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Moe Herscovitch

Boxer (1897-1969)

Born
27 October 1897, Montreal
Died
22 July 1969, Montreal
Citizenship
Canada
Sport
boxing
Discipline
middleweight
Occupation
boxer
Height
170 cm (5 ft 7 in)

Moe 'Montgomery' Hart Herscovitch (27 October 1897 – 22 July 1969) who after taking up boxing during his WWI Canadian Army service with considerable success, won a bronze medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics for Canada in Antwerp as a Middleweight. Hersovitch began his athletic career in 1913 as a prominent rugby player at fullback or flying wing for the Montreal Football Club, of the Inter-Provincial Rugby Union. After the Olympics, around 1921, he began in earnest a successful, and lucrative but relatively brief professional boxing career as a middleweight, which ended around 1924. He would later coach boxing and rugby and serve as an insurance broker beginning around 1924, later establishing his own company, Herscovitch and Sons in Montreal.

Competitions

CompetitionYearResult
boxing at the 1920 Summer Olympics – middleweight

External links

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Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.

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