Charlie Liffiton

Charlie Liffiton
Charlie Liffiton
	Liffiton with the Portage Lakes HC.
Born	December 14, 1878; Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Died	August 11, 1941 (aged 62); Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Height	5 ft 7 in (170 cm)
Weight	170 lb (77 kg; 12 st 2 lb)
Position	Right Wing
Shot	Right
Played for	WPHL; Pittsburgh Bankers; IPHL; Portage Lakes Hockey Club; NHA; Montreal Wanderers; Montreal Hockey Club; Exhibition; Toronto Professionals
Playing career	1899–1907

Charles Albert Liffiton (December 14, 1878 – August 11, 1941) was an early professional ice hockey player. Over the span of his career he played for the Montreal Hockey Club, the professional Pittsburgh Bankers of the Western Pennsylvania Hockey League, the Toronto Professionals of the Ontario Professional Hockey League and the Portage Lakes Hockey Club of the International Professional Hockey League.

Charlie Liffiton, second from left in the front row, with the Toronto Professionals in the 1906–07 season.

Biography

Charlie Liffiton was the son of a jeweler and grew up in a family of one sister and six brothers. He worked in his fathers jewelry and confection store in Montreal, but preferred playing hockey. During the 1899–1900 season of the Canadian Amateur Hockey League Charlie was the second best scorer for his Montreal Hockey Club and the leagues eighth leading scorer posting 8 goals in 8 games. However, during the 1901–02 season, he helped the Montreal HC win the CAHL championship and later defeat the Winnipeg Victorias and capture the Stanley Cup. He was also one of the top ten league scorers for the third season in a row.

Liffiton played only one game of the 1902–03 season for Montreal, before traveling to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to help the Pittsburgh Bankers win the Western Pennsylvania Hockey League championship. The WPHL was a professional league and by playing there, Charlie became a professional player. Over the next two season, he played for the Bankers and at least one match for the Montreal Wanderers.

In 1904 the Portgage Lakes Hockey Club of Houghton, Michigan lured him away from the Wanderers to play the remainder of the season for $1350. He was reported to be the highest paid player in the International Professional Hockey League that year. Statistics from his hockey career show he was active through the 1906–07 professional exhibition season with the Toronto Professionals.

Family

His younger brother was Ernie Liffiton who also played professional ice hockey. He is an ancestor of David Liffiton of the Colorado Avalanche and New York Rangers. Around 1916, Charlie married Lena Margaret Clark. The couple had five children. It was also around 1916, that Charlie began his own business building automobile garages.

Stanley Cup engraving

While Charlie is a Stanley Cup champion, his name is not on the Cup. 1902 is one of the few years when only the team's name was engraved on the Cup, not each player's.

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References

"One of the most famous of the Canadian hockey players" liffiton.net
"C. Liffiton and Campbell Displayed Good Form" New York Times, February 10, 1901.

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