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((Short description|Canadian journalist and sportsperson (1879–1936)))
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((Infobox person
| name         = Lou Marsh
| image        = Lou Marsh.jpg
| alt          = 
| birth_date   = ((Birth date|1879|2|17))
| birth_place  = [[Campbellford]], Ontario, Canada
| death_date   = ((Death date and age|1936|3|4|1879|2|17))
| death_place  = [[Toronto]], Ontario Canada
| burial_place = [[Park Lawn Cemetery]]
| occupation   = Journalist and referee
| known_for    = ''[[Toronto Star]]'' sports editor
| honours      = [[Lou Marsh Trophy]]
))

'''Lewis Edwin Marsh''' (February 17, 1879 – March 4, 1936) was a Canadian athlete and referee, and one of the pioneers of [[sports journalism]] in Canada, working at the ''[[Toronto Star]]'' for 43 years.

==Early life and athletics==
Marsh was born in [[Campbellford]], Ontario, and lived there until the age of nine, when he moved with his family to [[Toronto]], Ontario. 

[[File:Lou Marsh 1890s.jpg|thumb|upright|left|Marsh in the 1890s]]

As an athlete, Marsh's first love was sailing, and through his life he played a wide variety of sports. At the age of 21 he became interested in rugby, and played with some of the top teams in Toronto, including the [[Toronto Argonauts]].

Marsh was said((by who|date=August 2019)) to be a top-notch sprinter, once defeating Canadian and Olympic champion [[Robert Kerr (athlete)|Robert Kerr]] in a 120-yard hurdle race. He became a supporter of [[Tom Longboat]] and accompanied him to the [[1908 Summer Olympics]] in [[London]].

In May 1914, Marsh was aboard the first passenger airplane flight out of Toronto, taking off from  Toronto and flying to [[Hamilton, Ontario]] and back. Around this time, he is said((by who|date=August 2019)) to have swum across the [[Niagara River]] from [[Lewiston, New York]] to [[Queenston, Ontario]].

During [[World War I]], Marsh was an officer in the [[Canadian Expeditionary Force]], enlisting with the [[180th (Sportsmen) Battalion, CEF]] in 1916. He briefly served in France before being sent back to Canada after being diagnosed with heart problems. He rose to the rank of major while serving in the military.

==Sports referee==
[[File:Lou Marsh in uniform of NHL referee2.jpg|thumb|upright|Marsh wearing an NHL referee uniform]]

Marsh was one of the top boxing and hockey referees of his era. He also worked as a referee in [[professional wrestling]]. During a match in Toronto in 1921, Marsh surprised the wrestlers after 30 minutes of showmanship by telling them that it was time to stop their exhibition and wrestle a real contest. He brought a similar attitude to his work as a boxing referee where, over the course of thousands of bouts, Marsh wasn't reluctant to demand action from the fighters. He was a referee in the [[National Hockey League]], and saw action in [[Stanley Cup]] playoff games.

While in his 40s he was advised by doctors to stop working as a referee. Marsh's final appearance in the NHL was in the 1929 playoffs. In the late 1920s, he developed an interest in racing small outboard [[Hydroplane (boat)|hydroplane]]s, which he called sea fleas. One of the most successful sea flea racers in Toronto was future [[Toronto Maple Leafs]] owner [[Harold Ballard]].

When professional wrestling started coming to Toronto on a weekly basis in 1929, Marsh told readers right from the start that the matches were exhibitions and not real contests. In 1935, he coined the term ''[[Sports entertainment|sportive entertainment]]'' to describe professional wrestling—a term that in a slightly modified form would come to prominence fifty years later. One of his closest friends was Toronto wrestling and boxing promoter [[Maple Leaf Wrestling|Jack Corcoran]].

==Journalism career==
At 14, in the first year after the launch of the ''Toronto Star'', Marsh walked into the newspaper's office responding to a want ad and was hired as a copyboy. He rose to junior reporter, reporter, columnist (''With Pick and Shovel'' was the name of his long-running column), assistant sports editor under [[W. A. Hewitt]], and finally, in 1931, sports editor.

In 1931, he succeeded Hewitt as the ''Star'''s sports editor after Hewitt accepted a job as the first attractions manager of the new [[Maple Leaf Gardens]]. Marsh became an avid fisherman and hunter in his 50s, and made a return to officiating as a hockey referee at the [[1932 Winter Olympics]] in [[Lake Placid, New York]].

==Later life and legacy==
Marsh died unexpectedly at the age of 57 in 1936. The following day, the ''Toronto Star'' devoted 11 pages to coverage of his life and accomplishments, starting with a banner headline on page one. Before the end of the year, the [[Lou Marsh Trophy]] was created and named in his honour. It has been presented to Canada's top athlete each year since until 2021. In 2022, it was announced that the Lou Marsh Trophy would be renamed because of some of the racist language used in Marsh's writing.<ref>((cite web |title=Lou Marsh Trophy to be renamed over concerns about racist language in his work |url=https://www.cbc.ca/sports/lou-marsh-trophy-name-change-1.6596137 |website=[[CBC News]] |date=2022-09-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221202112123/https://www.cbc.ca/sports/lou-marsh-trophy-name-change-1.6596137 |archive-date=2022-12-02 |url-status=live))</ref> 

He is buried at [[Park Lawn Cemetery]] in Toronto.<ref>[https://www.toronto.com/community-story/7340217-history-corner-early-owner-tried-to-turn-park-lawn-cemetery-into-a-subdivision/ Toronto.com]</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*((Commonscat-inline|Lou Marsh))
*[http://data2.archives.ca/cef/gpc010/495597a.gif Marsh's World War I officer's declaration paper]

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[[Category:Canadian Expeditionary Force officers]]
[[Category:Canadian ice hockey officials]]
[[Category:Canadian sportswriters]]
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[[Category:People from Northumberland County, Ontario]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Ontario]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Toronto]]
[[Category:Toronto Argonauts players]]
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