Conrad MacNeil
Connie Scores 7-Second Hat Trick
Connie MacNeil was a fast, accurate scorer for the Acadia University hockey team in the late 1940s and early 1950s. A member of the class of ‘53, the Glace Bay, Nova Scotia native made the hockey team as a freshman, even more remarkable as the team already had many outstanding players such as Neil MacVicar and Doug Roach. Playing on the third line during the 1949-50 season, he soon became known for scoring clutch goals.
In a playoff game with the Kentville, Nova Scotia Wildcats of the Valley Senior Hockey League, he “won acclaim by scoring three goals in seven seconds in the last game of the Acadia-Kentville Wildcats series. National Hockey League officials terms the feat “fantastic.” Unfortunately, Acadia did not win the playoff series, though MacNeil’s incredible feat gave fans something to cheer about. MacNeil also played football on the intermediate team.
After receiving a BA and a BEd in 1953, Conrad MacNeil taught at several schools before becoming Supervisor of the Kings County [Nova Scotia] Amalgamated School Board.
(Acadia Athenaeum, 14 March 1950, 5)
