John Calder Marshall (March 14, 1877 – August 7, 1965) was a Canadian ice hockey player. Marshall played for the Winnipeg Victorias, Montreal HC, Montreal Shamrocks, Montreal Wanderers, Toronto Pros and Toronto Blueshirts. Marshall was a member of six Stanley Cup championship teams for four clubs. He won his first Stanley Cup in 1901 with Winnipeg Victorias. He then joined the Montreal HC and won two more Cups in 1902 and 1903. He also won the Stanley Cup with Montreal Wanderers in 1907 and 1910. Marshall won his sixth and final Cup as a player-manager with the Toronto Blueshirts in 1914.
Marshall was the first player to win six Stanley Cup titles. He was also the first player to win the Stanley Cup while playing for four clubs. His teammate on the 1914 Stanley Cup winning Toronto Blueshirts, goalie Hap Holmes, tied the record in 1925 while backstopping the Victoria Cougars to a Stanley Cup victory.[3] Marshall was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1965.[1]
After the season, he moved back home and joined the Montreal Hockey Club. As one of the "Little Men of Iron", the club won the Stanley Cup in 1902 and 1903. Along with several other players of the club, he left in 1903 to form the new Montreal Wanderers. He played two seasons with the Wanderers before he moved to Toronto. In 1905–06, he played with the new Toronto Professionals in exhibition play. In 1906, he returned to Montreal, and he played for the Montreal Montagnards in 1907, joining the Wanderers after the Montagnards disbanded. The Wanderers won the ECAHA title that season and successfully defended their Stanley Cup championship of 1906 in challenges.
However, Marshall did not stay with the club beyond that season. He moved to the Montreal Shamrocks and played two seasons for the Shamrocks before returning to the Wanderers for the 1910 NHA season. He helped the Wanderers to another Stanley Cup win that season, the club's last in its history. He stayed with the organization until 1912, when he returned to Toronto to join the new Toronto Hockey Club team. After Bruce Ridpath retired as manager in 1913, Marshall took on the responsibility while continuing to play for the team. He would win another Stanley Cup with the Torontos in 1914. The following season was cut short due to appendicitis and he only played four games. In all, he played three seasons for the Torontos before he returned to the Wanderers in 1915 for two seasons, before retiring from hockey in 1917.
Marshall died in Montreal on August 7, 1965, aged 88.[5]
Playing style
Jack Marshall was a strong all-round player, and over the course of his career he tried out almost every position the seven-man game had to offer. During his junior years in Pointe-Saint-Charles in Montreal, beginning in 1894, he started out as a goaltender. Although he was a right-handed shot he would later play on the left wing with the Winnipeg Victorias in the Manitoba Hockey Association, because the team lacked adequate enough left-handed options. With the Montreal Wanderers he first played as a centre forward, and in the second half of his career as a defenceman.[6] He also played occasionally at right wing and as a rover.
In the January 21, 1901 issue of the Winnipeg Tribune Marshall was described as "not a big man physically" but "solidly built, tough and enduring." The newspaper also remarked that he played "a neat speedy and cool-headed game, very free from fouls or off-sides" and that he "is an excellent shot on goal and can supply the place of any man on the forward line who may get hurt."[4]
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