Niilo Tammisalo

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Niilo Tammisalo
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Niilo Tammisalo with the Finnish Champion HJK football team in 1911.
Personal information
Birth nameNiilo Rudolf Ekbom
NicknamePalloprofessori "The Ball Professor"
Born(1894-10-15)15 October 1894
Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland
Died5 February 1982(1982-02-05) (aged 87)
Helsinki, Finland
Resting place Hietaniemi Cemetery
Height1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight74 kg (163 lb)
Association football career
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1910-1926 HJK
International career
1919-1923 Finland 29 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
Bandy career
Playing position Forward
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps†(Gls)†
HJK
National team
Finland 7

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

† Appearances (Goals).

Contents

Ice hockey career
Position Forward
Played for
National teamFlag of Finland.svg  Finland
Playing career 1928–1934

Niilo Rudolf Tammisalo (originally Ekbom; 15 October 1894 - 5 February 1982) was an influential figure in Finnish sports in the first half of the 20th century. He was a versatile athlete who represented Finland as a player with the national teams in football, ice hockey, and bandy; he was also on Finnish Champion teams in each of the three sports with domestic clubs. When his career as a player came to a close in the early 1930s, he dedicated himself to coaching, refereeing, teaching, and administrating sports organizations.

Tammisalo was a founding member of the Ilves Sports Club and won the Finnish Championship in ice hockey as head coach of Ilves in 1936 and 1937. [1] He was the first chairman of Basketball Finland (1939-1943), served as head coach of the Finland national team (1937-38 & 1946), was a sports instructor and lecturer at the University of Helsinki (1938-1958), and served as a referee in international competitions for football, ice hockey, and bandy.

Playing career

The 1911 HJK representative team, winners of the club's first Finnish Championship Cup. Goaltender Niilo Tammisalo is in the first row, center. HJK champions 1911.png
The 1911 HJK representative team, winners of the club's first Finnish Championship Cup. Goaltender Niilo Tammisalo is in the first row, center.

Football

Tammisalo played as goalkeeper at the semi-professional level with Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi (HJK) (Helsinki Football Club). He began playing on the club's representative team in 1911, when he was 17 years old, and would remain loyal to HJK throughout his sixteen-season football career, helping them achieve seven Finnish Championship Cup victories (1911, 1912, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1923 and 1925). He is credited as the first Finnish goalkeeper to knock the ball away from the goal with his fist. [2]

Bandy

Tammisalo was a four time Finnish Champion in bandy with HJK, in 1921, 1923, 1924 and 1928.

Ice hockey

Tammisalo was Finnish Champion in ice hockey while playing with HJK in 1929 and with Tampereen Palloilijat (TaPa) in 1931. While acting as captain and coach of the Tampereen Ilves he won Finnish Championship bronze in 1934.

International play

Bandy

Tammisalo played in seven games with the Finnish men's national bandy team. He participated in the particularly significant match at the 1919 Finnish Winter Games, the first game in which players represented the recently independent nation Finland. [3] The national team's roster was dominated by players from Viipurin Sudet and Tammisalo (from HJK) was one of only three players representing a different domestic club. The national team's match against the Swedish club IFK Uppsala resulted in a 4-1 victory that was described in the press as “one of the most amazing achievements of Finnish athletes.” [4]

Ice hockey

Tammisalo is credited with one appearance representing Finland in international ice hockey competition, a three-game series of friendlies against the Swedish national team that were played in Stockholm in February 1933. [5]

Non-playing career

Awards and honors

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References

Content in this article is translated from the existing Finnish Wikipedia article at fi:Niilo Tammisalo; see its history for attribution.

  1. ↑ "Ilves Sports Club". Ilves ry (in Finnish). Retrieved 2019-08-19.
  2. 1 2 "HJK Hall of Fame: Niilo Tammisalo" (in Finnish). Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi (HJK). 2015-12-16. Retrieved 2019-08-19.
  3. ↑ Lavikainen, Jouni (2019-01-18). "Suomen talvikisat 1919 – itsenäisen Suomen ensimmäiset suurkilpailut" [Finnish Winter Games 1919 - The First Major Sporting Competition of Independent Finland] (in Finnish). Sports Museum of Finland (Suomen Urheilumuseo). Retrieved 2019-08-21.
  4. ↑ Koskinen, Jukka (2019-01-28). "Suomi-Ruotsi -maaotteluita jo 100-vuotta" [100-years of Finland-Sweden matches] (in Finnish). Finnish Bandy Federation . Retrieved 2019-08-21.
  5. ↑ Pakarinen, Risto (2018-09-19). "Portti maailmalle - Maajoukkueen ensimmäinen kiertue Ruotsissa antoi oppia, mutta ei voittoja" [Gateway to the World - The national team’s first tour in Sweden provided lessons but no wins] (in Finnish). Finnish Ice Hockey Association . Retrieved 2019-08-21.
  6. ↑ Paavola, Juho. "Kultakaulaiset ilvekset". Koskesta Voimaa (in Finnish). Retrieved 2019-08-21.
  7. ↑ Viita, Ossi (2018-02-18). "Pitkä taival Suomen ensimmäiseen jääkiekon olympiamitaliin" (in Finnish). Suomen Urheilumuseo (Finnish Museum of Sport). Retrieved 2019-08-21.
  8. ↑ "Sata urheilullista ja liikuttavaa helsinkiläislegendaa valittu" [One hundred Sports and Physical Exercise Legends of Helsinki selected] (in Finnish). City of Helsinki Department of Sports and Physical Exercise. 2019-06-11. Retrieved 2019-08-20.
  9. ↑ "Valmentajien Kunniagalleria: Niilo Tammisalo" (in Finnish). Suomen Valmentajat ry (Finnish Coaches Association). Retrieved 2019-08-19.
  10. ↑ "Hall of Fame" (in Finnish). Football Museum of Finland (Suomen Jalkapallomuseo). Retrieved 2019-08-22.
  11. ↑ "Hall of Fame: Niilo Tammisalo" (in Finnish). Basketball Finland . Retrieved 2019-08-21.
  12. ↑ "Finnish Basketball Hall of Fame täydentyi kahdeksalla koripallolegendalla" [Finnish Basketball Hall of Fame is rounded out with eight Basketball Legends] (in Finnish). Basketball Finland. 2019-08-19. Retrieved 2019-08-19.

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