John Chester "Red" Porter (January 21, 1904 – August 6, 1997) was a Canadian

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. Tw ...

player who competed in the

1928 Winter Olympics The 1928 Winter Olympics, officially known as the II Olympic Winter Games (; ; ; ) and commonly known as St. Moritz 1928 (; ), were an international winter multi-sport event that was celebrated from 11 to 19 February 1928 in St. Moritz, Swit ...

. He captained the University of Toronto Grads, the Canadian 1927

Allan Cup The Allan Cup is the trophy awarded annually to the senior ice hockey champions of Canada. It was donated by Sir Montagu Allan of Ravenscrag, Montreal, and has been competed for since 1909. It was most recently won by the Wentworth Gryphins ...

champions that won the gold medal in 1928, where Porter was Canada's opening-ceremonies flagbearer. Porter would go on to coach the University of Toronto hockey team from 1928 to 1931. He was inducted into the

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public university, public research university whose main campus is located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park (Toronto), Queen's Park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded by ...

Hall of Fame in 2004 and the

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Hall of Fame in 2021.

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* * * * * 1904 births 1997 deaths Canadian ice hockey players Ice hockey people from Toronto Ice hockey players at the 1928 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 1928 Winter Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Canada Olympic ice hockey players for Canada Olympic medalists in ice hockey Toronto Varsity Blues ice hockey players {{Canada-Winter-Olympic-medalist-stub