Alan Hugh “Ding” Singleton

Inducted into the Brockville and Area Sports Hall of Fame: June 12th, 2009

Al or “Ding” excelled in several sports, but his favourite was hockey. The late 30’s and 40’s were Al’s Glory Days on Ice. He worked his way up through the Brockville Minor Hockey Program in 1947/48. He made his first major step towards the NHL when he played for the Galt Rockets.

The next season, he moved up to the Boston Olympics of the Old Quebec Senior Hockey League. Then onto the Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen. After that, it would be the NHL, but tragically, during the 1949 summer off-season, Al contracted polio, thus ending his playing career during his rehabilitation. Al helped support the Brockville Memorial Centre and cut the ribbon to open the new centre on February 25, 1951.

Al went on to Coach the University of Guelph Redmen and Gryphons compiling a record of 75 wins, 16 ties and 55 losses.

In October of 2002, Al was inducted into the University of Guelph Sports Hall of Fame posthumously. Alan died of post-polio syndrom in 1995.