Syl Apps

Syl Apps
Hockey Hall of Fame, 1961

Born	(1915-01-18)January 18, 1915 Paris, Ontario
Died	December 24, 1998(1998-12-24) (aged 83) Kingston, Ontario
Height	6 ft 0 in (183 cm)
Weight	185 lb (84 kg; 13 st 3 lb)
Position	Centre
Shot	Left
Played for	Toronto Maple Leafs
Playing career	1936–1948

Syl Apps

Ontario MPP
In office 1963–1967
Preceded by	William McAdam Nickle
Succeeded by	Keith Norton
Constituency	Kingston, 1963-1967 Kingston and the Islands, 1967-1975
Personal details
Political party	Progressive Conservative

Charles Joseph Sylvanus Apps, CM (January 18, 1915 in Paris, Ontario – December 24, 1998) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player for the Toronto Maple Leafs from 1936 to 1948, an Olympic pole vaulter and a Conservative Member of Provincial Parliament in Ontario. Apps died of a heart attack on Christmas Eve of 1998. On January 1, 2017, in a ceremony prior to the Centennial Classic, Apps was part of the first group of players to be named one of the '100 Greatest NHL Players' in history.

Apps was a strong athlete, six feet tall, weighing 185 pounds, and won the gold medal at the 1934 British Empire Games in the pole vault competition. Two years later he represented Canada at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany, where he placed sixth in the pole vault event. After watching him play football at McMaster University, Conn Smythe signed Apps to play hockey with the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Apps played centre position with the Toronto Maple Leafs for his entire professional hockey career. His jersey number was 10. He was the winner of the first Calder Trophy in 1937, and the 1942 Lady Byng Memorial Trophy. Apps served as the Maple Leafs captain during the first National Hockey League All-Star Game October 13, 1947, at Maple Leaf Gardens. He also played for an all-star team competing in Montreal on October 29, 1939, to raise money for Babe Siebert's family.