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5 toronto arenas 1 may 1973 left 160 montreal , qc , can kahnawake , qc , can 100px 1925 defence 8 9 march 1894 paul jacobs.png paul jacobs -lrb- ice hockey -rrb-
 paul jacobs 1912
paul jacobs -lrb- ice hockey -rrb-

paul oronhyatekha jacobs -lrb- march 9 , 1894 -- may 1 , 1973 -rrb- was a canadian professional ice hockey and lacrosse player .
jacobs played one game in the national hockey league -lrb- nhl -rrb- for the toronto arenas during the 1918 -- 19 nhl season .
jacobs may have been the first aboriginal ice hockey player in the nhl .
jacobs was a resident of the kahnawake mohawk territory , south of montreal .
jacobs was proficient as a youth playing lacrosse .
photographs exist of jacobs as a member of the reserve lacrosse team in 1910 .
jacobs was also proficient at ice hockey .
he is first recorded on a hockey team with dominion bridge company team in the 1912-13 season .
records exist for jacobs playing for various teams from 1912 through 1916 and from 1917 through 1925 , the last recorded team being the amateur cleveland ohio blues of the usaha .
jacobs ' record in the nhl is unclear .
jacobs was invited to the torontos ' training camp in december 1918 .
jacobs potentially earned an opening-day roster spot but an announcement in the `` toronto globe '' indicated he was returning to the montreal area instead .
jacobs played several games for the montreal stars of the montreal hockey league that season .
jacobs is recorded in referee reports for five games for toronto between december 31 and february 4 .
however no newspaper reports list jacobs as being in the lineup for any of those games .
he may have been a substitute and did not play .
jacobs is recorded in an ottawa paper for the opening-day december 23 game , but no other newspaper included jacobs in the game report .
an nhl report for the season records jacobs as only participating in the december 31 game .
us census records for 1930 and 1940 list jacobs as living in detroit with his wife alice .
