Jack Broderick

John Charles Broderick, known as Jack Broderick, was a Canadian lacrosse player who won an Olympic gold medal with Canada at the 1908 Summer Olympics. Born on 5 June 1875 in Cornwall, Ontario, he was a staple of the Cornwall Lacrosse Club at the turn of the twentieth century. Canada beat Great Britain 14 to 10 in its only match in London. By career he was a hotelier, running his family's Broderick Hotel in Cornwall, and in 1916 he gave a false age so that he could serve in the Canadian army in the First World War, which is why his birth year is often seen as 1877. He was discharged as a sergeant and worked at the hotel for the rest of his life. He was inducted into the Cornwall Sports Hall of Fame in 1968 and died on 12 July 1957.