Career
Unlike most British hockey players of the era, Erhardt did not grow up in Canada. Rather, he learned the game of hockey while attending school in Germany and Switzerland as a boy. Erhardt was a passionate defenseman, sometimes playing in excess of 40 minutes each game.
An excellent athlete, Erhardt also excelled at tennis, skiing and water-skiing.
(He founded the British Water Ski Federation)
The British defeated the prohibitive favourites, the Canadians, in capturing Great Britain"s first and only gold medal in ice hockey. After his Olympic success, Erhardt retired from hockey.
He wrote a book in 1937 titled Ice Hockey, became a referee, and joined the Council of the British Ice Hockey Association, of which he became a lifetime Vice-President. Erhardt was elected to the British Ice Hockey Hall of Fame in 1950, and was posthumously elected to the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame in 1998.
In 2012 The United Kingdom Elite Ice Hockey League (EIHL) named one of its two newly introduced Conferences after him.