Joe Nolan(1929-1986)
- Actor
"Indian" Joe Nolan was a minor-league hockey player in the Eastern
Hockey League with the Clinton Comets and later with the Johnstown
Jets. The Jets were the inspiration for the 1977 movie "Slap Shot"
starring Paul Newman where Joe appears as "Clarence 'Screaming Buffalo'
Swamptown," the head-dress wearing oldtimer brought in to try and help
the Bulldogs defeat the Chiefs in the final game. Indian Joe retired
from the EHL and returned to Clinton, New York where he died in the
early 1990s.
