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Al Ritchie, better known as "The Silver Fox", was a booster of amateur sports in the city of Regina for many years. He was the only coach ever to have won National Championships in both junior hockey and junior football, and was the Western Canada scout for the New York Rangers. He was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame, the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame, the CFL Hall of Fame, and the Saskatchewan Roughrider Plaza of Honour. His name lives on as the name for a Regina street as well as for a Regina subdivision and a number of the facilities within that subdivision.

Al Ritchie was originally from Ontario. He came to Regina as a young man in 1911 and as a youth, was very active in playing baseball and lacrosse. Ironically, although he coached amateur hockey for years, he never strapped on skates! Ritchie joined the war effort during World War I. He was an artilleryman who was a prisoner of war for one year. After the war, Ritchie returned to Regina and became an employee for the Federal Department of Customs and Excise
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But while Customs and Excise provided Al Ritchie with a job, his true vocation and passion was as an amateur sports booster. The fist sport that he turned his eye to was football. Ritchie's name became synonymous with the Regina Roughriders, the senior football team that dominated the western championship every year. Under his guidance, the Regina Roughriders won 56 consecutive games and nine western championships; it was also Ritchie who began to call the Regina Football Club the "Saskatchewan Roughriders." Despite all this success, Ritchie never did coach a Grey Cup champion. He coached 4 consecutive Grey Cup losing teams, from 1929 to 1932. Ritchie was inducted into the CFL Hall of Fame as a Builder in 1963. He was also inducted, posthumously, into the Saskatchewan Roughrider Plaza of Honour in 1987.

Many sports figures focus exclusively on one sport, but not Al Ritchie. He set out to do for hockey what he had done for football: make the local team a force to be reckoned with. That team was the Regina Patricias, founded in 1917. The Regina Patricias were named in honour of Princess Patricia, the granddaughter of Queen Victoria and a popular Royal Family member who had attended the opening of the Legislative Buildings in Regina in 1912. The name also honoured the Princess Patricia Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI) regiment, founded at the start of World War I and the first Canadian regiment to see service during the war. The PPLCI boasted many members from the Regina area, and Princess Patricia was the regiment's honorary colonel. (The name was shortened to the more familiar Regina Pats in 1923.) Ritchie coached the team to victory in the Memorial Cup in 1925, again in 1930. The team went dormant during World War II, and Ritchie was part of the organizing committee that brought the team back to life in 1946.

In later years, Ritchie became the Western Canada scout for the New York Rangers. Dressed in his trademark coonskin coat, with his ever-present cigar, Ritchie gave many young prospects a shot at the major leagues. Dick Irvin, Johnny Gottselig, Gordon Pettinger, Freddie Metcalfe, Murray Armstrong, the Warwick Brothers, Scotty Cameron, Huddy Bell, Jim Henry, Bill Giokas, Dunc Fisher and Gus Kyle owed their professional hockey careers to Al Ritchie's scouting abilities.

Ritchie was honoured with induction to Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1965. In 1966 he was inducted into the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame. Sadly, Ritchie did not live long enough to see his beloved Saskatchewan Roughriders celebrate their first Grey Cup victory; he passed away a mere 9 months before the `Riders' first Grey Cup victory in 1966.

Ritchie's memory lives on in the City of Regina in many diverse ways His name has been given to Ritchie Crescent in Regina, one of Regina's subdivisions is also now known as Core/Al Ritchie, and many facilities within the city honour Ritchie's memory, including the Al Ritchie Memorial Centre.

David William Bauer, OC, CSB (November 2, 1924 – November 9, 1988), frequently referred to as Father David Bauer, was an ice hockey player, builder, and hockey pioneer who was ordained as a Catholic priest in the Congregation of St. Basil at the age of 29. He was a native of the Kitchener-Waterloo area of Ontario.

