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ross began his career as a hockey coach in the midst of his playing days when at age 24 he led the mcgill university redmen to a 4 2 1 record during the 1910 11 season following his playing career ross became a nhl referee he was hired to coach the hamilton tigers for the 1922 23 season and adopted new methods in training camp that emphasized physical fitness including work off the ice however the tigers finished with a record of six wins and eighteen losses last in the nhl for the third successive year and ross did not return the next season his next coaching appointment arose from meeting boston grocery store magnate charles adams during the 1924 stanley cup finals before the 1924 season the nhl awarded adams an expansion team adams ' first move was to hire ross as vice president general manager coach and scout adams instructed ross to come up with a nickname portraying an untamed animal displaying speed agility and cunning with this in mind ross named the team the boston bruins after the old english word for a bear the team 's nickname went perfectly with the original colours of brown and yellow which were the same colours of adams ' grocery chain first national stores
ross utilized his many hockey connections throughout canada and the united states to sign players even so the team started poorly early in the first season the university of toronto hockey team was in boston for matches against local universities the team 's manager conn smythe who later owned and managed the toronto maple leafs said that his team could easily defeat the bruins ross 's team had won only two of their first fifteen nhl games this began a feud between smythe and ross which lasted for over 40 years until ross ' death while mostly confined to newspaper reports they refused to speak to each other at nhl board of governor meetings the bruins finished their first season with six wins in thirty games one of the worst records in the history of the league several records were set over the course of the season the three home wins are tied for the second fewest ever and an eleven @@ game losing streak from december 8 1924 until february 17 1925 set a record for longest losing streak surpassed in 2004 and now second longest in history with 17 wins in 36 games the following season the team greatly improved and finished one point out of a playoff spot
in 1926 the western hockey league the other top professional hockey league was in decline the patrick brothers who controlled the league offered to sell the remaining five teams for $ 300 @@ 000 ross realized the potential talent available and convinced adams to pay the money as a result the bruins acquired the rights to several future hall of fame players the most notable being defender eddie shore ross signed goaltender cecil tiny thompson in 1928 who was with a team in minnesota despite never watching him play ralph cooney weiland was also brought over from minnesota ross acquired cy denneny from ottawa and made him a player @@ assistant @@ coach while he assumed the role of coach and team manager on november 20 1928 the bruins moved to a new arena when the boston garden opened the team played the canadiens who won the match 1 0 in front of 16 @@ 000 fans the players signed by ross helped the bruins to improve quickly and they won the stanley cup in 1929 denneny retired after the cup win ross guiding the team to several league records in the 1929 30 season the team won 38 of 44 games for an 875 winning percentage the highest in league history the five losses tied a record for fewest ever and the four road losses tied a record for second fewest the bruins also only finished one game in a tie a record for fewest ties in a season since the nhl began recording the record in 1926 one of the longest winning streaks was also set during the season from december 3 1929 until january 9 1930 the team won fourteen games in a row a record that lasted until 1982 and now tied for third longest as of october 2010 a home winning streak began the same day and lasted for twenty games until march 18 1930 which was tied for the longest of its kind in 1976 in 1930 31 the bruins again lost only one home game which equalled their previous record
on march 26 1931 ross substituted a sixth skater for goaltender tiny thompson in the final minute of play in a playoff game against the montreal canadiens although the bruins lost the game 1 0 ross became the first coach to replace his goaltender with an extra attacker a tactic which became widespread practice in hockey stepping aside as coach in 1934 to focus on managing the team ross hired frank patrick as coach with a salary of $ 10 @@ 500 which was high for such a role however rumours spread during the season that patrick was drinking heavily and not being as strict with the players as ross wanted after the bruins lost their playoff series with the toronto maple leafs in the 1936 playoffs the result of an 8 1 score in the second game a newspaper claimed that patrick had been drinking the day of the game and had trouble controlling the team several days later ross relieved patrick of his duties and once again assumed the role of coach

