Billy Christmas

Billy Christmas was an amateur multi-sport athlete from Montreal who played ice hockey, lacrosse and football around the turn of the twentieth century. He came up through the Westmount Lacrosse Club and then the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association, the Winged Wheelers, for whom he played with the Montreal Hockey Club and the Montreal Lacrosse Club, and he also played halfback for the Britannia Football Club. In 1899 he entered the Amateur Boxing Championships of Canada as a lightweight and won the title. In the 1899-1900 Canadian Amateur Hockey League season he was the top scorer for the Winged Wheelers with 12 goals in 8 games. After he married in 1905 he retired from contact sports, and a teammate later called him the greatest exponent of Canadian sport of his time. He was awarded the Order of Sport in 2015.