Paul Witmer "Red" Loudon - Born in 1892 - Died December 1, 1953 in Hennepin County, Minnesota was an American ice Hockey executive, manager and president.

Loudon, as owner, president, and director of the Minneapolis Millers Hockey Team was a founding member of the American Hockey Association / AHA in 1926.

Vice-President of the American Hockey Association / AHA 1928.

President of the Central Hockey League / CHL from 1926 to 1935

President of the Minneapolis Hockey Association.

President of the American Hockey Association / AHA in 1944, which was renamed the United States Hockey League / USHL, and he became the 1st President of the USHL.

The USHL championship trophy was named the Paul W. Loudon Trophy in his honor.

After his death in December 1953, the newspaper Star Tribune said the following:

Paul (Red) Loudon, who died Tuesday, was an all-around athlete and an all-around fan. His skills were many in his college days at Dartmouth. His interests were even more varied when he pursued sports as a coach, a fan and a sponsor. This city did not have a more enlightened, more enthusiastic, more stable or more farsighted sportsman. Without giving his sports interest a greater prominence than it should have in the life of a successful business man, Red made countless valuable contributions to college and professional sports. The life of professional Hockey in this area was prolonged for years because of his energy and intelligent direction ... His name belongs among the very elite in any gallery of sports heroes at Dartmouth college or in the city of Minneapolis

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Loudon was a star athlete at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, playing in football, baseball, and basketball, but not ice Hockey. He later coached baseball and football.