The Senator Joseph A. Sullivan Trophy, named in honour of
Joseph Albert Sullivan
Joseph Albert Taylor Sullivan (January 8, 1901 – September 30, 1988) was a Canadian Olympic ice hockey player, physician, surgeon, and Canadian senator.
Born in Toronto, Ontario, he graduated from the University of Toronto Schools.Zen ...
, is presented annually to the outstanding
ice hockey player (Player of the Year) in
U Sports, the governing body for Canadian university athletics.
While studying to be a doctor at the
University of Toronto in the 1920s, Sullivan was the
goaltender for the
Toronto Varsity Blues. He played with a team of graduates from the Blues
representing Canada at the
1928 Winter Olympics
The 1928 Winter Olympics, officially known as the II Olympic Winter Games (french: IIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver; german: II. Olympische Winterspiele; it, II Giochi olimpici invernali; rm, II Gieus olimpics d'enviern) and commonly known as St. M ...
in
St. Moritz
St. Moritz (also german: Sankt Moritz, rm, , it, San Maurizio, french: Saint-Moritz) is a high Alpine resort town in the Engadine in Switzerland, at an elevation of about above sea level. It is Upper Engadine's major town and a municipality in ...
, where the team
won the Gold Medal.
Like Sullivan, the fourth recipient of the Trophy,
Randy Gregg of the
Alberta Golden Bears, was also earning a medical degree while he played university hockey. In 1990, the
Dr. Randy Gregg Award was created, honoring the U Sports ice hockey player who has exhibited outstanding achievement in ice hockey, academics, and community involvement.
List of winners
A table of the winners of the annual Senator Joseph A. Sullivan Trophy.
References
{{CIS men's ice hockey
U Sports ice hockey trophies and awards