Francis Xavier "Moose" Goheen (February 8, 1894 – November 13, 1979) was an American
amateur
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ice hockey
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forward
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. While enrolled at the
Valparaiso University
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,
Goheen was a skilled, three-sport athlete competing in
football
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and
baseball
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, in addition to hockey.
Goheen was a member of the
St. Paul Athletic Club team that won United States Amateur Hockey championship and received the
MacNaughton Cup
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in the 1915–16 season.
After that season, Goheen enlisted in the
United States Army
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and served in the European theatre during
World War I
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in the Army's signal corps. After his service in the Army, Goheen returned to the St. Paul Athletic Club
and won a second league championship and MacNaughton Cup in 1920.
Goheen also competed in the
1920 Summer Olympics
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as the
captain
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and
rover
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* Constance Rover (1910–2005), English historian
* Jolanda de Rover (born 1963), Dutch swimmer
* Rover Thomas (c. 1920–1998), Indigenous Australian artist
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* Rover, Missouri, US
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for the
American ice hockey team, which won the silver medal.
Outside of hockey, Goheen was dedicated to his career with the
Northern States Power Company
Northern States Power Company () was a publicly traded S&P 500 electric and natural gas utility holding company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that is now a subsidiary of Xcel Energy ().
History
The company's founder, Henry Marison Byllesby, ha ...
in St. Paul, so much so that he declined to play with United States Olympic hockey team in the
1924 Winter Olympics
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and spurned multiple contract offers to play in the
National Hockey League
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with the
Boston Bruins
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(in 1926) and
Toronto Maple Leafs
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.
In 1952, Moose Goheen was inducted to the
Hockey Hall of Fame
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; at the time, he was only the second American to have been inducted (after
Hobey Baker
Hobart Amory Hare "Hobey" Baker (January 15, 1892 – December 21, 1918) was an American amateur athlete of the early twentieth century. Considered the first American star in ice hockey by the Hockey Hall of Fame, he was also an accomplished Ame ...
) and the first Minnesotan. He was also elected to the Minnesota Sports Hall of Fame in 1958 and to the
United States Hockey Hall of Fame
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in 1973.
In 1924, in a 1–0 victory over Boston for the
St. Paul Saints
The St. Paul Saints are a Minor League Baseball team of the International League and the Triple-A affiliate of the Minnesota Twins. They are located in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and have played their home games at CHS Field since 2015. They prev ...
, Goheen scored a goal using a
slap shot
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—the earliest record of the feat.
Th
White Bear Lake Area Hockey Associationholds yearly tournaments in Goheen's name.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
International
References
External links
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1894 births
1979 deaths
American men's ice hockey forwards
Buffalo Majors players
Central Hockey League (1925–1926) players
Hockey Hall of Fame inductees
Ice hockey players from Minnesota
Ice hockey players at the 1920 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for the United States in ice hockey
People from White Bear Lake, Minnesota
St. Paul Athletic Club ice hockey players
St. Paul Saints (AHA) players
United States Hockey Hall of Fame inductees