Bill Long (ice hockey)

Bill Long was a Canadian ice hockey player and coach, born on 2 January 1917 in Barrie, Ontario, who died on 24 July 2006 in London, Ontario, after suffering from Alzheimer's disease in his later years. As a player he appeared with the Pittsburgh Hornets of the American Hockey League in the 1939-40 season. He is better known for three decades of coaching in the Ontario Hockey League with the Niagara Falls Flyers, the London Knights and the Ottawa 67's, winning the Memorial Cup with the Flyers in 1965 and the Matt Leyden Trophy as coach of the year in 1976 and 1977. The league named the Bill Long Award in his honour, given for distinguished lifetime service to the league.