amateur hockey team in the country.
Coach: Guðmundur Sigurjónsson
Czechoslovakia
Coach: Adolf Dušek
France
Coach: Ernie Garon
Sweden
Nils Molander, David Säfwenberg and Hans-Jacob Mattsson had ice hockey experience outside Sweden but the rest were drawn from local bandy clubs.
Coach: Raoul Le Mat
Switzerland
Coach: Max Sillig
United States
Originally the United States planned to send the winner of an elimination playoff but ultimately scrapped the idea.
“Ice hockey at the 1920 Summer Olympics – Rosters” enters the record as wikimedia list article. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what hockey, Summer and Olympics can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Ice hockey at the 1920 Summer Olympics – Rosters” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, hockey, Summer and Olympics provides the most credible route into that argument.
The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 16, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q20439925. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1920.
The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.
- Subject orientation
- Search vocabulary
- Locating named sources
The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “Ice hockey at the 1920 Summer Olympics – Rosters”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow Ice hockey at the 1920 Summer Olympics – Rosters primary sources, Ice hockey at the 1920 Summer Olympics – Rosters archive and hockey research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Ice hockey at the 1920 Summer Olympics – Rosters”?
- What terminology or title could unlock a more precise catalogue search?
- Which institution is responsible for the underlying evidence?
Search terms from this dossier
This entry incorporates text from “Ice hockey at the 1920 Summer Olympics – Rosters” 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.