page_title: Samuel Alfred Mitchell
section_title: Ice hockey career
hierarchical_section_title: Samuel Alfred Mitchell / Ice hockey career
caption_attribution_description: English: The ice hockey team of the Johns Hopkins University in 1895–1896 Samuel Alfred Mitchell, Theodore Morgan Leary, Albert Moore Reese, Edwin Delaplaine Nelson, William Whitridge Williams, Rufus Mather Bagg, George Barr Scholl, Malcolm Westcott Hill.
context_page_description: Samuel Alfred Mitchell was a Canadian-American astronomer who studied solar eclipses and set up a program to use photographic techniques to determine the distance to stars at McCormick Observatory, where he served as the director.
context_section_description: While studying at the Johns Hopkins University Mitchell played on the university ice hockey team. In February 1896 he was a part of the Johns Hopkins team that played against the Yale University team in the first two intercollegiate ice hockey games in the United States. The Johns Hopkins team also played six games against the Baltimore Athletic Club during the 1895–96 season, and one game against an All-Washington aggregation.
  As an ice hockey player Mitchell played predominantly at the point position which is an archaic ice hockey position equivalent to a defensive defenseman today. Mitchell also played with the university team during the 1896–97 and 1897–98 seasons.
caption: Samuel Alfred Mitchell, at left in the back row, with the ice hockey team of the Johns Hopkins University during the 1895–96 season.
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