Charles Ramsay (ice hockey)
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| Home town | Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Ice hockey | ||||||||||||||
| Position | Defenseman, Forward | ||||||||||||||
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Charles Ramsay, sometimes spelled Charles Ramsey, was an American amateur and professional ice hockey player and coach.
Ramsay was a star in Europe, particularly France, in the 1930s when a new arena-based ice rink, coupled with aggressive marketing by future Boxing Hall of Fame promoter Jeff Dickson, made the sport a popular novelty in Paris.
Ramsay was also a teacher of the game and, in addition to coaching many Parisian youth players of the era, authored a 1933 instructional book simply called Le hockey sur glace (Ice Hockey). It has been credited as the first book devoted entirely to the sport to be published in France.