Oren Claude Frood (February 10, 1889 – January 14, 1943) was a

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er. Frood played as a professional for the

Haileybury Hockey Club The Haileybury Hockey Club (also known as the ''Haileybury Comets'' or ''Haileybury Miners'') of Haileybury, Ontario, was a professional ice hockey club established in 1906. The team is notable for being a founding member of the National Hockey Ass ...

in the TPHL and the

Berlin Dutchmen The Berlin Dutchmen were an early professional ice hockey team operating out of Berlin, Ontario, (renamed Kitchener in 1916) from 1907 in the Ontario Professional Hockey League (OPHL). The Berlin team is notable for challenging for the Stanley ...

in the OPHL.

Playing career

Oren Frood began his hockey career with the Pembroke Hockey Club of the Upper Ottawa Valley Hockey League where he played from 1906 to 1908. In 1909 he played with the Haileybury Hockey Club in the Timiskaming Professional Hockey League. For the 1910 season Frood joined the Berlin Dutchmen of the Ontario Professional Hockey League. Berlin Dutchmen won the league championship in 1910 and in March 1910 the club challenged the

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, champions of the NHA, for the

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. Frood scored a goal in the game but the Montreal club won 7 to 3. From 1913 to 1916 Frood played with the Medicine Hat Scoundrels of the SAHA. In 1916 he enlisted with the Canadian Army and served in the

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