Tuck went to Dartmouth, playing for three years, captaining the team as a senior, and graduating in 1915. After his college days he fought with the American Air Service in France in WWI and continued to play amateur hockey, mostly in Massachusetts. When he made the Olympic team he was a member of the Boston AA. Tuck went back to Dartmouth to coach for 3 years between 1921 and 1924, was pretty succesfull and had this record: 26 - 11 - 3.
Tuck made his living as the manager of an ice cream company.