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1904 CAHL season
LeagueCanadian Amateur Hockey League
SportIce hockey
DurationJanuary 2, 1904 – February 24, 1904
Number of teams5
1904
ChampionsQuebec Hockey Club
Top scorerRussell Bowie (27 goals)
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The 1904 Canadian Amateur Hockey League (CAHL) season was the sixth season of the league. Teams played an eight-game schedule. This was a tumultuous year as Ottawa resigned in February and defaulted four games. The Quebec Hockey Club placed first to take the championship. Quebec did not play for the Stanley Cup.

Also, prior to the start of the season a rival hockey league, the Federal Amateur Hockey League was started, with the Montreal Wanderers taking most of the 'Little Men of Iron' from the Montreal Hockey Club.

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Executive

  • Harry Trihey, Shamrocks (President)
  • F. Stocking, Quebec (1st Vice-President)
  • J. P. Dickson ( 2nd Vice-President)
  • Fred McRobie, Montreal (Secretary-Treasurer)

As the Wanderers had signed players from Montreal, it was forbidden for teams to play games against FAHL teams, and for team officials to participate in FAHL activities.

Season

Highlights

This season saw several impressive rookies including Frank Patrick for Montreal Victorias, Ernie (Moose) Johnson for Montreal and Alf Smith and Jim McGee for Ottawa.

The season started out with Ottawa winning their first four games. However, in their third game against the Victorias, the Ottawa team arrived 1½ hours late. The game was called at midnight, with Ottawa ahead 4–1. After a game where the Shamrocks arrived late in Ottawa, the League levied fines against the Shamrocks and Ottawa, and ordered the Ottawa-Victorias game to be replayed. Despite a threat from Mr. Dickson of Ottawa that Ottawa would resign if the game was to be replayed, the League continued to demand that the game be played. The Ottawa club offered to play it if it had a bearing on the league championship, but this was not acceptable to the league. In the end, Ottawa resigned from the league and the league considered the final four games to be forfeits. This overshadowed a great season from Quebec, which won the CAHL season with a record of 5–1 (plus two wins by forfeit).

Final standings

Team Games Played Wins Losses Ties Goals For Goals Against
Quebec Hockey Club
6
5
1
0
50
37
Montreal Victorias
8
5
3
0
75
48
Montreal Hockey Club
7
2
5
0
34
49
Montreal Shamrocks
7
0
7
0
32
74
Ottawa Hockey Club‡
4
4
0
0
32
15

‡ Resigned from league.

Stanley Cup challenges

Further information: 1903–04 Ottawa Hockey Club season

Ottawa would leave the CAHL in mid-season, leaving Quebec to win the league. The Stanley Cup did not pass to the Quebec Bulldogs based on their league championship. The Cup trustees decided that the Cup went with Ottawa. Quebec refused to make a challenge for the Stanley Cup, arguing that the Cup belonged to the CAHL season winner.[1]

Winnipeg vs. Ottawa

Before they resigned from the CAHL, Ottawa HC defended the Cup against the Winnipeg Rowing Club in a best two-of-three series played in Ottawa 9–1,2–6,2–0 (2–1).

Date Winning Team Score Losing Team Location
December 30, 1903 Ottawa HC 9–1 Winnipeg Rowing Club Aberdeen Pavilion, Ottawa
January 1, 1904 Winnipeg Rowing Club 6–2 Ottawa HC
January 4, 1904 Ottawa HC 2–0 Winnipeg Rowing Club
Ottawa wins best-of-three series 2 games to 1
December 30, 1903
Ottawa (9) Winnipeg (1)
Player G Pos Player G
John "Bouse" Hutton G Art Brown
Harvey Pulford, Capt P Percy E. Brown
Arthur Moore CP S. Crawford Richards
Harry Westwick 4 RO Joe Hall
Frank McGee 3 C William Breen, Capt
Suddy Gilmour 1 LW Billy Bawlf 1
Alf Smith 1 RW Clint E. Bennest
Jim McGee sub Claude Borland
Billy Gilmour sub Harry Kirby
Referee – Harry Trihey
Umpires – William A. Northey, C. J. Hanratty

