Red Storey Roy Alvin " Red " Storey , ( March 5 , 1918 – March 15 , 2006 ) was a Canadian football player and National Hockey League referee . Early life and career . Born in Barrie , Ontario , Storey was working in a rail yard when he received an offer to play football with the Toronto Argonauts . He was on the team for six seasons from 1936 to 1941 , winning the Grey Cup in 1937 and 1938 . In the 1938 Grey Cup , Storey scored three touchdowns in twelve minutes ( all in the fourth quarter ) of the 1938 game to give the Argos the victory . After his performance , he received offers from the New York Giants and the Chicago Bears of the National Football League , but he declined . He was forced to retire after suffering a knee injury . At the same time he was playing football , Storey was also playing competitive lacrosse . In the Ontario Lacrosse Association , he played for Orillia and was an all - star with the Hamilton Tigers in 1941 . Storey was also a prominent senior men ' s baseball player and received an offer from the Philadelphia Athletics of the American League . As a defenceman , he played hockey in New Jersey for the Rivervale Skeeters in 1941 . Storey then moved to Montreal and joined the Montreal Royals late in the 1941 – 42 season . He played lacrosse for Lachine in 1942 and 1943 . He later joined the Montreal Canadiens lacrosse team , and was playing there in 1946 . By the mid - 1940s , Storey — in addition to his regular job — was officiating football , lacrosse , and hockey games . He officiated for 12 years in the precursor to the Canadian Football League . NHL refereeing career . Storey became an NHL referee in 1950 and worked in the league until 1959 . On April 4 , 1959 , he was officiating a playoff game between the Montreal Canadiens and the Chicago Black Hawks , which Montreal won — along with the series — scoring the winning goal with 88 seconds left in the sixth game . Chicago fans nearly rioted , and Black Hawks coach Rudy Pilous accused Storey of choking by not calling penalties against the Canadiens late in the game . Storey was scheduled to referee the final game in the series between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Boston Bruins , but when an Ottawa newspaper reported that NHL president Clarence Campbell said that Storey had " frozen " on two calls that should have been penalties against the Canadiens , Storey immediately resigned . He never returned to the NHL . His career included 480 regular season games and seven consecutive Stanley Cup finals from 1952 through 1958 . He was popular with NHL players because he talked with them . Gump Worsley said of Storey in his autobiography " They Call Me Gump " : " When Red Storey was refereeing in the NHL , I used to ask him where he was going to get a beer after the game . He usually told me , too . " Following retirement . Following his retirement from the NHL , Storey remained active in oldtimers ' games , worked as a TV commentator , and was a popular raconteur . Storey was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame ( 1967 ) and Canada ' s Sports Hall of Fame ( 1986 ) and was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 1991 . He was 88 when he died in Montreal after a lengthy illness . His son , Bob Storey , was also a two - time Grey Cup winner ( 1967 , 1970 ) .