Thomas Coulter (ice hockey)
Thomas Henry "Tom" Coulter (April 21, 1911 – December 17, 2003) was a professional ice hockey defenceman who played two National Hockey League games for the Chicago Black Hawks during the 1933–34 NHL season as a way to pay for tuition as an Engineer. He was brother to Arthur Coulter and was the first NHL player to play in an Australia ice hockey league. Coulter also served as Chief Executive Officer of the Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry for 27 years.
In addition to hockey Coulter was an accomplished all around athlete having played football and setting track and field records including 29th fastest in the world in 1931.
Coulter was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1911 and moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, graduating from Carnegie Mellon University in 1933. He competed in the 1932 Olympic Games as a member of Canada's track team and then attended graduate school at the University of Chicago, receiving a Master’s Degree in Economics in 1935. There he met Mary Alice, whom he married in 1937.