Joseph McCormick (ice hockey)

Joseph Wallace McCormick (August 12, 1894 – June 14, 1958)[1] was a Canadian-born ice hockey player, from Buckingham, Quebec.

Because the brothers held an honorable discharge from the Army, they were entitled to automatic US citizenship and on March 17, 1920, just five weeks before playing in the 1920 Summer Olympics,[3] they both became naturalized Americans.

[4] He was the captain[5] and a forward on the 1920 American ice hockey team, which eventually won the silver medal.

The January 23, 1922 issue of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette described McCormick as "one of the cleanest and fairest players to ever don a uniform".

[6] On October 7, 1925, McCormick was traded to Portland along with Bobby Trapp in exchange for Eddie Shore and Art Gagne.