“Porky” Young will not only be remembered as one of the most rugged and effective defensive players in Collingwood’s hockey history, but he earns a special niche in the Sports Hall of Fame as a developer of young players in the minor hockey system.

Apart from his rearguard work as a member of the Collingwood Intermediate Shipbuilders, he will long be remembered for his coaching with the famed Collingwood Cubs.

“Porky” took over the Collingwood Juveniles in 1948 and the following year brought this team to the Ontario title without losing a game. The Cubs had reached the finals against Port  Colborne on the previous year after a five-game series that ended
with a sudden-death game in Midland. The Port Colborne star was none other than
Bronco Horvarth, now a member ofCanada’s Hockey Hall of Fame.

“Porky” started out in the junior town league at the old park arena and quickly graduated to the OHA juniors in the early thirties.

When he jumped to Intermediate, he teamed up with the legendary “Rabbi” Fryer and later with another Hall of Famer, the late Lawrence “Dutch” Cain.  He played his best hockey against Owen  Sound and his rugged-body-checking style brought the wrath of Owen Sound fans.  His brilliant rushing style played a large part in the 1939 Intermediate “A” title, won by the Shipbuilders, under the coaching of the late Bern Brophy.

An active and energetic member of the new arena committee, he was instrumental in the bylaw vote which gave Collingwood the Eddie Bush Memorial Arena on Collingwood’s main street.  “Porky” and the late Fred Brock (also a Collingwood Hall of Famer) went door to door during the bylaw campaign in 1947.

In 1949, he was offered the coaching job for the Brampton Juniors but turned it down as he was about to take over a business in Dundalk.

He was a solid softball player in the Blue Mountain League and once won the batting championship and the Most Valuable Player award.

It should be pointed out that the championship juvenile team, built and coached by Young in the late forties, converted to the Junior “C” ranks as a team and won four straight championships.

Lloyd “Porky” Young was inducted into the Collingwood Sports Hall of Fame, in 1986.