= = = 1936 54 = = =

ross took over an improved team he had recently signed three players milt schmidt bobby bauer and woody dumart who all grew up together in kitchener ontario and had them play on the same line soon nicknamed the kraut line in reference to the german heritage of all three along with them ross had acquired a new goaltender in 1938 frank brimsek after brimsek earned six shutouts in his first eight games the bruins traded away tiny thompson to allow brimsek to play with these players the bruins finished first in the league in 1937 38 ross was named as the second best coach in the league selected for the end of season all @@ star second team the next season the bruins won 36 of 48 games and won the stanley cup in the playoffs ross was named to the first all @@ star team as the best coach in the league for the season and the team only tied two games which is tied for the second fewest in a season he hired the recently retired cooney weiland to coach the bruins for the 1939 40 nhl season the bruins would win the cup again in 1941 and tied their record of only four away losses all season ross once again took over as coach of the team before the 1941 42 season began as weiland became coach of the hershey bears of the american hockey league and led the team to 25 wins in 48 games which was enough to earn third place in the league by this time the second world war had caused several bruins players including the entire kraut line and goaltender brimsek to enlist in their respective armed forces the bruins finished second in the nhl during the 1942 43 season with 24 wins in 50 games and ross was again named in the second nhl all @@ star team as second best coach in the league the bruins missed the playoffs in 1943 44 the first time in ten years they failed to qualify but returned to the playoffs the next season something they did for five straight years
in 1949 ross had signed georges boucher as coach but boucher did not work well with ross and team president weston adams looking to hire a new coach in the summer of 1950 ross phoned lynn patrick the son of lester who had just resigned from the new york rangers after coaching the team to the stanley cup final lynn had moved his family back to victoria british columbia where he grew up as a child with the intention of coaching the victoria cougars a team in the minor professional pacific coast hockey league though reluctant to move back to the eastern united states lynn was hired by ross after he was offered a salary of $ 12 @@ 000 he would coach the team for the next four seasons and become the second general manager of the bruins when ross retired at the end of october 1954

= = = legacy = = =

aside from his career in hockey ross was interested in improving the game prior to the start of the 1927 28 season the nhl adopted a new style of goal net created by ross with the back molded into a b @@ shape it was better designed to catch pucks and the net was used until 1984 when a modified version was adopted he also improved the design of the puck ross ' design had bevel edges which prevented it bouncing too much and used synthetic rubber rather than the natural rubber previously in vogue along with new york rangers coach frank boucher ross helped to create the red line which was introduced to help speed up the game by removing the ability for defenders to pass the puck from the defensive to offensive zone until 2006 it was against the rules of hockey to make a two line pass more scoring chances resulted as teams could not simply send the puck down the ice with impunity in order to help tell the red line and blue lines apart on television ross suggested that the red line be striped
regarded throughout his playing career as one of the best defenders in hockey ross was named to the hockey hall of fame in 1949 selected for his playing career rather than his work as an executive a ceremony for his induction was held prior to a bruins game on december 2 1949 where he was given his hall of fame scroll and a silver tray with the emblems of the six nhl teams on it in 1975 he was inducted into the canadian sports hall of fame along with his two sons he donated the art ross trophy to the nhl in 1947 to be awarded to the leading scorer in the league 's regular season in 1984 he was posthumously awarded the lester patrick trophy for service to hockey in the united states
a descriptive biography entitled art ross the hockey legend who built the bruins by eric zweig was published by dundurn press in sept 2015

= = personal life = =

ross also excelled in baseball football lacrosse and motorcycle racing before he became a hockey executive he had a career as a bank clerk and ran a sporting @@ goods store in montreal ross had moved to brandon manitoba in 1905 at the advice of his parents so he could get a job with a bank with a salary of $ 600 per year he gave that career up when he began playing hockey professionally he was married to muriel a native of montreal and had two sons art and john during the second world war both sons served in the royal canadian air force after the war ross made his son art the business manager for the bruins ross was named coach and manager of the boston bruins in 1924 and moved his family to brookline massachusetts a suburb of boston after being hired in 1928 he served as the traveling secretary of the boston braves baseball team which was owned by bruins owner charles adams he became a naturalized american citizen on april 22 1938 on august 5 1964 ross died at a nursing home in medford massachusetts a suburb of boston at the age of 79 a sister both his sons and three grandchildren survived him

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* playing stats from total hockey

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* coaching stats from total hockey

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* awards from legends of hockey


