{{short description|American ice hockey player}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox ice hockey player | halloffame = | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1886|8|12}} | birth_place = Hancock, Michigan | death_date = {{death date and age|1948|6|28|1886|8|12}} | death_place = Superior, Wisconsin | height_ft = | height_in = | weight_lb = | position = Defense | shoots = | played_for = Portage Lakes HC | career_start = 1906 | career_end = 1920 }} [[File:PortageLakeHC1904.jpg|thumb|right|285px|Linder, at far right in the top row, with the Portage Lakes Hockey Club in 1904.]] '''Joseph Charles "Joe" Linder''' (August 12, 1886 in Hancock, Michigan<ref>[http://www.sihrhockey.org/public_player_list.cfm?PageNum_qPlayers=39&letter=l&league_filter=all SIHR – Player List] sihrhockey.org</ref> – June 28, 1948) was an American amateur and professional ice hockey player, active during the first two decades of the 1900s.
==Career== In 1903–04, then still teenaged Joe Linder played for the Portage Lakes Hockey Club in Houghton, Michigan, which was considered one of the best American teams at the time. He led his team to a victory over the Winnipeg Victorias, which marked the first time an American team had ever beaten them. Linder was instrumental in the victory. As a reporter put it after the game, "Linder stood out as one of the greatest men I have ever seen on ice<ref>Ushockeyhalloffame.com, description of Joseph Linders life bio</ref>".
Linder has also been referred as the “first great American-born hockey player<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.usahockey.com/ushhof/default.aspx?NAV=AF_01&id=242870&DetailedNews=yes |title=Joseph C. Linder. |year=2010 |accessdate=2010-06-29 |quote=... Joe Linder was described by contemporaries and those who have made a study of the game as the “first great American-born hockey player.”...' |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130216140447/http://usahockey.com/ushhof/default.aspx?NAV=AF_01&id=242870&DetailedNews=yes |archive-date=2013-02-16 |url-status=dead }}</ref>". Outside of Houghton, he also played hockey in his hometown of Hancock, as well as in Calumet and Duluth. After he retired, he went into the grocery store business. He died at home in 1948.<ref>Ushockeyhalloffame.com life bio</ref> He was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 1974.
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==External links== * [http://www.ushockeyhall.com/ United States Hockey Hall of Fame bio]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Linder, Joe}} Category:1886 births Category:1948 deaths Category:Ice hockey players from Michigan Category:Sportspeople from Hancock, Michigan Category:Portage Lakes Hockey Club players Category:United States Hockey Hall of Fame inductees Category:American men's ice hockey defensemen Category:20th-century American people