Moe Herscovitch

Rugby division champions After he returned home from the War in the summer of 1919, he continued to play with the reorganized Montreal Rugby Team, known as the Winged Wheelers which won the division championships that year, but he also continued to box. When Montreal won the big four title in 1919, Moe made the vast majority of goals the club scored that season. According to one source, the team members played as amateurs, at least for most of his time with the team. Moe played for the Montreal Football Club (Rugby) in 1913, 1914, and the reorganized Winged Wheelers team in 1919, and 1920.

1920 Antwerp Bronze medal Showing his boxing skills prior to the Olympics, on April 24, 1920, Herscovich knocked out Percy Platt in the third round at the Toronto Athletic Club in the Dominion Tournament to take the Canadian 158-pound (Middleweight) division championship, though the claim was not widely recognized.

He was selected for Canada's 1920 Olympic boxing team and assigned to its middleweight division. At Antwerp that August, he won a bronze medal, after knocking out Norwegian Hjalmar Stromme.

He married Celia Goldblatt, of Russian Jewish heritage, at Temple Beth Jhuda in Montreal around December 1921. Celia died in December of 1949, and had been active in Montreal's Adath Israel Synagogue and Hadassah, a woman's auxiliary organization. After her death in December 1949, Montreal's Cancer Research Society Unit 53 was established in her name.

Professional boxing career

Herscovitch began boxing professionally in earnest in early 1921, and defeated Olympic gold medalist Bert Schneider on 18 May 1921. He spent the next few years fighting in Canada and New York City, putting together an inconsistent record and boxing around 24 bouts. Around 1921-22, he claimed the Canadian Welterweight Championship Title, particularly during his First Round knockout win against Harlem Jimmy Kelly in New York on February 22, 1922. He coached football at Montreal High Montefiore, Knights of Columbus, and the Rockland Club, the intermediate champs in 1937. In 1940, he served as President of the Rockland Football (Rugby) Club.

He continued to be actively involved in sports and his community, and served as president of the Quebec Rugby Union. Outside of sports, he worked as an insurance broker for the remainder of his life.

Honors Herscovitch was honored as a member of the Canadian Amateur Hall of Fame, and was inducted into the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame in 1956.