Connie Hill
Hill from 1949 Michiganensian
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| Full name | Conrad Ralph Hill |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Born | January 15, 1918 Copper Cliff, Ontario |
| Died | August 31, 2001 (aged 83) Newport, Rhode Island |
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| Sport | Ice hockey |
Conrad Ralph "Connie" Hill (January 15, 1918 – August 31, 2001) was a Canadian ice hockey player and professor of journalism and advertising. During his hockey career, he played for the Belleville Reliance (1942–43), the Philadelphia Falcons (1943-44), the Hollywood Wolves (1944–45), the Michigan Wolverines (1945-49), and the Detroit Auto Club (1949–51). He was twice selected as a college hockey All-American and was the captain of the 1947–48 Michigan Wolverines men's ice hockey team that won the 1948 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament. He later worked as a professor at the University of Rhode Island.
Hill was a native of Copper Cliff, Ontario. One source indicates that Hill spent the World War II years playing hockey for the Belleville Reliance (from Belleville, Ontario) of the Ontario Hockey Association's Senior B Series (1942–43), the Philadelphia Falcons of the Eastern Hockey League (1943–44), and the Hollywood Wolves of the Pacific Coast Hockey League (1944–45). Another source reports that Hill served thee years as a tank warfare instructor in the Canadian Army.
In 1945, Hill enrolled at the University of Michigan. While attending Michigan, he played college hockey as a defenseman for the Michigan Wolverines men's ice hockey team from 1945 to 1949 and was the team captain for three consecutive years from the 1945–46 season through the 1947–1948 season. In his history of the Michigan hockey program, John U. Bacon wrote: "With his professorial glasses, thinning hair, and wizened expression, Hill looked much older than his teammates -- and he was, already well into his mid-twenties as a sophomore.". (Hill was 31 when he played his final year of college hockey in 1949.)
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