Herbert Y. Russell was a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 ice hockey

Ice hockey

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 player who played for the Ottawa Hockey Club

Ottawa Senators (original)

The Ottawa Senators were an amateur, and later, professional, ice hockey team based in Ottawa, Canada which existed from 1883 to 1954. The club was the first hockey club in Ontario, a founding member of the National Hockey League and played in the NHL from 1917 until 1934...

 in the 1880s and 1890s. He was captain of the team that won three successive Ontario championships and held the Canadian championship in 1892.

Playing career

Russell played for the Ottawa Hockey Club from 1890 until 1896. He was captain from 1891 through 1893. His best seasons were in 1893–94 and 1894–95 when in both seasons he scored 10 goals in eight games. He left competitive hockey after the 1896 season but played one season of professional hockey in 1901–02 for the Pittsburgh Bankers of the Western Professional Hockey League

Western Professional Hockey League

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A draftsman for the Geological Survey of Canada during his time in Ottawa, moved to Colorado for an engineering position.