{{Short description|Canadian ice hockey player and businessman}} {{about||the Scottish entomologist|Robert Stewart MacDougall}} {{Infobox ice hockey biography | name = Robert MacDougall | image = Rmacd.jpg | alt = Black-and-white photo of a sitting man wearing a sweater-like hockey jersey and holding a hockey stick | caption = MacDougall in the team picture of the Montreal Victorias in 1895 | birth_date = {{birth date|1876|03|02}} | birth_place = Montreal, Quebec, Canada | death_date = {{death date and age|1950|03|26|1876|03|02}} | death_place = | height_cm = | weight_kg = | position = Forward | shoots = | played_for = Montreal Victorias (1893-1899) | ntl_team = | medaltemplates = | show-medals = }} '''Robert Ernest MacDougall''' (March 2, 1876<ref name="bcs-book"/> – March 26, 1950) was a notable Canadian ice hockey player and businessman. He played in the early days of organized ice hockey, before professionalism. He played the position of forward for the Montreal Victorias and was a member of five Stanley Cup-winning teams.<ref>Trail to the Stanley Cup vol. 1 by C. Coleman</ref>
==Personal life== MacDougall was born in Montreal, Quebec. He attended Bishop's College School boarding school in Lennoxville as a youth. At BCS he played hockey with future Victorias teammates Hartland MacDougall (no relation) and Ernie McLea. At age twelve, MacDougall played on the BCS first team of ice hockey, and is noted as one of the youngest to ever do so.<ref name="bcs-book"/>
After ice hockey, MacDougall would become a partner with Hartland MacDougall in the stock-trading firm MacDougall & MacDougall of Montreal. The company continues today as MacDougall MacDougall & MacTier. He also was a executives with Montreal Maroons in 1930's. He won his 6th Stanley Cup getting his name on the Stanley Cup for first time.
==Playing career== Macdougall was the highest scoring forward before the 1900s in Stanley Cup play.{{citation needed|date=September 2010}} MacDougall scored a confirmed total of 49 goals in 36 recorded games.{{citation needed|date=September 2010}} Overshadowed today by the likes of teammates and Hall of Famers Graham Drinkwater and Mike Grant, MacDougall was consistently one of the Montreal Victorias' highest scoring forwards. Later in life his career would take an approach to banking (working alongside Hartland MacDougall of no relation) and he would leave the sport of hockey near the end of the Montreal Victorias' championship run.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.habseyesontheprize.com/2007/03/1896-montreal-victorias-reclaim-stanley.html | title=1896 Montreal Victorias Reclaim Cup in Challenge | work=Eyes On The Prize | date=8 March 2007 | access-date=26 June 2009 | archive-date=22 February 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222100800/http://www.habseyesontheprize.com/2007/03/1896-montreal-victorias-reclaim-stanley.html | url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Championship controversy== Near the end of MacDougall's career he would generally only play championship games due to his work schedule. In his last season, his career would end in some controversy. In a February 1899 Stanley Cup Challenge, with Montreal leading a total goal series with four goals to two against the Winnipeg Victorias, with about 12 minutes left in the game, MacDougall slashed Winnipeg's Tony Gingras. As Gingras was carried off the ice, referee Bill Findlay only called MacDougall for a two-minute minor. Angry that he should have been assessed a larger penalty, Winnipeg went into their dressing room in protest. Insulted, Findlay abruptly went home, but returned after officials followed him on a sleigh and persuaded him to return. Once back at the rink, the referee gave Winnipeg 15 minutes to return to the ice themselves. They refused and thus Findlay disqualified the team and declared Montreal the winners. 4,000 were attending the Winnipeg Auditorium rink to hear returns of the game by telegraph.<ref>{{cite news |work=The Globe |date=February 20, 1899 |page=10 |title=Winnipeg's Story}}</ref>
==Career statistics== {| BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" width="75%" |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" ! colspan="3" bgcolor="#ffffff" | ! rowspan="99" bgcolor="#ffffff" | ! colspan="5" | Regular season ! rowspan="99" bgcolor="#ffffff" | ! colspan="5" | Playoffs |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" ! Season ! Team ! League ! GP ! G ! A ! Pts ! PIM ! GP ! G ! A ! Pts ! PIM |- ALIGN="center" | 1893–94||Montreal Victorias||AHAC||1|| 2||--|| 2 ||--||--||--||--||--||-- |- ALIGN="center" | 1894 || Montreal Victorias ||Stanley Cup||--||--||--||--||--||1||1||0||1||-- |- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 1894–95|| Montreal Victorias || AHAC ||8||10||0||10||--||--||--||--||--||-- |- ALIGN="center" | 1895–96|| Montreal Victorias || AHAC ||6||'''10'''||0||'''10'''||--||--||--||--||--||-- |- ALIGN="center" | 1896 ||Montreal Victorias|| Stanley Cup||--||--||--||--||--||2||2||--||1||-- |- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 1896–97|| Montreal Victorias || AHAC ||8||11||--||11||--||--||--||--||--||-- |- ALIGN="center" | 1897–98|| Montreal Victorias || AHAC ||8||12||0||12||--||--||--||--||--||-- |- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 1898–99|| Montreal Victorias ||CAHL||2||7||0||7||--||--||--||--||--||-- |- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 1899 || Montreal Victorias || Stanley Cup ||--||--||--||--||--||3||2||--||2||-- |- ALIGN="center" |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" |} Notes: :*Led league in scoring in 1895–96 (bold denotes league leader) :*Statistics do not include non-regular-season tournaments. Statistics for 1893–94 and 1896–97 are not fully available. ''Globe and Mail'' editions from 1897 indicate that Robert MacDougall played out the full season and is credited for scoring a minimum of 2 goals, perhaps more. Scoring summaries for most games were not published.
==References== {{Reflist |refs= <ref name="bcs-book">{{cite book |first=J. Graham |last=Patriquin|title=From Little Forks to Moulton Hill |url=https://archive.org/stream/FromLittleForksToMoultonHillVol1/BcsFromLittleForksToMoultonHillVol1_djvu.txt |year=1978 |publisher=Progressive Publications |location=Sherbrooke, Quebec|access-date=February 7, 2014 }}</ref> }}
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