George Bretz

George Henry Bretz, also written Brett, was a Canadian lacrosse player who won an Olympic gold medal with the Winnipeg Shamrocks at the 1904 Summer Olympics. Born in Blenheim, Ontario, on 3 September 1880, he played for a local team in London before moving to Manitoba in 1902 to join the Shamrock Lacrosse Club. He played for the side that won the 1903 Manitoba Provincial Championship and went with it to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, where it beat the St. Louis Amateur Athletic Association 8 to 2 for the gold. A Winnipeg Free Press obituary wrongly said he was killed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake; Olympedia shows that he was still alive in 1911. He worked as a tailor, died in Toronto on 7 May 1956 and entered the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame with his teammates in 2004.