Jack Couch

Jack Couch was born in Clinton, Ontario and at age seven moved to Kitchener with his parents. He received his education at Victoria School and Kitchener Collegiate and later entered the electrical field.

He became interested in athletics at an early age and at fifteen was playing senior baseball. Later, he managed and coached championship teams in Kitchener and Waterloo.

He was keenly interested in junior baseball and organized the Kitchener Dodgers, a junior team, in 1954. The team made the Inter-County finals ten times, winning seven titles. The Dodgers also won the Ontario honours in 1956.

Couch’s playing days ended in 1947, two years after returning from service in the Navy. He not only played baseball but over a period of fourteen years played defence on Junior, Intermediate and Senior Hockey Teams.

In 1967 he was the recipient of the first K-W Annual Sports Celebrity Citation Award and retired from active sports participation in 1969.