Bill Chadwick
Hockey
Born in Manhattan, New York City, he attended Jamaica High School. While playing as a center for a Metropolitan Amateur Hockey League All-Star team at Madison Square Garden in 1935, he was struck in the right eye by an errant puck during a line change against a team from Boston. Even though the doctors at Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital weren\'t able to restore vision to his right eye, he continued to play the sport with the New York Rovers of the Eastern Amateur Hockey League.\n', '
Chadwick was encouraged to become a referee by his former Rovers\' coach, Tommy Lockhart. His first experience as an on-ice official was in a Rovers game in March 1937, when he substituted for the scheduled referee who was stuck in a snowstorm. His work in the amateur circuit caught the attention of then-NHL president Frank Calder, who hired him as the league\'s first American-born linesman in 1939.…
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