Sam Jacks

rdf:langString Sam Jacks

rdf:langString Samuel Perry Jacks

rdf:langString Samuel Perry Jacks

rdf:langString Samuel Perry Jacks

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rdf:langString Canadian soldier in WWII

rdf:langString inventing floor hockey

rdf:langString inventing ringette

rdf:langString Canadian

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rdf:langString North Bay Director of Parks and Recreation

rdf:langString Soldier with the Canadian Armed Forces

rdf:langString YMCA director

rdf:langString President of the Society of Directors of Municipal Recreation of Ontario

rdf:langString "Sam Jacks"

rdf:langString Sudbury Star, 1989

rdf:langString "Our sons were tremendous hockey players, but Sam could see a drastic need for a game for girls on ice on skates; a team sport. That was the basis for his whole vision. He visualized the whole thing for ringette right up to part of the Olympics some day."

rdf:langString Jacks had a drawing with diagonal lines on an ice surface and said the game should be feminine and not rough. He even suggested a three-foot line around the boards which could be a buffer zone, where no body contact would take place. "I then volunteered to go back to Espanola and experiment with the idea," says McCarthy. "I was also the arena manager back then and had acess to ice time...

rdf:langString "Ringette marks fruition of a dream"

rdf:langString "The origins of ringette: Espanola's McCarthy developed the game"

rdf:langString Samuel Perry Jacks (April 23, 1915 – May 14, 1975) more commonly known as, "Sam Jacks", was a Canadian soldier in World War II, Canadian inventor, military and civic recreation director, sports coach, creator of the Canadian sport of ringette for girls and the Canadian who created and codified the first set of rules for floor hockey in 1936. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1915 and became a Canadian citizen after his parents immigrated to Canada in 1920. Jacks died from cancer on May 14, 1975, at the age of 60. Among his many achievements and honours was his posthumous induction into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame in 2007. He was also posthumously inducted into the North Bay Sports Hall of Fame on February 27, 1982. In ringette, the sport's highest international trophy for the World Ringette Championships is named in his honour, the Sam Jacks Trophy, which is awarded to the winning team in the senior division of what is traditionally a three-game series between Team Canada and Team Finland called the "Sam Jacks Series". In a similar fashion, Ringette Canada honoured Jacks by naming their "Belle" division championship trophy for the Canadian Ringette Championships in his honour, the "Sam Jacks Memorial Trophy". Today the "Belle" division is known as the Under-19 (U19) division. The Sam Jacks Trophy for the Under-14 AA (U14AA) winners of the Eastern Canadian Ringette Championships is named after him as well, a trophy which was donated by his wife, Agnes Jacks CM. At the time of his death in 1975, Jacks had reportedly been working on another game for girls during his spare time, which he called "Net Ball". It is possible the game was related to or in actual fact the organized sport of netball which had been introduced to Canada in the early 1960s.

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rdf:langString Samuel Perry Jacks