JIM "TUB" BARRETT

James "Tubby" Barrett was one of the slickest stick handlers in Collingwood's long hockey history and one of the games most potent scorers.

Small of stature but as tough as a pine knot, the "Tub" made monkeys out of the opposing defensemen thirty years ago when the famed Collingwood Greenshirts won four consecutive O.H.A. Junior "C" titles and the Intermediate Shipbuilders won two back to back titles in 1951 and 1952.
In his hey day he worked on a super forward line with Allan Morrill and the late Frankie Dance. The scoring records of this remarkable junior hockey trio will probably stand forever.
One night I saw this line rack up 37 scoring points in a 20-3 win over Barrie. Barrett collected five goals and nine assists, Morrill had six goals and six assists and Dance chalked up three goals and seven assists.

During the four-year reign of the Greenshirts in O.H.A. Junior "C" company, Tub scored 174 goals, 139 assists for a total of 313 points in 113 games. The line of Barrett-Morrill and Dance scored 444 goals during that four-year span.

At the same time, Barrett and Morrill, took part in the Intermediate "A" play-offs in 1952 and 1953, adding two more O.H.A. Medals to their collections. They played no small part in the winning of the two Intermediate titles for Eddie Bush. Tub Barrett and Allan Morrill picked up six O.H.A. championship medals in four years-the record still stands.

Barrett started his hockey career with the Collingwood Midgets in 1945 and was a member of the star studded Collingwood Clubs, winners of the Ontario Juvenile title in 1949. He tool a fling in the Scottish League in 1954 but came home before the end of the schedule and finished that season with Bracebridge.