1898-99 Pittsburgh Athletic Club hockey team

The 1898–99 WPHL season was the second season of operation for the

Western Pennsylvania Hockey League The Western Pennsylvania Hockey League (WPHL) was an originally amateur and later professional ice hockey league founded in 1896 and existing through 1909. Based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the league became the pre-eminent ice hockey league in ...

. Four

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-area teams competed in the season, in which all games were played at the Duquesne Gardens. The league reconstituted in the newly finished hockey rink at the

Duquesne Gardens The Duquesne Gardens (officially Duquesne Garden until 1940 and The Gardens afterward) was the main sports arena located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, during the first half of the 20th century. Built in 1890, the building originally served as a tr ...

, after the

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was destroyed in an 1896 fire that cut short the previous WPHL season. The so-called "Pittsburgh" or "All-Pittsburgh" team of the first season was not reformed and only three teams played in the league. The

Pittsburgh Athletic Club The Pittsburgh Athletic Club (PAC) was one of the earliest professional ice hockey teams. It was based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from around 1895 until 1905 and again from 1907 to 1909. The team was a member of the Western Pennsylvania Hockey ...

won 9 of 12 games to win their first WPHL championship.

Season

Final standings

Note GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, PCT = Percentage

Results

References

* Western Pennsylvania Hockey League seasons WPHL {{Pittsburgh-stub