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1897 AHAC Season
The 1897 Amateur Hockey Association of Canada season was the eleventh season of play of the ice hockey league. Each team played 8 games, and Montreal Victorias were again first with a 7–1 record, retaining the Stanley Cup. The club won the Stanley Cup back from the Winnipeg Victorias prior to the season. This was their third-straight league championship. League business Executive * J.A. Findlay, Montreal (President) * J. H. Dunbar, Quebec (1st. Vice-Pres.) * Weldy Young, Ottawa (2nd. Vice-Pres.) At the annual meeting on December 12, 1896, the secretary reported that the association had lost all of its records in a fire, except for its '' minutes''. Rule Changes * No more than a 15-minute delay during a game * No raising the stick above the shoulder except for 'lifting.' * Executives were given the power to suspend club or player for foul play. * Protests of games had to be made within two days. Season Clare McKerrow of Montreal HC set a new record with six goal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amateur Hockey Association Of Canada
The Amateur Hockey Association of Canada (AHAC) was an amateur men's ice hockey league founded on 8 December 1886, in existence until 1898. It was the second ice hockey league organized in Canada, after one in Kingston, Ontario started in 1883. It was organized to provide a longer season to determine the Canadian champion. Prior to its founding, the Canadian championship was determined in a tournament in Montreal. It is the first championship ice hockey league. The 1893 champion of the league, Montreal Hockey Club was the first winner of the newly introduced Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup (later known as the Stanley Cup). Montreal was awarded the Cup as the champions of the AHAC since the AHAC was considered the top league of Canada. History Beginnings A meeting was called, for those in favour of the formation of a Dominion hockey association, for the evening of 8 December 1886. Mr J.G. Monk of the Victoria Hockey Club was asked to send a written invitation to Ottawa Hock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernie McLea
Ernest Hope "Ernie" McLea (February 5, 1876 – June 17, 1931) was a Canadian ice hockey player. McLea played in the 1890s for the Montreal Victorias and was a member of four Stanley Cup-winning teams. He scored the first hat trick in Stanley Cup play, and scored the Stanley Cup-winning goal in a challenge game in 1896. Personal life McLea was born in Montreal, Quebec. He was the fifth and final child of John Brine McLea and Phoebe Elizabeth (Currie) McLea, who were both born in Newfoundland and moved to Quebec in the 1860s, then to Montreal in the 1870s. As a youth, McLea attended the Bishop's College School boarding school in Lennoxville, where he met future Victorias team-mates Hartland MacDougall and Robert MacDougall (not related). He followed this with studies at McGill University where he played rugby football and cricket. Ernest McLea died on June 17, 1931 in his apartment on McGill College Avenue in Montreal due to a self-inflicted gunshot. McLea left a note. Playing ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Armytage
John Crichton "Jack" Green-Armytage (February 11, 1872 – August 7, 1943) was a Canadian ice hockey rover. Born in Fergus, Ontario, Canada, he is best remembered as the man who first organized a hockey club in the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Awards and achievements *Stanley Cup Championships – 1896 nhl.com with the *"Honoured Member" of the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame The Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame and Museum is a hall of fame and museum for ice h ...
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Charles Johnstone
Charles Johnstone (–1800) was an Irish novelist. Prevented by deafness from practising at the Irish Bar, he went to India, where he was proprietor of a newspaper. He wrote one successful book, ''Chrysal, or the Adventures of a Guinea'', a somewhat sombre satire. Life Born at Carrigogunnell, County Limerick about 1719, he was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, but is not known to have taken a degree. He was called to the bar, but extreme deafness prevented his practice except as a chamber lawyer, where he did not succeed. He began to write as a living. In May 1782, Johnstone sailed for India, with a dangerous shipwreck on the voyage. He found employment in writing for the Bengal newspaper press, under the signature of "Oneiropolos". He became in time joint proprietor of a journal, and prospered. He died at Calcutta about 1800. Works Johnstone's major work, entitled ''Chrysal, or the Adventures of a Guinea'', and frequently reprinted, appeared in 4 vols., London, 1760–6 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Grant
Michael Grant (November 27, 1873 – August 20, 1955) was a Canadian ice hockey player. He played nine seasons of senior amateur hockey between 1894 and 1902 for the Montreal Victorias and Montreal Shamrocks. Grant was a member of the Victorias squad that won or retained possession of the Stanley Cup five times between 1895 and 1899 during the trophy's challenge era. Grant played cover-point and was known for his speed and skating ability. He is regarded as one of the first defenceman to rush forward and with the puck. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1950. Playing career A gifted and fast skater, Grant won speed skating championships at three different age groups when he was 11 years old. He also played amateur lacrosse while he grew up in Montreal, Quebec. His skills transferred to the hockey rink where Grant played cover point (defence). He is regarded as one of the first rushing defencemen in hockey history; Grant used his skating ability to generate offen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rod Flett
