Editing Red Dutton (section)

==Early life==
Dutton was born in [[Russell, Manitoba]] on July 23, 1897.<ref name="mhhof"/><ref>{{cite news |newspaper=Calgary Herald |date=June 15, 1986 |title=Dutton glances back over travelled roads |page=17 |last=Keyser |first=Tom |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=g3dkAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Ln8NAAAAIBAJ&dq=red-dutton&pg=5615%2C2729543 |access-date=July 4, 2012}}</ref><!--<ref name="BlazeMag">{{cite journal |last=Shea |first=Kevin |title=Mervyn "Red" Dutton: Calgary's early hockey hero |journal=Blaze Magazine |publisher=Calgary Flames Hockey Club |date=2004 |page=23}}</ref>--> His father, Bill, was a successful contractor who helped build Canada's transcontinental railway system,<ref name="MGBillDutton">{{cite news |last=De Geer |first=Vern |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XYMtAAAAIBAJ&sjid=cZkFAAAAIBAJ&pg=7287,2214942 |title=Good Morning |work=Montreal Gazette |date=December 12, 1953 |access-date=November 27, 2010 |page=12}}</ref> and the younger Dutton often helped his father at his work when he was a boy.<ref name="OCStampede">{{cite news |last=O'Brien |first=Andy |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=_9IxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=b-QFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3710%2C2504944 |title=Calgary's incomparable Stampede gets a boss man to match |work=Ottawa Citizen |pages=2–3, 28}}</ref> He had at least two elder brothers,<ref name="RLPColeman">{{cite news |last=Coleman |first=Jim |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FpNVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GEANAAAAIBAJ&pg=3412,1543299 |title=Jim Coleman's column for July 23 |work=Regina Leader-Post |date=July 23, 1982 |access-date=November 27, 2010 |page=A12}}</ref> and a sister.<ref name="HeraldObit">{{cite news |last=Slade |first=Daryl |title=Rugged Hall of Famer never attained his goal of winning Stanley Cup |work=Calgary Herald |date=March 16, 1987 |page=E1}}</ref>

His given name was Norman Alexander Dutton, but his birth names were quickly ignored.  A family friend of the Duttons refused to call him Norman as the name had a negative connotation for her, so she instead called him "Mervyn", a name that stuck.<ref name="CHStampede1960">{{cite news |title=Stampede honor highlights career |work=Calgary Herald |date=July 11, 1960 |pages=19, 25}}</ref> His friends called him "Red" after the colour of his hair, and to most, he was known as Mervyn "Red" Dutton.<ref name="PodnieksPlayers">{{cite book |last=Podnieks |first=Andrew |title=Players: The ultimate A–Z guide of everyone who has ever played in the NHL |publisher=Doubleday Canada |year=2003 |location=Toronto |isbn=0-385-25999-9 |pages=223–224}}</ref>

Dutton attended school at [[St. John's College, University of Manitoba|St. John's College]] in [[Winnipeg]].<ref name="LOHBio">{{cite web |url=http://www.legendsofhockey.net/LegendsOfHockey/jsp/LegendsMember.jsp?mem=p195805&type=Player&page=bio&list=ByName#photo |title=Red Dutton biography |publisher=Hockey Hall of Fame |access-date=November 26, 2010}}</ref> He left school in 1915 to volunteer with the [[Canadian Expeditionary Force]] (CEF) in [[World War I]] and served with the [[Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry]].<ref name="MGBillDutton" /> He lied about his birth date on his CEF enlistment papers as he was not yet 18, and served for four years.<ref name="RLPColeman" />  Dutton fought in the [[Battle of Vimy Ridge]] in 1917 where he suffered a [[shrapnel shell|shrapnel]] wound to his leg serious enough that doctors pressed for amputation.<ref name="BlazeMag">{{cite journal |last=Shea |first=Kevin |title=Mervyn "Red" Dutton: Calgary's early hockey hero |journal=Blaze Magazine |publisher=Calgary Flames Hockey Club |date=2004 |page=23}}</ref>  Dutton refused and spent the following 18 months working to recover full use of his leg.  He played hockey almost constantly to regain strength, at one point playing in seven different Winnipeg leagues at the same time.<ref name="PodnieksPlayers" />

Following the war, Dutton sought to build his own contracting business.  However, an [[depression (economics)|economic depression]] in 1920 forced its closure. He then worked in a packing plant in Winnipeg that also ceased operations. Penniless, with only his pride preventing him from asking his father for help, he was met by the owner of a hockey team in [[Calgary]] who had sought him out. Dutton was offered $2,500 to play in the Alberta city.<ref name="OCStampede" />