Michael Ross "Roscoe" Rutledge (July 7, 1962 in

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– April 23, 2004 in

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) was a Canadian

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player. Rutledge participated in two consecutive

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for Canada, starting in

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. After having finished in tenth position in

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, the longtime resident of

ended up in eleventh place with the Men's National Team in the Seoul Games. He died from

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. In Ambleside, West Vancouver, there is a field hockey turf called Rutledge Field, the home ground of the West Vancouver Field Hockey Club. The field was dedicated in memorial of Ross Rutledge in 2011 who was a local advocate for field hockey, having started the West Vancouver Field Hockey Club Adanacs player development program.

International senior competitions

* 1984 –

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, Los Angeles (10th) * 1988 –

, Seoul (11th) * 1990 –

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, Lahore (11th)

References

Canadian Olympic Committee
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Ambleside “A” Artificial Turf Sport Field Officially Named “Rutledge Field”

"Hockey's home at last", North Shore News, 4 Sept 2011

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