# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/taffy-abel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:14:47.620Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/taffy-abel"
name: "Taffy Abel"
slug: "taffy-abel"
description: "Clarence John \"Taffy\" Abel was an American professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League with the New York Rangers and Chicago Black Hawks between 1926 and 1934. Born in 1900 in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, United States, as a Native American Ojibwe, he was forced to hide his Native American ancestry until 1939. He was a silver medalist in ice hockey at the 1924 Winter Olympics and the U.S. flagbearer for those games, making him the first Native American to play, and to win a medal, in the Winter Olympics. He was a member of two Stanley Cup championship teams. On November 16, 1926, he became the first United States–born Native American player to become an NHL regular, with the New York Rangers. He is a member of the United States Hockey Hall of Fame."
tagline: "Ice hockey player from the United States (1900-1964)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Taffy_Abel%2C_1928_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1900-05-28"
deathDate: "1964-08-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.47
  momentum:             9.58762886597938
  historical:           15.55324133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "塔菲·埃布尔"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "تافي أبيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "تافى ابيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Abel"
    title: "Clarence Abel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Abel"
    title: "Clarence Abel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taffy_Abel"
    title: "Taffy Abel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taffy_Abel"
    title: "Taffy Abel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%81%DB%8C_%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%84"
    title: "تافی هابیل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Abel"
    title: "Clarence Abel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Abel"
    title: "Clarence Abel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taffy_Abel"
    title: "Taffy Abel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Abel"
    title: "Clarence Abel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Abel"
    title: "Clarence Abel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_John_Abel"
    title: "Clarence John Abel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taffy_Abel"
    title: "Taffy Abel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%B9%D0%B1%D0%BB%2C_%D0%A2%D1%8D%D1%84%D1%84%D0%B8"
    title: "Эйбл, Тэффи"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taffy_Abel"
    title: "Taffy Abel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Abel"
    title: "Clarence Abel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taffy_Abel"
    title: "Taffy Abel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2118953"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump