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{{short description|Canadian ice hockey player}}
{{Infobox ice hockey player
| name = Fred Chittick
| halloffame =
| image = Fred Chittick.jpg
| image_size = 200px
| alt =
| caption = Photo from April 19, 1905 issue of<br> [[Ottawa Journal]]
| birth_date = {{birth date|1868|4|5}}
| birth_place = [[Ottawa|Ottawa, Ontario]], Canada
| death_date = {{death date and age|1917|8|24|1868|4|5}}
| death_place = Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
| height_ft =
| height_in =
| weight_lb =
| position = [[Goaltender (ice hockey)|Goaltender]]
| shoots =
| played_for = [[Ottawa Senators (original)|Ottawa Hockey Club]]
| career_start = 1894
| career_end = 1901
}}
'''Frederick Charles Chittick''' (April 5, 1868 – August 24, 1917<ref>[https://sv.findagrave.com/memorial/93297346/frederick-charles-chittick Frederick Charles "Fred" Chittick (1868–1917)] Find A Grave. Retrieved 2020-10-20.</ref>) was a [[Canadians|Canadian]] [[ice hockey]] [[goaltender]] for the [[Ottawa Senators (original)|Ottawa Hockey Club]] from 1894 until 1901. He was also a track and field athlete and a rugby football player.<ref name="kitchen-93">Kitchen, p. 93</ref>

==Playing career==
Born in [[Ottawa]], [[Ontario]], Canada, Chittick first joined the Ottawa Hockey Club of the [[Amateur Hockey Association of Canada]] (AHAC) for the [[1895 AHAC season|1895]] season, taking over from [[Albert Morel]] as the starting goaltender. He played seven seasons for Ottawa, before retiring from play after the [[1901 CAHL season|1901]] season, the season in which Ottawa won the [[Canadian Amateur Hockey League]] (successor from AHAC) championship. He would stay in the game as a referee.
[[File:Ottawa HC 1901 champions pic.jpg|thumb|left|285px|Fred Chittick, at far left in the second row from the bottom, with the [[Ottawa Hockey Club]] in 1901.]]
In 1899, Chittick quit the Ottawas over a series of events. On January 21, Chittick was refereeing a game between [[Quebec Hockey Club]] and [[Montreal Hockey Club]] when the Montreal team quit the game, incensed at the rough play of Quebec and the fact that Chittick was allowing the rough play. After the game, allegations were made by the Montreal players that Chittick was drunk. Chittick was mad enough to threaten the Montreal players with defamation lawsuits. A month later, on February 11 in Montreal, Chittick gave up 16 goals, the worst showing by a senior goaltender to that date. Chittick was replaced for the next game and he quit in anger. He later spoke to the press about the club paying its players to pay, causing a scandal.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/23983499/the-ottawa-citizen/ "Professionalism in the hockey game"] ''Ottawa Citizen''. Feb. 20, 1899 (pg. 6).</ref> He would not be the club's regular goaltender again, although he did play a game for the club as a replacement in 1900.<ref>Kitchen, pp. 93–95</ref>

Chittick was employed as an accountant in the Canadian Department of Agriculture at the annual salary of $950 in the 1890s.<ref name="kitchen-93"/> He died at his Ottawa home in 1917.<ref>"FRED CHITTICK, NOTED OTTAWA ATHLETE, 'DIES", ''Winnipeg Free Press'', Saturday, August 25, 1917, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada</ref>

===Career statistics===
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|- bgcolor="#e0e0e0"
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!colspan="8" | Regular season
! rowspan="99" bgcolor="#ffffff" |  
!colspan="8" | Playoffs
|- bgcolor="#e0e0e0"
! Season
! Team
! League
! GPI
! W
! L
! T
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! GPI
! W
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! MIN
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|- ALIGN="center"
| [[1895 AHAC season|1895]] || Ottawa HC || AHAC
|| 6 || 3 || 3 || 0 || 360 || 18 || 1 || 3.0
||   ||   ||   ||  ||   ||   ||   ||  
|- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| [[1896 AHAC season|1896]] || Ottawa HC || AHAC
|| 8 || 6 || 2 || 0 || 480 || 16 || 1 || 2.0
||   ||   ||   ||  ||   ||   ||   ||  
|- ALIGN="center"
| [[1897 AHAC season|1897]] || Ottawa HC || AHAC
|| 8 || 5 || 3 || 0 || 480 || 18 || 1 || 2.3
||   ||   ||   ||  ||   ||   ||   ||  
|- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| [[1898 AHAC season|1898]] || Ottawa HC || AHAC
|| 4 || 1 || 3 || 0 || 240 || 21 || 0 || 5.0
||   ||   ||   ||  ||   ||   ||   ||  
|- ALIGN="center"
| [[1899 CAHL season|1899]] || Ottawa HC || CAHL
|| 5 || 2 || 3 || 0 || 300 || 32 || 0 || 6.4
||   ||   ||   ||  ||   ||   ||   ||  
|- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| [[1901 CAHL season|1900]] || Ottawa HC || CAHL
|| 1 || 1 || 0 || 0 || 80|| 0 || 1 || 0.0
||   ||   ||   ||  ||   ||   ||   ||  
|-
|}

==References==
===Notes===
{{reflist}}
===Bibliography===
* {{cite book |title=The Trail of the Stanley Cup, vol. 1 1893-1926 inc. |last=Coleman |first=Charles |year=1966}}
* {{cite book |last=Kitchen |first=Bill |title=Win, Tie or Wrangle: The Inside Story of the Old Ottawa Senators 1883–1935 |year=2008 |publisher=Penumbra Press |location=Manotick, Ontario |isbn=978-1-897323-46-5}}

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{{succession box | before = [[Chauncy Kirby]] | title = [[Ottawa Senators (original)#Team captains|Ottawa Senators captain <br />(Original Era)]] | years = 1896–1897 | after = [[Harvey Pulford]]}}

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[[Category:1868 births]]
[[Category:1917 deaths]]
[[Category:Canadian ice hockey goaltenders]]
[[Category:Ice hockey people from Ottawa]]
[[Category:Ottawa Senators (original) players]]
[[Category:20th-century Canadian sportsmen]]

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