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A. Edward "Eddie" Martin - Halifax Eurekas Team Captain, 1899
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A. Edward "Eddie" Martin -Cover Point/Team Captain
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A. Edward "Eddie" Martin - Halifax Eurekas Team Captain (1899-1901)
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A. Edward "Eddie" Martin -Cover Point (Team Captain)
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A. Edward "Eddie" Martin -Cover Point (Joined team after starting season on Eurekas)
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A. Edward "Eddie" Martin -Cover Point /Team Captain
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But if you ask hockey historian George Fosty, he'll tell you it could have been Eddie Martin of the all-black Halifax Eurekas, 100 years ago.
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Most people have never heard of Martin, or the Eurekas, or the Coloured Hockey League, despite the fact the league marked the high point of a black hockey tradition among the Canadian children and grandchildren of freed slaves.