= saint leonard catholic church ( madison nebraska ) =

saint leonard catholic church is a roman catholic church in the city of madison in the state of nebraska in the midwestern united states built in 1913 it has been described as an outstanding example of the romanesque revival style of architecture
st leonard 's parish named after saint leonard of port maurice was organized in 1879 a wood frame church was built in 1881 on the outskirts of madison and moved into the city in 1898 in 1902 the basement of the current church was built and the congregation moved into it converting the old church to a school when funds allowed the basement was extended and the current brick church completed in 1913
in 1989 the church its 1912 rectory and the rectory 's garage were listed in the national register of historic places as the work of noted nebraska architect jacob m nachtigall a pupil of thomas rogers kimball nachtigall designed a number of catholic churches and other buildings in the state several of which are also listed in the national register

= = history = =

the first white settlers to occupy the site of madison were a party led by henry mitchell barnes who settled near the junction of union and taylor creeks in 1867 growth of the new settlement was rapid in particular there was an influx of german families from wisconsin the town of madison was officially platted by barnes in 1870 or 1871 in 1875 it became the county seat of madison county and in 1876 it was incorporated the union pacific railroad reached madison in 1879 by 1880 the town had a population of about 300
the first christian services held in madison were presbyterian taking place in barnes 's and other homes a presbyterian congregation was organized in 1870 and a church built in 1872 a methodist circuit encompassing madison and antelope counties was organized in 1871 a parsonage was built in madison ca 1875 and a church begun in 1877 a lutheran congregation may have formed in madison in about 1875 although early records are incomplete the congregation was initially served by the pastor of a lutheran church in green garden precinct located about seven miles ( 11 km ) southwest of madison it was formally organized in 1885 and a church built in madison in 1887
the first catholic settlers in madison county homesteaded near present @@ day battle creek northwest of madison in the late 1860s in 1874 they organized a parish in 1874 75 they built st patrick 's church the county 's first catholic church in 1877 they wrote to bishop james o 'connor of the diocese of omaha asking that a priest be assigned to visit the church at intervals until a permanent priest could be assigned to the parish in apparent response to this franciscan missionaries based in columbus were given the responsibility of providing for madison county

= = = 1879 1900 = = =

in 1879 a group of catholic residents of the madison area met to plan the building of a church at the meeting a total of $ 426 @@ 75 was subscribed additional contributions of $ 322 @@ 86 were obtained from citizens of madison in january 1880 the church 's trustees spent $ 100 for five acres ( 2 @@ 0 ha ) on a hill at the southeastern edge of town in the spring a party of parishioners drove their ox teams to wisner about 30 miles ( 50 km ) northeast of madison for the first load of lumber for the new church the 30 @@ by @@ 40 @@ foot ( 9 m × 12 m ) frame structure with a capacity of 100 was completed in november 1881 the total cost was $ 957 @@ 61 leaving $ 208 @@ 00 owed to the carpenter the new church was dedicated to st leonard of port maurice an 18th @@ century franciscan priest preacher ascetic and writer venerated as the patron saint of parish missions
in 1882 a parcel of land southeast of the church was purchased for a cemetery a one @@ year @@ old child buried in september of that year became its first occupant the cemetery was fenced in 1883 in 1884 the church was enlarged a sacristy and a room for the priest were added to the east end and a steeple to the west end
as madison 's population grew the church became too small for the expanding congregation in addition its location outside of the city was inconvenient for many parishioners in 1898 a tract of land inside madison was bought rather than building a new church at the time the parish elected to move the old one to the new site the church was moved in two parts when it was reconstructed another section was added between them increasing the building 's seating capacity to 180 the church on the new site was dedicated in november 1898

