Giles Threadgold Dies

Us older fans will certainly remember him as a colorful hockey official. He was the ref at many of our significant games, way back when. Here's the USCHO article.

I loved that guy. Once at Lynah two of the Ferguson brothers went into the corner after a puck contested by 2 RPI players. Giles found himself trapped as the play developed, so he leaped up onto the half wall and balanced there on his skates with his arms folded across his chest, looking down at the scrum like a god looking down on the antics of the mortals below. That last great collegiate ref.

Yes. A showboat, but a good solid ref.

Some Giles Threadgold articles:

[cdsun.library.cornell.edu]----

[newspapers.bc.edu]

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Some Giles Threadgold articles:

[cdsun.library.cornell.edu]----

[newspapers.bc.edu]

Thanks, memories.............

Giles in the stripes, Jimmie on the Zamboni, Lou Mobbs running the rink, Ned on the bench, and a RED hot team. Glory days.

Pictures

Two refs, no linesmen! Those guys skated hard for 60 minutes. You could always tell that Giles loved the game and officiating. RIP

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Giles in the stripes, Jimmie on the Zamboni, Lou Mobbs running the rink, Ned on the bench, and a RED hot team. Glory days.

Yes sir, those WERE the days!!!

Giles was a fan favorite at Lynah because we knew we'd get a well-refereed game. With two refs and no linesmen, you needed a ref who really hustled and was in position to make offside calls and still be seeing everything else. His trademark move when the puck came whistling along the boards was to jump up on the dasher and hold on to the top of the glass to get out of the way. And if Ozzie Richardson, sitting along side the Cornell bench, questioned a call, he'd shout back an explanation. Several of the other refs at the time, including Bill Cleary, who later coached Harvard, openly stated that they felt that Canadians shouldn't be playing U.S. college hockey, and we felt there was and anti- Cornell bias by some of them. Giles, on the other hand, had a lot of respect for Ned as a coach. I know that because I happened to have two conversations with him. One was during the 1970 NCAA tournament, when one of my friends with whom I was sitting spotted Giles sitting behind one of the goals during the first game of an ECAC tournament doubleheader in '70, and suggested we go talk to him between periods. Giles commented that Ned got way more out of the players that he had than other coaches. The other conversation was in '77, when I was walking into Boston Garden and happened to spot Giles walking in beside me. I introduced myself as a Cornell '70 grad, and he then when on to tell me that he had done the Union-Army game the night before, and how motivated Ned had the team and how they were flying every shift. RIP, Giles.

jkahn
Giles was a fan favorite at Lynah because we knew we'd get a well-refereed game. ..

Preceded in 2004 by Percy Shore. [elf.elynah.com] That was a great combination. Giles must have been 50-something when I saw him. With the inability of 20-year-olds to discern the age of those over 40, I thought Threadgold was pushing 70.

billhoward

jkahn
Giles was a fan favorite at Lynah because we knew we'd get a well-refereed game. ..

Preceded in 2004 by Percy Shore. [elf.elynah.com] That was a great combination. Giles must have been 50-something when I saw him. With the inability of 20-year-olds to discern the age of those over 40, I thought Threadgold was pushing 70.

One of the fun parts of being 50 is realizing this is reciprocated. I can't tell the difference between kids between about 15 and 25 -- they all seem to be part of the same amorphous blob of entitlement. I'm sure the window will continue to expand so that in my 80s all humans between 6 and 56 will be indistinguishable.