James Ballantine | |
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Born | Georgetown, Ontario, Canada | September 3, 1876
Died | January 7, 1948 71) Georgetown, Ontario, Canada | (aged
Allegiance | Canada |
Service | Canadian Army |
Years of service | 1898–1917 |
Rank | Lieutenant-colonel |
Commands |
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Battles / wars | |
Awards | Queen's South Africa Medal Distinguished Service Order Coaching career |
Biographical details | |
Alma mater | Royal Military College |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
lacrosse | |
1917–1933 | Colgate |
rifle | |
1917–1928 | Colgate |
soccer | |
1917–1924 | Colgate |
ice hockey | |
1920–1922 1927–1928 | Colgate |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 17–62–5 (.232) [lacrosse] 14–10–7 (.565) [soccer] 2–11–0 (.154) [hockey] |
Lt. Col. James Ballantine DSO, CMG was a Canadian veteran of both the Second Boer War and World War I. [1] He later served as a coach and administrator at Colgate University.
Born in Georgetown, Ballantine enrolled at the Royal Military College in 1894 and was a member of the 20th Halton Battalion. He received training at Aldershot and graduated in time to join the British Army for the Second Boer War. At the war's end he received the Queen's Medal for gallantry. [1] Ballantine remained in the military after the war and served in posts within Canada until the outbreak of World War I. Then-Major Ballantine initially served as second in command of the 4th Battalion but assumed temporary control after Arthur Birchall was killed at the Second Battle of Ypres. [2]
Ballantine was severely wounded and returned to Canada to convalesce in the summer of 1915. While recuperating, he was award the Distinguished Service Order by King George V and promoted to Lieutenant-colonel. Once he had recovered, Ballantine organized the 76th Battalion and commanded the unit when it was deployed to France in April 1916. [3] Ballantine remained as its commander until the unit was absorbed by the 36th Battalion. Afterwards, Ballantine was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George for his efforts and briefly commanded the 109th Battalion before it too was absorbed into another unit. Ballantine returned to France with the 4th Battalion and commanded troops on the RMS Empress of Britain until he was mustered out in April of 1917.
In August 1917, Ballantine accepted the directorship of military science at Colgate University in New York. Shortly after his appointment, he was also named as superintendent of ground and buildings as well as taking over the head coaching duties for the school's lacrosse, rifle and soccer teams. Ballantine relinquished control of the soccer team in 1924, helmed the rifle team until its dissolution in 1928 and remained the coach of the lacrosse team until his retirement in 1933. Ballantine also briefly coached the ice hockey team for three seasons. [4]
After his tenure with Colgate ended, Ballantine returned to Georgetown where he remained until his death in 1948.
Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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Colgate Independent(1921–1933) | |||||||||
1921 | Colgate | 1–3–1 | |||||||
1922 | Colgate | 0–5–0 | |||||||
1923 | Colgate | 0–5–0 | |||||||
1924 | Colgate | 2–3–0 | |||||||
1925 | Colgate | 1–7–0 | |||||||
1926 | Colgate | 2–5–0 | |||||||
1927 | Colgate | 2–2–3 | |||||||
1928 | Colgate | 5–4–0 | |||||||
1929 | Colgate | 0–7–0 | |||||||
1930 | Colgate | 2–3–1 | |||||||
1931 | Colgate | 1–6–0 | |||||||
1932 | Colgate | 1–5–0 | |||||||
1933 | Colgate | 0–7–0 | |||||||
Total: | 17–62–5 | ||||||||
National champion Postseason invitational champion |
Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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Colgate Independent(1920–1924) | |||||||||
1920 | Colgate | 2–1–0 | |||||||
1921 | Colgate | 2–4–3 | |||||||
1922 | Colgate | 1–2–2 | |||||||
1923 | Colgate | 5–0–1 | |||||||
1924 | Colgate | 4–3–1 | |||||||
Total: | 14–10–7 | ||||||||
National champion Postseason invitational champion |
Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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Colgate Independent(1920–1922) | |||||||||
1920–21 | Colgate | 2–3–0 | |||||||
1921–22 | Colgate | 0–4–0 | |||||||
Colgate Independent(1927–1928) | |||||||||
1927–28 | Colgate | 0–4–0 | |||||||
Total: | 2–11–0 | ||||||||
National champion Postseason invitational champion |
Distinguished Service Order (1916) | Order of St Michael and St George (1917) | 1914–15 Star (1918) |
British War Medal (1919) | Victory Medal (Mentioned in Dispatches) (1919) | Queen's South Africa Medal (1902) |
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