# Joe Linder > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Joe_Linder > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Joe_Linder.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Linder > Source revision: 1316942817 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{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](/source/Hancock%2C_Michigan), [Michigan](/source/Michigan) | death_date = {{death date and age|1948|6|28|1886|8|12}} | death_place = [Superior](/source/Superior%2C_Wisconsin), [Wisconsin](/source/Wisconsin) | height_ft = | height_in = | weight_lb = | position = [Defense](/source/Defenceman) | shoots = | played_for = [Portage Lakes HC](/source/Portage_Lakes_Hockey_Club) | 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](/source/Portage_Lakes_Hockey_Club) in 1904.]] '''Joseph Charles "Joe" Linder''' (August 12, 1886 in [Hancock, Michigan](/source/Hancock%2C_Michigan)[http://www.sihrhockey.org/public_player_list.cfm?PageNum_qPlayers=39&letter=l&league_filter=all SIHR – Player List] sihrhockey.org – June 28, 1948) was an American amateur and professional [ice hockey](/source/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](/source/Portage_Lakes_Hockey_Club) in [Houghton](/source/Houghton%2C_Michigan), [Michigan](/source/Michigan), which was considered one of the best American teams at the time. He led his team to a victory over the [Winnipeg Victorias](/source/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 iceUshockeyhalloffame.com, description of Joseph Linders life bio". Linder has also been referred as the “first great American-born hockey player{{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 }}". Outside of Houghton, he also played hockey in his hometown of [Hancock](/source/Hancock%2C_Michigan), as well as in [Calumet](/source/Calumet%2C_Michigan) and [Duluth](/source/Duluth%2C_Minnesota). After he retired, he went into the grocery store business. He died at home in 1948.Ushockeyhalloffame.com life bio He was inducted into the [United States Hockey Hall of Fame](/source/United_States_Hockey_Hall_of_Fame) in 1974. ==References== {{reflist}} ==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 --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Joe Linder](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Linder) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Linder?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.