Career
Born in Brockville, Ontario, he started out as a professional with the Pittsburgh Lyceum and Pittsburgh Athletic Club in 1907 before returning to Canada with the Toronto Pros in 1908. He played with the Senators from 1909 until 1912. In 1913, he moved out west to play in the Pacific Coast Hockey Association until 1920 for the Victoria Aristocrats.
Kerr started his career in his hometown of Brockville, Ontario, playing junior and intermediate amateur hockey for Brockville of the Ontario Hockey Association.
He turned professional in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1907-1908. Kerr started 1908-1909 with Pittsburgh, but left after seven games to join the Toronto team of the Ontario Professional Hockey League.
After three games in Toronto, Kerr jumped to the Ottawa Senators and became a star. Ottawa was rebuilding after the "Silver Seven" years and was seeking a player on left wing.
Executive Weldy Bate had read that Kerr had scored five goals in a game for Toronto.
Bate sent coach Pete Green who confirmed Kerr"s ability and an offer was made to Kerr, who then moved to Ottawa. He played with future Hall of Famers Marty Walsh and Billy Gilmour. In 1910, Kerr suffered a serious skate cut to his right eye, at first losing his sight, necessitating an eye operation, limiting his play to five games.
He would recover to play in the 1910-1911 season.
During the 1910-1911 season, he along with Walsh and Ridpath, scored in twelve consecutive games, including five in one game and had 32 goals in 16 games to finish behind Walsh in NHA scoring. Kerr retired after the 1911-1912 season but Lester Patrick lured him to Victoria, British Columbia of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association in 1913-1914.
He played three seasons with Victoria Aristocrats and moved with the club to Spokane for the 1916-1917 season when the Victoria arena was taken over for wartime activities. Kerr served during World War I from 1917-1919, but returned to ice hockey to play another season with Victoria, retiring in 1920.