Roderick McLeod Flett (January 26, 1873 – June 30, 1927) was a Canadian Métis ice hockey player. He was a member of the three-time Stanley Cup Champion Winnipeg Victorias. He played the point position, now known as left defence. His younger brother Magnus Flett was also a hockey player on the Winnipeg Victorias team. Rod Flett was born in Kildonan, Manitoba in 1873 and died while golfing at the St. Charles Country Club in Winnipeg in 1927. Awards and achievements * Stanley Cup Championships (1896, & 1901, 1902) *“Honoured Member” of the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame The Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame and Museum is a hall of fame and museum for ice hockey in Manitoba, located on the main level of the Canada Life Centre in downtown Winnipeg. It was established in 1985, when the first honoured members were named ... ReferencesRod Flett's biographya [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Henderson (ice Hockey)
Harold Henderson may refer to: * Harold Henderson (British politician) (1875–1922), British Conservative politician *Harold Gould Henderson, American Japanologist *Harold Lloyd Henderson, Canadian Presbyterian minister and politician * Harold Paulk Henderson, American political scientist *Harold Henderson (ice hockey) in 1897 AHAC season *Harold Henderson, the author of ''Let's Kill Dick and Jane'', a book critical of the Dick and Jane ''Dick and Jane'' are the two main characters created by Zerna Sharp for a series of basal readers written by William S. Gray to teach children to read. The characters first appeared in the ''Elson-Gray Readers'' in 1930 and continued in a subse ... book series See also *Harold R. Henderson Pavilion *Harry Henderson (other) {{hndis, Henderson, Harold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Lewis (ice Hockey) (1919–1991), Welsh radical historian of the Caribbean
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Gordon Lewis may refer to: * Gordon Lewis (rugby) (born 1936), Welsh rugby union and rugby league footballer *Gordon Lewis (engineer) (1924–2010), British aeronautical engineer * Gordon Lewis (producer), Irish–British film producer and author *Gordon K. Lewis Gordon K. Lewis (1919 – 1991) was a Welsh radical historian of the Caribbean. Biography Born in Newport, Wales, Newport, South Wales, Lewis attended University College Cardiff, where he earned a bachelor's degree in Modern English and Europea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitey Merritt
George Henry "Whitey" Merritt (December 29, 1869 – May 16, 1916) was a Canadian amateur ice hockey goaltender who played for the Winnipeg Victorias of the Manitoba Hockey Association during the last decade of the 19th century. Whitey Merritt started out with the Winnipeg Victorias in the 1891–92 season as both a goaltender and a skater, but from the 1893–94 season and onwards he played exclusively as a goaltender. Merritt won a Stanley Cup with the Victorias in 1896. Amongst his teammates were Dan Bain and Jack Armytage. Merritt was born in Goderich, Ontario in 1869 and died in Winnipeg in 1916. Awards and achievements *Stanley Cup The Stanley Cup (french: La Coupe Stanley) is the championship trophy awarded annually to the National Hockey League (NHL) playoff champion. It is the oldest existing trophy to be awarded to a professional sports franchise in North America, an ... Championships – 1896 with the Winnipeg Victorias. *First goalie to wear leg pads – White ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Drinkwater
Charles Graham Drinkwater (February 22, 1875 – September 27, 1946) was a Canadian ice hockey player, businessman and philanthropist. Drinkwater played for the Montreal Victorias in the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada (AHAC) in the early era before professionalism. He had the ability to play both forward and defence with equal skill. Drinkwater was a member of five Stanley Cup winning teams during his career. He was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1950. After hockey, Drinkwater became a partner in a stock-broker business and a supporter of several orchestras in Montreal. Early life Drinkwater was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec. He was educated at the High School of Montreal and McGill University. Drinkwater was an accomplished hockey and rugby football player in his teens. He starred with the Montreal Hockey Club junior team in 1892–93, the same year, the senior team won the first Stanley Cup. Drinkwater also played a prominent role on McGill's football team. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert MacDougall
Robert Ernest MacDougall (March 2, 1876 – March 26, 1950) was a notable Canadian ice hockey player and businessman. He played in the early days of organized ice hockey, before professionalism. He played the position of forward for the Montreal Victorias and was a member of five Stanley Cup-winning teams. Personal life MacDougall was born in Montreal, Quebec. He attended Bishop's College School boarding school in Lennoxville as a youth. At BCS he played hockey with future Victorias teammates Hartland MacDougall (no relation) and Ernie McLea. At age twelve, MacDougall played on the BCS first team of ice hockey, and is noted as one of the youngest to ever do so. After ice hockey, MacDougall would become a partner with Hartland MacDougall in the stock-trading firm MacDougall & MacDougall of Montreal. The company continues today as MacDougall MacDougall MacTier. Playing career Macdougall was the highest scoring forward before the 1900s in Stanley Cup play. Robert scored a confirme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Attie Howard
Thomas Acheson "Attie" Howard (January 5, 1871 – November 18, 1945) was a Canadian amateur ice hockey player in the era before professional ice hockey. He was a member of the 1896 Winnipeg Victorias Stanley Cup championship team. He later played in the American Amateur Hockey League (AAHL) and in the Western Pennsylvania Hockey League (WPHL) in the United States of America. Playing and coaching career Tom Howard joined the Winnipeg Victorias in 1890 and during the 1890–91 season the team played non-league games against the city-rival Winnipeg Hockey Club. He was one of the charter members of the Winnipeg Victorias alongside fellow players Jack Armytage, George "Whitey" Merritt, Fred Higginbotham and multi-athlete Jack McCulloch. He played nine seasons for the club, winning the Stanley Cup in 1896 (against the Montreal Victorias) and playing in a Stanley Cup challenge series in 1899 (also against the Montreal Victorias). In 1899–1900, Howard moved to New York City with his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
