Education
He studied at Victor High School and Disabled American Veterans College, Jallandhar.
He studied at Victor High School and Disabled American Veterans College, Jallandhar.
He is known to be one of the finest Hockey players India has ever produced. He was a Half Back and had the adaptability to play from Left Inside, Right Inside, Center Forward and Center Half positions as well. He was born on the 4th of August 1928 at Sansarpur, a small village near Jallandhar Cantonment of Punjab.
Although Udham had a short stature at just 5 feet 6 inches and weighed only 58 kg, it never affected his game.
He was named the Captain of his College Hockey team in 1947, and was recruited by the Punjab Police the same year, which had one of the best Hockey teams in the nation at that time. Foreign a period of 18 years he played for Punjab Police, and led the team a couple of times during the tenure.
Also, Udham Singh was named the Captain of the State Hockey team of Punjab in 1954. Udham Singh would have made his Olympics debut right in the London Olympics 1948, but due to a finger injury he missed the chance.
He played in a Hockey Series against Afghanistan in 1949, contributing to India’s victory at the Series.
Udham also played in the Rome Olympics 1960 and his 4th and last Tokyo Olympics 1964. At Rome, Pakistan defeated India in the Finals, while the Indian team snatched its Gold Medal back from Pakistan in Tokyo defeating the opponents by 1-0. Udham Singh delivered his best performance at Tokyo Asian Games 1958 but still couldn’t get India the Gold as Pakistan beat India on the basis of better goal average.
He was named the Captain of the Indian Hockey Federation team that went to a Warsaw tour in 1955 and to East Africa in 1959.
Udham also led the Indian squad to World Cup Hockey held at Lyons, France. Udham Singh also served as the Coach of the Indian Hockey team and successfully got the team a bronze Medal at Mexico Olympics 1968 and silver medal at Bangkok Asian Games 1970.
After his retirement for active Hockey, he has been engaged in training younger boys.