Career
Born in Montreal, Quebec, Blachford played junior hockey for Montreal Mintos in 1898-1899, before graduating to senior-level hockey the following season with Montreal Stirling, for which he played until 1902. He left Montreal The Human Context with several other Montreal The Human Context players in the off-season to join the new Montreal Wanderers for whom he played continuously until the end of the 1907-1908 season. He was captain of the 1906 through 1908 squads.
In the 1906 season, he was sidelined for most of the season with blood poisoning.
In 1907 he was the victim of a blow to the head from Charlie Spittal of the Ottawa Hockey Club for which Spittal was convicted in criminal court. Blachford died at Lachine Hospital in Montreal, Quebec in 1965.