CAMBRIDGE SPORTS HALL OF FAME Lex Chisholm April 15, 1915 - Aug. 6, 1981
Alexander "Lex" Chisholm was one points in 28 games for the Leafs. of this city's top hockey players in the He played one more season with the first half of the 20th century. Leafs, earning $2,105, but by then, A Galt native, he was a contempo- war had intervened. rary of another Galt player, Carl Lis- Chisholm played two games with combe - the two were born a month the Pittsburgh Hornets of the AHL to apart and were in the same class at start the 1940-41 season, but he was by school. then scheduled to enter the service. And like Liscombe, Chisholm In 1941-42, the year his teammates would go on to play in the NHL. on the Leafs were winning the Stan- Chisholm first played junior hockey ley Cup, Chisholm was stationed in for the Galt Terrier Pups from 1932 to Halifax, and the following year was in 1934, where he scored 25 goals in 30 Toronto with the OHL Senior entrant games, and also collected 15 assists. that year, the Toronto Army Daggers. In the 1934-35 season he moved Like many other players, when the to the Oshawa Generals Junior team war ended, Chisholm's best hockey where he had 19 points, including 14 years were behind him and he never goals, in 12 games. played another game in the NHL. He then spent the next four seasons Chisholm died on August 6, 1981. playing with the Oshawa Generals Se- He was only 66. nior team. In his last season there Chisholm not only led the Ontario Hockey Association's Sr. division in assists At 5'11" and 175 lbs., Galt's Lex Chisholm, a proven and points, but the center/right scorer, had all the earmarks of a star when he winger also spent three games with cracked the NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs' lineup in the Syracuse Stars of the American the late 1930s before war intervened and cut his Hockey League. career short. In the photo at right, Chisholm on the In 1939-40 he turned pro with 39-40 Leafs. Chisholm is pictured on the far right the NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs, with Bob Goldham, far left, Johnny McCreedy, and Frank Eddolls in their military service uniforms. earning $2,026. That first season he played with Syl Apps, Billy Taylor and Turk Broda, and had 14 Inducted 2012