1928 Winter Olympics

At the 1928 Winter Olympics, the ice hockey event was contested by 11 teams. The competition was held from Saturday, February 11, 1928, to Sunday, February 19, 1928.

The gold medal was won by Canada whose player roster was made up of the Toronto Varsity Grads coached by Conn Smythe.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Canada Charles Delahay Frank Fisher Louis Hudson Norbert Mueller Herbert Plaxton Hugh Plaxton Roger Plaxton John Porter Frank Sullivan Joseph Sullivan Ross Taylor David Trottier	Sweden Carl Abrahamsson Emil Bergman Birger Holmquist Gustaf Johansson Henry Johansson Nils Johansson-Ingwe Ernst Karlberg Erik Larsson Bertil Linde Sigfrid Öberg Wilhelm Petersén Curt Sucksdorff	Switzerland Gianni Andreossi Mezzi Andreossi Robert Breiter Louis Dufour, Jr. Charles Fasel Albert Geromini Fritz Kraatz Arnold Martignoni Heini Meng Anton Morosani Luzius Rüedi Richard Torriani

Final tournament

Group A

The top team (highlighted) advanced to the medal round.

Team	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA
Great Britain	3	2	0	1	10	6
France	3	2	0	1	6	5
Belgium	3	2	0	1	9	10
Hungary	3	0	0	3	2	6

February 11	Great Britain	7:3 (3:1,2:0,2:2)	Belgium
February 11	France	2:0 (0:0,2:0,0:0)	Hungary
February 12	France	3:2 (0:1,3:1,0:0)	Great Britain
February 12	Belgium	3:2 (0:1,3:1,0:0)	Hungary
February 13	Belgium	3:1 (2:0,0:0,1:1)	France
February 15	Great Britain	1:0 (1:0,0:0,0:0)	Hungary

Group B

The top team (highlighted) advanced to the medal round.

Team	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA
Sweden	2	1	1	0	5	2
Czechoslovakia	2	1	0	1	3	5
Poland	2	0	1	1	4	5

February 11	Sweden	3:0 (1:0,1:0,1:0)	Czechoslovakia
February 12	Sweden	2:2 (1:0,1:2,0:0)	Poland
February 13	Czechoslovakia	3:2 (1:1,1:1,1:0)	Poland

Group C

The top team (highlighted) advanced to the medal round.

Team	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA
Switzerland	2	1	1	0	5	4
Austria	2	0	2	0	4	4
Germany	2	0	1	1	0	1

February 11	Switzerland	4:4 (2:4,1:0,1:0)	Austria
February 11	Austria	0:0 -	Germany
February 16	Switzerland	1:0 (1:0,0:0,0:0)	Germany

Final round

The top teams from each of the three groups, plus Canada, which had received a bye into the medal round, played a 3 game round-robin to determine the medal winners.

Team	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA
Canada	3	3	0	0	38	0
Sweden	3	2	0	1	7	12
Switzerland	3	1	0	2	4	17
Great Britain	3	0	0	3	1	21

February 17	Canada	11:0 (4:0,4:0,3:0)	Sweden
February 17	Switzerland	4:0 (0:0,2:0,2:0)	Great Britain
February 18	Canada	14:0 (6:0,4:0,4:0)	Great Britain
February 18	Switzerland	0:4 (0:1,0:0,0:3)	Sweden
February 19	Sweden	3:1 (2:1,0:0,1:0)	Great Britain
February 19	Switzerland	0:13 (0:2,0:6,0:5)	Canada

Top scorer

Team	GP	G	A	Pts
David Trottier	3	12	3	15

Participating nations

A total of 128(*) ice hockey players from eleven nations competed at the St. Moritz Games:

• Austria
• Belgium
• Canada
• Czechoslovakia
• France
• Germany
• Great Britain
• Hungary
• Poland
• Sweden
• Switzerland

(*) NOTE: There are only players counted, which participated in one game at least.

Not all reserve players are known.

Final rankings

1	Canada
	represented by: Toronto Varsity Grads Coach: Conn Smythe
2	Sweden
3	Switzerland
4	Great Britain
	Wilbert Brown Colin Carruthers Eric Carruthers Ross Cuthbert Bernard Fawcett Harold Greenwood Nevill Melland John Rogers Blaine Sexton William Speechly Victor Tait Cecil Wylde
—	Austria
	Herbert Bruck Walter Bruck Jacques Dietrichstein Hans Ertl Sepp Göbl Hans Kail Herbert Klang Ulli Lederer Walter Sell Regi Spevak Hans Tatzer Hermann Weiss
—	Czechoslovakia
	Wolfgang Dorasil Karel Hromadka Jan Krasl Johann Lichnovsky Josef Malecek Jan Peka Jaroslav Pusbauer Jaroslav Rezac Josef Sroubek Bohumil Steigenhofer Jiri Tozicka
—	France
	André Charlet Raoul Couvert Alfréd de Rauch Albert Hassler Jacques Lacarriere Philippe Lefebure Francois Mautin Calixte Payot Philippe Payot Léonhard Quaglia Robert George Gerard Simond
—	Belgium
	Andre Bautier Roger Bureau Hector Chotteau Albert Collon Francois Franck William Hoorickx Jean Meeus David Meyer Marco Peltzer Jean van de Wouwer Jacques Van Reysschoot Pierre Van Reysschoot
—	Germany
	Pedro Bayne Alex Gruber Gustav Jaenecke (Berliner SC) Wolfgang Kittel (Berliner SC) Franz Kreisel (SC Riessersee) Matthias Leis (SC Riessersee) Fritz Rammelmayr (SC Riessersee) Erich Romer (Berliner SC) Walter Sachs (Berliner SC) Hans Schmid (SC Riessersee) Martin Schröttle (SC Riessersee) Marquard Slevogt(SC Riessersee) Alfred Steinke (Berliner SC)
—	Poland
	Tadeusz Adamowski Edmund Czaplicki Aleksander Kowalski Wlodzimierz Krygier Lucjan Kulej Bronislaw Makowski Stanislaw Pastecki Aleksander Sluczanowski Jozef Stogowski Karol Szenajch Aleksander Tupalski Kazimierz Zebrowski
—	Hungary
	Miklos Barcza (BBTE) Frigyes Barna (BKE) Matyas Farkas (BKE) Tibor Heinrich (BKE) Peter Krempels (BKE) Istvan Krepuska (BKE) Geza Lator (BKE) Sandor Minder (BKE) Bela Ordody (BKE) Jozsef Revay (BKE) Bela Weiner (BKE)

Team Photos

Canada

Sweden

European Championship medal table

	Sweden
	Switzerland
	Great Britain
4	Austria
4	France
4	Czechoslovakia
7	Belgium
7	Germany
7	Poland
10	Hungary

References

• 1928 Olympic Games report (digitized copy online)
• International Olympic Committee results database