= = = 1900 1913 = = =

in the early 20th century the parish decided that the old church should be remodelled into a school and a convent for the teachers and that a new church should be built brother leonard <unk> a franciscan architect drew up plans for a church but financial constraints precluded its construction instead a temporary basement church was built just west of the old church building it is not known whether the design of the basement used <unk> 's plans construction of the basement church began in july 1902 services were held there beginning in september 1902 and it was dedicated in february 1903
the school opened in september 1903 with two classrooms staffed by two members of the sisters of the presentation of dubuque iowa 66 students were enrolled including a number of non @@ catholics owing to overcrowding in the public schools to make more space available a basement was dug in 1904 in 1910 a third classroom was added
in 1910 the franciscans turned the management of the parish over to the diocese of omaha in october of that year edward s muenich became the first diocesan pastor of st leonard 's
muenich embarked upon an extensive building campaign for which he retained omaha architect jacob m nachtigall born in germany in 1874 nachtigall had immigrated to the united states with his family in 1883 initially working as a laborer in omaha he had served as a draftsman for that city 's 1898 trans @@ mississippi and international exposition he had then worked as a draftsman for omaha architect thomas rogers kimball from 1900 to 1908 during this time kimball had designed the city 's st cecilia 's cathedral in 1909 nachtigall had opened his own architectural office
in 1911 a two @@ story eight @@ room brick rectory designed by nachtigall was begun it was completed and furnished in 1912 at a cost of $ 10 @@ 374 in the fall of 1912 the church basement was extended by over 50 percent

= = = 1913 1946 = = =

in 1913 a romanesque revival church designed by nachtigall was built on the existing basement the cornerstone was laid and construction begun in may the church was completed by the end of november and formally dedicated on december 4 the cost of construction was about $ 75 @@ 000 while the church was under construction catholic services were held in madison 's armory
the new church had a seating capacity of 700 in its 110 @@ foot ( 34 m ) tower was a clock with four six @@ foot ( 1 @@ 8 m ) dials and a peal of three bells contributed by the citizens of madison beside summoning the parishioners to mass these rang the quarter @@ hours marking time for the residents of the city and the surrounding rural areas
while the urban united states experienced an economic boom during the 1920s the agricultural sector of the country experienced a depression disruption of european agriculture by world war i had produced high prices for farm commodities and it had been thought that europe 's recovery would be slow and that the high prices would persist this gave rise to a bubble in farmland prices which burst when the rapid postwar recovery of european agriculture drove commodity prices down again at the same time increasing mechanization reduced the need for farm labor pushing agricultural wages downward and rural unemployment upward madison and st leonard 's parish suffered from this agricultural depression and from the great depression of the 1930s during this time the parish 's population remained more or less stable in 1918 it consisted of 440 individuals in 1929 452
in 1926 the parish was forced to close its school since the presentation sisters were no longer able to staff it the school re @@ opened in 1931 with 60 pupils taught by missionary benedictine sisters based in norfolk
the onset of world war ii once again brought prosperity to rural nebraska and it persisted into the 1950s st leonard 's paid off its remaining debt held a mortgage @@ burning ceremony in 1946 and began raising funds for a new school

= = = 1946 present = = =

the cornerstone for a new school was laid in november 1953 a property adjoining the new school site was bought and the house standing upon it converted to a convent for the nuns staffing the school the new building was completed and opened for classes in august 1954 the old school which had begun life as the first st leonard 's church was demolished that fall and its site became a parking lot
the benedictine sisters withdrew from the school in 1978 prompting the closing of the seventh and eighth grades the school continued to offer grades 1 6 taught by three lay instructors
beginning in the early 1990s madison experienced a large influx of hispanics in 1990 madison county 's population was 2 hispanic by 2010 the number had increased to 13 in the city of madison whose single largest employer was a meatpacking plant with over 1000 employees operated by <unk> and then by tyson foods the increase was far greater the hispanic fraction of the population rose from less than 1 in 1980 to 48 @@ 8 in 2010 as the spanish @@ speaking population increased and the white non @@ hispanic population fell by 2011 an estimated two @@ thirds of st leonard 's parishioners were hispanic beginning in 1991 the archdiocese assigned spanish @@ speaking priests to the parish and both english and spanish @@ language services were offered
the centennial of the church building was celebrated in december 2013 at a bilingual mass conducted by elden curtiss archbishop emeritus of the archdiocese of omaha

= = architecture = =

in 1989 three of the parish 's buildings the church the rectory and the rectory 's garage were added to the national register of historic places as the work of distinguished nebraska architect jacob m nachtigall beside st leonard 's nachtigall designed a number of other notable buildings in nebraska many of them catholic these include st mary of the assumption church in dwight ( 1914 ) st anthony 's church in cedar rapids ( 1919 ) st bonaventure 's church in <unk> ( 1919 ) immaculate conception church in omaha ( 1926 ) and father flanagan 's house at boys town ( 1927 )

