1932 Winter Olympics

At the 1932 Winter Olympics, the ice hockey tournament was contested by only four teams. The competition was held from Thursday, February 4, 1932 to Saturday, February 13, 1932. Canada won the gold medal, the United States took the silver medal and Germany claimed one of its two all-time hockey medals by taking the bronze (West Germany also won the bronze medal in 1976).

Medallists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Canada William Cockburn Clifford Crowley Albert Duncanson George Garbutt Roy Henkel Vic Lindquist Norman Malloy Walter Monson Kenneth Moore Romeo Rivers Hack Simpson Hugh Sutherland Stanley Wagner Alston Wise	United States Osborne Anderson Johnny Bent John Chase John Cookman Douglas Everett Franklin Farrel Joseph Fitzgerald Edwin Frazier John Garrison Gerard Hallock Robert Livingston Francis Nelson Winthrop Palmer Gordon Smith	Germany Rudi Ball Alfred Heinrich Erich Herker Gustav Jaenecke Werner Korff Walter Leinweber Erich Romer Martin Schröttle Marquard Slevogt Georg Strobl

Participating teams

The Great Depression had taken its toll on the world economy. Most of the European nations could not afford to send a hockey team to the United States only to be humiliated by the Canadian and American teams.

After a lot of lobbying by the Americans and promises of financial assistance, Germany and Poland agreed to send teams.

This was the first time that European hockey teams would visit North America.

Both Germany and Poland went on tours of the United States (see 1931-32 International Club Matches).

Canada was represented by the Winnipeg Winnipegs, who had won the Allan Cup the previous season. They took a break from their current season to play in the tournament.

Tournament

Team	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA
Canada	6	5	1	0	32	4
United States	6	4	1	1	27	5
Germany	6	2	0	4	7	26
Poland	6	0	0	6	3	34

4 Feb	United States	1:2 OT (0:0,0:1,1:0,0:0,0:1)	Canada
4 Feb	Germany	2:1 (0:0,1:1,1:0)	Poland
5 Feb	United States	4:1 (1:0,2:0,1:1)	Poland
6 Feb	Canada	4:1 (2:0,2:0,0:1)	Germany
7 Feb	Canada	9:0 (2:0,5:0,2:0)	Poland
7 Feb	United States	7:0 (3:0,2:0,2:0)	Germany
8 Feb	United States	5:0 (1:0,1:0,3:0)	Poland
8 Feb	Canada	5:0 (2:0,1:0,2:0)	Germany
9 Feb	Canada	10:0 (5:0,1:0,4:0)	Poland
10 Feb	United States	8:0 (2:0,2:0,4:0)	Germany
13 Feb	Germany	4:1 (0:0,2:1,2:0)	Poland
13 Feb	United States	2:2 OT (1:1,1:0,0:1,0:0,0:0,0:0)	Canada

Top scorer

Team	GP	G	A	Pts
Walter Monson	6	7	4	11

Final ranking

1	Canada
	represented by: Winnipeg Hockey Club
2	United States
3	Germany
	Rudi Ball (Berliner SC) Alfred Heinrich (SC Brandenburg Berlin) Erich Herker (Berliner SC) Gustav Jaenecke (Berliner SC) Werner Korff (Berliner SC) Walter Leinweber (EV Füssen) Erich Romer (Berliner SC) Martin Schröttle (SC Riessersee) Marquard Slevogt(SC Riessersee) Georg Strobl (SC Riessersee)
4	Poland
	Adam Kowalski Aleksander Kowalski Wlodzimierz Krygier Witalis Ludwiczak Czesaw Marchewczyk Kazimierz Materski Albert Mauer Roman Sabinski Tadeusz Sachs Kazimierz Sokolowski Jozef Stogowski

Team Photos

Canada

Germany

Poland

United States

References

• 1932 Olympic Games report (digitized copy online)
• International Olympic Committee results database