Phil Marshall Sr.

Biography:

Phil has spent a lifetime officiating hockey, football and auto racing.

He spent close to 30 years as a hockey referee, working games in minor hockey, the Ontario Hockey Association and the Ontario Hockey League. He rose to become a referee-in-chief, and he instructed at officials’ certification clinics.

Phil also umpired baseball, and he was a mechanic on the Gibson stock car racing team for ten years. After that, he served as a starter throughout the eastern Ontario racing circuit.

Phil has also been timekeeper at Queens University football games since 1949.

Phil coached minor hockey and baseball for many years and served the Church Athletic League as referee-in-chief. For 10 years, starting in 1960, he resided over the Over-The-Hill Derby for soap box racers.