= = = church = = =

the church is oriented east @@ west with the main entrance facing westward it is just over 153 feet ( 47 m ) long from east to west 52 feet ( 16 m ) wide from north to south the walls are made of mosaic gray pressed brick trimmed with bedford stone rising from a rock @@ faced limestone foundation and are about 40 feet ( 12 m ) high the peak of the roof is about 70 feet ( 21 m ) above ground level
at the west end of the church a 110 @@ foot ( 34 m ) belltower rises above the main entrance the tower is topped with a copper dome capped with a cross it contains three bells weighing 900 1 @@ 600 and 2 @@ 500 pounds ( 410 730 and 1 @@ 130 kg ) the tower 's clock has four six @@ foot ( 1 @@ 8 m ) dials below the tower a flight of seventeen steps ascends to the church 's main entrance via a set of double doors through a semicircular archway
the church 's north and south walls are supported by a series of buttresses seven windows run along each wall a line of brick corbels runs along the walls below the eaves near the east end of the church a short transept extends a short distance outward at the church 's east end beyond the transept is a semicircular apse with a conical roof topped with a six @@ paned conical skylight

= = = = interior = = = =

the interior plan of the church consists of a nave a short transept and a semicircular apse at the west end of the nave is a narthex at the center of this is a vestibule leading to the church 's main entrance at the church 's northwest corner is a reconciliation room formerly a baptistry at the southwest corner is a short passage from which a staircase descends to the basement and another rises to the choir loft in the loft is the church 's organ a tracker model manufactured by the <unk> organ company in 1879 the organ was not originally built for st leonard 's
the nave measures 98 feet ( 30 m ) between the entrance and the communion rail an aisle passes down its center narrower aisles follow the north and south walls two rows of seven circular columns run along the nave the columns are made of wood plastered to conceal the material and decorated with corinthian capitals the rib @@ vaulted ceiling rises 30 feet ( 9 @@ 1 m ) above the floor fourteen stained @@ glass windows depicting scenes from the life of christ occupy the nave 's walls the 13 @@ 5 @@ by @@ 5 @@ foot ( 4 @@ 1 m × 1 @@ 5 m ) windows were produced by the muenich art studio of chicago between the windows are sculpted stations of the cross in three spandrels above columns on each side are fresco paintings
two marble steps rise from the nave to the chancel at the top of the steps is a hand @@ carved white wood communion rail decorated with miniature onyx columns and topped with marble
at the northwest and southwest corners of the chancel are two side altars to the north a marian altar to the south an altar of st joseph the original image on the marian altar depicts our lady of the immaculate conception more recently an image of our lady of guadalupe has been added the st joseph altar includes a bone relic of st leonard of port maurice
on the gospel side of the chancel is a large hand @@ carved wood pulpit decorated with carved figures of the four evangelists
the chancel is dominated by the high altar which stands over 20 feet ( 6 @@ 1 m ) tall and which cost its donors $ 2 @@ 080 in 1913 like the communion rail the side altars and the pulpit it is made of hand @@ carved wood decorated with small onyx columns at the base is a relief sculpture of the last supper above that is a marble altar table the tabernacle is just above that to either side is a sculpted angel kneeling to the tabernacle and holding the sanctuary lamps above the tabernacle is a sculpted crucifixion of jesus with the virgin mary and the apostle john on either side of the cross in separate niches on either side of the crucifixion scene are statues of st boniface and st patrick representing the german and irish ethnicity of the parish in the early 20th century above their niches are figures of angels blowing trumpets at the top of the altar is a statue of st leonard
on the half @@ domed ceiling of the apse is a large oil @@ painted mural depicting a scene in heaven in the center god the father and jesus are enthroned on a cloud a stained @@ glass skylight at the top of the dome depicting the holy spirit completes the trinity flanking the father and son are the virgin mary and john the baptist below the cloud is satan in torment at the left and right of the scene is an assemblage of 18 catholic saints and 10 angels

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