National team United States Height 1.80 m Playing career Weight 79 kg | Name John Morrison Education Yale University Role Ice hockey b. 1945 Positions Centerman | |
Born April 6, 1945 (age 78)
Minneapolis, MN, USA ( 1945-04-06 ) Played for Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey | ||
John Lewis "Jack" Morrison (born April 6, 1945) is a former American ice hockey Olympic athlete and corporate manager. Morrison was named a first-team All-American at center in 1967, and then captained the United States men's national ice hockey team at the 1968 Winter Olympics. Herb Brooks was a teammate.
The Olympic team finshed sixth in the competition, with Morrison its leading scorer. Morrison was tied for eighth place in scoring with Marshall Johnston.
Morrison graduated from Yale University the all-time leading scorer for men's hockey with 51 goals and 68 assists, 119 points. He led the team in scoring his senior year with 49 points. Morrison 's professional career has included work in finance and manufacturing.
Morrison was a member of the Yale College Class of 1967. Morrison won the William Neely Mallory Award, given to the Yale senior male who, on the field of play and in his life at Yale, best represents the highest ideals of American sportsmanship and Yale tradition. Before Yale Morrison attended Phillips Academy where he captained the hockey and tennis teams. He is a member of the initial class, along with George H.W. Bush, of the Andover Athletic Hall of Honor. LIFE magazine profiled Morrison as an outstanding secondary school hockey athlete in 1963.
He earned degrees from Yale, where he was a fellow Deke of George W. Bush, and then Harvard Business School, Class of 1971. Morrison founded an investment firm, Goldner Hawn Johnson & Morrison, in Minneapolis, MN. He had been an executive at Pillsbury Company before founding Goldner Hawn