Bauer was the younger brother of hockey player Bobby Bauer. A noted sportsman in his own right, Bauer turned down an offer to play for the Boston Bruins Olympic farm team at the age of 16, so that he could attend St. Michael's College School in Toronto, where he played for various school teams from 1941 to 1945, and later the University of Toronto. In 1944, after St. Michael's was eliminated by the Oshawa Generals in the playoffs, Oshawa was able to add three players to their roster for the 1944 Memorial Cup championship series, and chose Bauer, as well as Ted Lindsay and Gus Mortson. He returned to the St. Michael's Majors for a single game in the 1944–45 campaign, choosing to enlist in the military instead as St. Michael's won the 1945 Memorial Cup championship that spring. Following the end of the war, he decided against playing professional hockey, instead, choosing to enter the priesthood.

In 1953 after his ordination as a priest, Bauer returned to St. Michael's College as a teacher and became coach of the school's junior team. During the 1960s he helped lead the team to a Memorial Cup, and helped introduce such future hockey stars as Dave Keon of the Toronto Maple Leafs and Gerry Cheevers of the Boston Bruins.

In 1962, Bauer took a position at the St. Mark's College and the University of British Columbia, where he came up with the idea to establish a national team of top amateurs from across Canada. The idea was presented to the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA) and by the end of 1962, Bauer's idea was accepted. Bauer made up his team of several top amateur players who became UBC students including Brian Conacher, Roger Bourbonnais and Marshall Johnston, and in 1964 they participated in the Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria. The team put up a good fight, losing 3–2 in a gold medal game opportunity with the Soviet Union, but only came out in fourth place on goal difference. However, because of different rules for eliminating ties for Olympics and World Championships, the Canadian team was awarded a "world championship" bronze medal.

Bauer was later coach and general manager for Canada in the 1968 Olympics, general manager in the 1965, 1966, 1967 and 1969 world championships. He managed the 1980 Canadian Olympic team as well.

Among Bauer's many awards and honours are, winning the Olympic bronze in 1968 as General Manager, World Championship bronze in 1964,1966 and 1967 as general manager, the Memorial Cup in 1944 as a player and in 1961 as a trainer (coach), being elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame as a Builder in 1989, and the IIHF Hall of Fame in 1997, both posthumously. Bauer was also named Vice-President of Hockey Canada in 1981, Chairman of Canada's Olympic hockey program also in 1981, named to the Order of Canada in 1967.

Father David Bauer Olympic Arena in Calgary, Alberta, is named for him, as is the roadway Father David Bauer Drive in Waterloo, Ontario. A bursary from St. Mark's College (affiliated with the University of British Columbia) was also named for him in 1987. An arena at The University of British Columbia is named after him and the UBC hockey alumni group has hockey bursaries in Father David Bauer's name for student athletes who make the varsity hockey team.

Bauer died in November 1988, at the age of 64 in Goderich, Ontario. He was buried in his family plot in Mount Hope Cemetery in Kitchener, Ontario.

Robert John "Jackie" McLeod (born April 30, 1930) was a Canadian professional hockey player, senior amateur player, Canadian National Team coach, and junior hockey coach. He played for the New York Rangers and won the World Championship in 1961.

McLeod played junior hockey for the Moose Jaw Canucks from 1947-49 then joined the New York Rangers in 1949. Over the next five seasons he played in 106 games, scoring 14 goals and 23 assists. A lot of his time was spent in the minors with the Saskatoon Quakers. His experience with the Rangers ended in 1955 and he spent another five years in the Western Hockey League with the Quakers, Calgary Stampeders, and Vancouver Canucks.

In 1960 he left pro hockey and started what was, in effect, a second career. He played senior amateur hockey and joined the Trail Smoke Eaters as they won the World Championship in 1961. McLeod was picked up again by the Galt Terriers for the World Championship in 1962 (where they won the silver medal) and again by the Trail Smoke Eaters in the World Championship in 1963. He was also playing for the Moose Jaw Pla-Mors and the Saskatoon Quakers. He was the player-coach of the Moose Jaw Pla-Mors in 1964-65.

In 1965 he was named the coach of the Canadian National Team. He played in a few games in 1965-66 before retiring as a player. He continued as a coach until the team disbanded in 1970. The team won a bronze medal in the 1968 Olympics.
In 1972 he became coach and General manager of the junior Saskatoon Blades of the Western Hockey League. While there he was coach of Canada's team in the 1975 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships. He retired in 1980.

In 1984 he was inducted into the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame. In 1999 he was inducted into the International Hockey Hall of Fame.