Stig Emanuel "Stickan" Andersson (16 October 1914 – 23 March 2000) was a Swedish

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and

bandy Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two teams wearing ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal. The international governing body for bandy is ...

player, known for representing

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in all three sports. He competed in the men's hockey tournaments at the

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and the

1948 Winter Olympics The 1948 Winter Olympics, officially known as the V Olympic Winter Games (german: V. Olympische Winterspiele; french: Ves Jeux olympiques d'hiver; it, V Giochi olimpici invernali; rm, V Gieus olimpics d'enviern) and commonly known as St. Moritz ...

Early life

Andersson grew up in a working-class home in a southern part of

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known as

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. His father was working as a groundskeeper at Hammarby Idrottsplats, the home of local club

which he joined as a youngster, together with the likes of Sven Bergqvist.

Athletic career

Ice hockey

In 1932, Andersson started to play hockey with

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, Sweden's top tier. He won six Swedish championships – in 1933, 1936, 1937, 1942, 1943 and 1946 – with the club. In total, In Andersson made 220 competitive appearances for Hammarby, scoring 120 goals. He was known as both a prolific goalscorer and playmaker, playing as a right winger, forming a deadly partnership with centre

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and left winger

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in the 1940s. Andersson won 38 caps for the Swedish national team, scoring a total of 19 goals. He represented his country at three major tournaments: the

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and

and the 1938 World Championships. He is a recipient of the honorary award " Big boy", which is handed out by

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. In 1946, he left Hammarby for Atlas Diesels IF in the Swedish lower divisions. Andersson played three seasons for his new club until his retirement from hockey in 1950.

Football

On 3 September 1933, at the age of 18, Andersson debuted in the senior football team of

, in a 2–3 loss against

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. Between 1933 and 1949, Andersson made 229 league appearances for the club, mostly in the Swedish second tier Division 2, scoring 91 goals. In 1939–40, Hammarby competed for one season in

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, the domestic top league, with Andersson playing in 18 of 22 fixtures, but was relegated immediately.

Bandy

Andersson was also a prominent bandy player and played 16 seasons with

between 1932 and 1947. He was also a member of the Swedish national team.

Personal life

He was the older brother of Åke "Plutten" Andersson, who also would become a celebrated sportsman. His son Börje Andersson also played hockey and made one season with Hammarby IF in 1968-69.

Legacy

When Hammarby's ice hockey team was on tour in the United Kingdom in 1946, Stig Emanuel Andersson allegedly coined the term "Bajen", a short form of a mock-English pronunciation of "Hammarby", that has been the club's most used nickname since the 1970s. Andersson's personal battle cry was "Bamsing - stångkorv!", which he used to shout at his teammates when it was time to really fight and preferably score two goals in a short time. This later led to Hammarby's hockey team being called "Bamsingarna", an other nickname that still lives on today.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Andersson, Stig Emanuel 1914 births 2000 deaths Ice hockey players at the 1936 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players at the 1948 Winter Olympics Olympic ice hockey players for Sweden Sportspeople from Stockholm Swedish bandy players Men's association football forwards Allsvenskan players Hammarby Fotboll players Hammarby Hockey (1921–2008) players Hammarby IF Bandy players Swedish men's footballers