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| Goaltending legend Ralph Speck passed away in
March at the age of 77 as he was returning home from Florida. After
anchoring the provincial bantam champions from St. Catharines in
1946, Ralph would make the colossal jump to Junior "A" the
following year, and as a fresh faced 15-year-old, he became one
of the real heroes of the extraordinary St. Catharines Athletics
Minto Cup championship team of 1947. Speck was nothing short of
incredible. Ralph would play again for the A's in '48 (the provincial
champs) but then when Peterborough began a Senior "A"
program in 1949, Ralph along with St. Kitts Jrs. Leo Teatro and
fire-baller Jim McNulty were enticed to make the move up. As a 17
& 18 year-old, Ralph was the starting goalie for the
Peterborough Srs. and was only displaced when the Petes brought in from
Owen Sound
the experienced and renowned "Moon" Wootten in 1951. Ralph played 2 or 3 more years of Senior "A"
with the Fergus Thistles, and all told, played about 4 years of
senior while he was still of junior age. He made a big impact at
such an early age and then left the game when he still had some of
his best lacrosse left. Ralph settled in Brantford, became
successful as a salesman and a husband and father. |
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