Bill Isaacs

Bill Isaacs was a Mohawk Canadian lacrosse player, born on 18 March 1914 near Brantford, Ontario, on the Six Nations of the Grand River reserve, and he died on 27 December 1985. He learned the game on the reserve and became perhaps the first superstar of box lacrosse, the indoor version of the sport that drew heavily on ice hockey and dominated Canadian summers in the 1930s and 1940s. He won the Ontario Amateur Lacrosse Association Senior A scoring title seven times in eight years between 1935 and 1942 and took the Jim Murphy Trophy as the league's most valuable player in 1938. He was a member of two Mann Cup winning teams, the Mimico-Brampton Combines in 1942 and the Hamilton Tigers in 1948, and he finished with 777 goals and 467 assists over 346 games. He was inducted into the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame as a charter member in 1965 and into several other Canadian halls of fame. His father, Freeman Joseph Isaacs, was a 1904 Olympic bronze medalist in lacrosse.