About: Sam Jacks

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Canadian inventor

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  • 1915-04-23 (xsd:date)
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  • Samuel Perry Jacks (en)
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  • 1915-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
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  • 1975-05-14 (xsd:date)
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  • 1975-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
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  • ceapadóir Ceanadach (ga)
  • kanadischer Erfinder (de)
  • Canadian inventor (en)
  • inventor canadianu (1915–1975) (ast)
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  • 1915-04-23 (xsd:date)
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  • Samuel Perry Jacks (en)
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  • 1975-05-14 (xsd:date)
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  • Inventing floor hockey and ringette (en)
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  • Samuel Perry Jacks (en)
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  • Canadian (en)
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  • 0001-04-17 (xsd:gMonthDay)
  • Sudbury Star, 1989 (en)
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  • "Our sons were tremendous hockey players, but Sam could see a drastic need for a game for girls on ice on skates; a team sport. That was the basis for his whole vision. He visualized the whole thing for ringette right up to part of the Olympics some day." (en)
  • Jacks had a drawing with diagonal lines on an ice surface and said the game should be feminine and not rough. He even suggested a three-foot line around the boards which could be a buffer zone, where no body contact would take place. "I then volunteered to go back to Espanola and experiment with the idea," says McCarthy. "I was also the arena manager back then and had acess to ice time... (en)
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  • "Ringette marks fruition of a dream" (en)
  • "The origins of ringette: Espanola's McCarthy developed the game" (en)
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  • Sam Jacks (en)
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  • Samuel Perry Jacks (en)
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