Editing Dit Clapper (section)

{{Short description|Canadian ice hockey player}}
{{Infobox ice hockey player
| halloffame = 1947
| image = Dit_Clapper_photo.png
| image_size = 230px
| birth_date = {{birth date|1907|2|9}}
| birth_place = [[Newmarket, Ontario]], Canada
| death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|1978|1|20|1907|2|9}}
| death_place = [[Peterborough, Ontario]], Canada
| height_ft = 6
| height_in = 2
| weight_lb = 195
| position = [[Winger (ice hockey)|Right wing]]/[[Defenceman|Defence]]
| shoots = Right
| played_for = [[Boston Bruins]]
| career_start = 1927
| career_end = 1947
}}

'''Aubrey Victor "Dit" Clapper''' (February 9, 1907 – January 20, 1978) was a [[Canadians|Canadian]] professional [[ice hockey]] player. Clapper played his entire professional career for the [[Boston Bruins]] of the [[National Hockey League]] (NHL). He was inducted into the [[Hockey Hall of Fame|Hall of Fame]] in 1947, the first Honoured Member to be living at the time of his induction.<ref name="lds">{{cite news |work=Lewiston Daily Sun |title=Pick Eddie Shore and Six Others To National Hockey Hall of Fame |page=9 |date=February 26, 1947 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=CZ4gAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Q2gFAAAAIBAJ&dq=russell%20bowie%20hall%20of%20fame&pg=3290%2C4344082 |access-date=February 7, 2012}}</ref>

Clapper was the first NHL player to play 20 seasons,<ref name="Coleman">{{cite book |title=Trail of the Stanley Cup, Vol II |last=Coleman |first=Charles |year=1969 |publisher=Progressive Publications Ltd. |location=Sherbrooke, PQ |page=627 }}</ref> one of only two to be an All-Star at both forward and defence, and the first non-goaltender to play at the age of 40.<ref name="Greg">{{cite web|url=http://www.shieldmedia.ca/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=1&twindow=&mad=&sdetail=828&wpage=1&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=1944&hn=shieldmedia&he=.ca |title=NHL legend lives on in Hastings |last1=Freeman |first1=Bill |date=16 February 2007 |publisher=The Shield Newspapers |access-date=5 April 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012114657/http://www.shieldmedia.ca/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=1&twindow=&mad=&sdetail=828&wpage=1&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=1944&hn=shieldmedia&he=.ca |archive-date=October 12, 2007 }}</ref>  The [[Right wing (ice hockey)|right wing]] on the powerful "[[List of ice hockey line nicknames|Dynamite Line]]"—one of the first forward combinations to receive a nickname in hockey history—along with linemates [[Cooney Weiland]] and [[Dutch Gainor]], he contributed to the breaking of several scoring records in the 1930s. Towards the end of his career, he was named player-coach of the Bruins, and held the coaching position after his retirement as a player.