(1878-12-05)December 5, 1878 St. Marys, Ontario, Canada
Died
June 24, 1929(1929-06-24) (aged 50) Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Height
5 ft 9 in (175 cm)
Weight
170 lb (77 kg; 12 st 2 lb)
Position
Goaltender
Caught
Left
Played for
Pittsburgh Keystones (WPHL) Portage Lakes (IPHL) Montreal Wanderers (ECAHA/NHA)
Playing career
1898–1911
William Milton "Riley" Hern (December 5, 1878 – June 24, 1929) was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender. He was the first professional goaltender to play on a Stanley Cup-winning team.[1]
^Kevin Allen and Bob Duff (2002). Without Fear: Hockey's 50 greatest goaltenders. Chicago: Triumph Books. p. 107. ISBN 1-57243-484-8.
William Milton "Riley" Hern (December 5, 1878 – June 24, 1929) was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender. He was the first professional goaltender...
the name Hern include: Dick Hern (1921–2002), British horse trainer Kevin Hern (born 1961), American businessman and politician RileyHern (1880–1929)...
Honoured Members of the Hockey Hall of Fame: Moose Johnson, Hod Stuart, RileyHern, Lester Patrick, and Ernie Russell. Before the 1909 season started, Montreal...
pursue his government career. The Wanderers added two professionals, RileyHern from the Portage Lake-Houghton pros and Hod Stuart from the Pittsburgh...
continual fire on "Riley" Hern, the Montreal Wanderers goalkeeper, got on his nerves so much that the boys got to calling my shots "bullets." Hern dropped out...
Billy Gilmour RW Canada Ebbie Goodfellow C–D Canada Shorty Green F Canada RileyHern G Canada Tom Hooper F Canada Bouse Hutton G Canada Jack Laviolette D–LW...
Hockey League. Amongst his teammates on the Keystones that season were RileyHern and Harry Peel, with Peel later admitting to being paid money to play...
Thistles countered by arguing that the Wanderers brought in Hod Stuart and RileyHern back in January. Foran defended the choice to allow Stuart, noting there...
from Nova Scotia, on December 27 and 29, 1906, and along with teammates RileyHern, Frank Glass, Moose Johnson and Jack Marshall, became the first professional...
1908 Edmonton HC 3 at Montreal Wanderers 7 Pos Bert Lindsay G William "Riley" Hern Lester Patrick P Art Ross Didier Pitre CP Walter Smaill Fred Whitcroft...
great players such as future Hall of Famers Alf Smith, Hod Stuart and RileyHern. These players played for pay in Pittsburgh, eventually forcing the Canadian...
Among the players on the team were: Jack Gibson George Cochrane Joe Hall RileyHern Barney Holden Fred Lake Bruce Stuart Cyclone Taylor International Professional...
The 1905–06 team included four future Hockey Hall of Fame members in RileyHern, Joe Hall, Bruce Stuart and Cyclone Taylor. In 1907, Holden moved back...
contract. Along with teammates Jack Marshall, Hod Stuart, Frank Glass and RileyHern, Johnson became the first professional player ever allowed to compete...
Hod Stuart (cover point)† Goaltenders Henri "Doc" Menard† William "Riley" Hern† James Strachan (President), Clarence McKerrow (Hon. President), Dickie...
ice surface. In 1901 Pittsburgh had lured future Hall-of-Famers like RileyHern and Alf Smith into the league, along with several of the era's top players...
Jimmy Gardner Jack Gibson Joe Hall RileyHern Newsy Lalonde Hugh Lehman Jack Laviolette George McNamara Didier Pitre Oliver Seibert Tommy Smith Bruce Stuart...
exhibition games, but raided Pittsburgh's teams for top players like RileyHern and Bruce Stuart. After the 1903–04 WPHL season, the Pittsburgh Victorias...
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