W. R. Granger

William Rowen Granger (1873 to 1925) was an American-born Canadian sports administrator and businessman who spent his career in Montreal. As a young man he took part in tennis and bicycling at the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association, was skip of his own rink in lawn bowling for decades, and helped run cycling road races. He later became a leading amateur-sport official: president of the Montreal AAA from 1918 to 1920, founder and second president of the Quebec Amateur Hockey Association, and president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association for the 1921-22 season, when he introduced a national player registry and a residency rule. Outside sport he worked in importing and manufacturing, in the family lighting business and then as president of Glassford Brothers Limited.