Patrick Brennan (July 30, 1877 – May 1, 1961"Pat Brennan Old Lacrosse Great Dies"
''Montreal Gazette''. May 2, 1961 (pg. 24). Retrieved 2022-12-10.) was an Irish-born Canadian

lacrosse Lacrosse is a team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldest organized sport in North America, with its origins with the indigenous people of North America as early as the 12th century. The game was extensively ...

player who competed in the

1908 Summer Olympics The 1908 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the IV Olympiad and also known as London 1908) were an international multi-sport event held in London, England, United Kingdom, from 27 April to 31 October 1908. The 1908 Games were ori ...

. He was part of the Canadian team which won the gold medal. He was inducted into the

Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame The Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame is a Canadian lacrosse hall of fame, located in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada. The Hall was chartered in 1965 by the Canadian Lacrosse Association, and inducted its first class of hall of famers in t ...

in 1966.

Biography

Brennan was born on Ireland but came to Canada at the age of three. On club level he represented the Montreal Shamrocks. He died at Notre Dame de l'Esperance Hospital in Montreal in 1961, aged 83.

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Olympic profile
1877 births 1961 deaths Canadian lacrosse players Olympic lacrosse players of Canada Lacrosse players at the 1908 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Canada Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in lacrosse {{Canada-Olympic-medalist-stub