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Originally Posted by Robbob
Looking for confirmation from the judges, but yes old white men wearing monocles and top hats were jerks.
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Funny thing is, most of the owners were relatively young men and none of them were rich. George Kennedy, who owned the Habs, was a retired wrestler, and Sammy Lichtenhein, who owned the Wanderers, managed his old man's cotton and wool waste factory and ran sports teams on the side.
Livingstone was only in his thirties, but he had been an amateur coach and referee in Ontario for years, and knew every good senior player in the province. That gave him a big advantage in the lean years of World War I, when most of the established stars joined the army and went off to the trenches in France. I think some of the bad blood between him and the other owners came because they kept raiding his teams for players and he was inclined to fight back. He had a temper like Donald Duck.