Flat Iron (lacrosse)

Flat Iron was a First Nations lacrosse player who represented Canada at the 1904 Summer Olympics, the Games held in St. Louis, Missouri. He was a member of the Mohawk Indians Lacrosse Team, which won the bronze medal in the lacrosse tournament at those Games, and that single Olympic appearance is the basis of his place in the record of the sport. Lacrosse, a game with Indigenous North American roots, was contested as a medal event in 1904, and the Mohawk side was one of the teams entered. Biographical detail about Flat Iron is scant: the encyclopedia article gives no birth or death dates, and it points readers to his profile at Olympedia and at Sports Reference for the record of his Olympic participation, and to Bill Mallon's reference work on the 1904 Olympic Games, pages 165 to 167, for results and commentary.