Source: Montreal Gazette[2]

January 1, 1904
Ottawa (2) Winnipeg (6)
Player G Pos Player G
John "Bouse" Hutton G Art Brown
Harvey Pulford, Capt P Percy E. Brown
Arthur Moore CP Eric Hamber
Harry Westwick 1 RO Joe Hall 1
Frank McGee C William Breen, Capt 2
Suddy Gilmour LW Billy Bawlf 2
Alf Smith 1 RW Claude Borland 1
Referee – Harry Trihey
Umpires – M. J. McCrory, C. J. Hanratty

Source: Montreal Gazette[3]

January 4, 1904
Ottawa (2) Winnipeg (0)
Player G Pos Player G
John "Bouse" Hutton G Art Brown
Harvey Pulford, Capt P Percy E. Brown
Arthur Moore CP Eric Hamber
Harry Westwick RO Joe Hall
Frank McGee 1 C William Breen, Capt
Suddy Gilmour 1 LW Billy Bawlf
Billy Gilmour RW Claude Borland
Referee – Harry Trihey
Umpires – M. J. McCrory, C. J. Hanratty

Source: Montreal Gazette[4]

Exhibitions

After the season, the Montreal Victorias travelled to New York city, to play against Brooklyn Crescents and the New York Wanderers. The Victorias tied Brooklyn 8–8 and lost to the Wanderers 6–4.[5]

Schedule and results

Month Day Visitor Score Home Score
Jan. 2 Victorias 18 Shamrocks 2
2 Montreal 3 Quebec 9
9 Victorias 6 Ottawa 10
9 Quebec 13 Shamrocks 5
16 Ottawa 8 Montreal 3
16 Victorias 12 Quebec 5
20 Shamrocks 3 Montreal 8
23 Victorias 8 Montreal 5
30 Shamrocks 6 Quebec 8
30† Ottawa 4 Victorias 1
Feb. 6 Quebec 6 Montreal 4
6 Shamrocks 5 Ottawa 10
13 Victorias 12 Shamrocks 7
17 Montreal 5 Shamrocks 4
20 (††) Quebec 9 Victorias 7
24 Montreal 6 Victorias 11
– Montreal Ottawa
– Ottawa Shamrocks
– Quebec Ottawa
– Ottawa Quebec

† Ordered to be replayed but never replayed as Ottawa resigned from league.

†† Quebec clinches league championship.

Player statistics

Goaltending averages

Note: GP = Games played, GA = Goals against, SO = Shutouts, GAA = Goals against average

Name Club GP GA SO GAA
Hutton, John Bouse Ottawa 4 15 3.8
Nichol, Jim Victorias 8 48 6.0
Moran, Paddy Quebec 6 37 6.2
Waugh, Oliver Montreal 5 32 6.4
Brophy, Fred Montreal 1 8 8.0
Mike Kenny Shamrocks 4 35 8.8
S. Price Montreal 1 9 9.0
James Cloran Shamrocks 3 39 13.0

Scoring leaders

Note: GP = Game played, G = Goals scored

Name Club GP G
Bowie, Russell Victorias 8 27
Jordan, Herb Quebec 6 19
Russell, Blair Victorias 8 17
Howard, Cavie Victorias 6 16
McGee, Frank Ottawa 4 12
Sargent, Grover Montreal 6 11
Power, Joe Quebec 6 10
Coulson, Herbert Montreal 6 8
Smith, Alf Ottawa 4 8
Foulis, Colin Shamrocks 6 7

Stanley Cup engraving

The following Ottawa Hockey Club players and staff were members of the Stanley Cup winning team. 1904 Ottawa Hockey Club Silver Sevens

Players

  Forwards
  Defencemen

Coaching and administrative staff

  • Percy M. Butler (President), Robert T. "Bob" Shillington (manager)
  • Patrick Baskerville (treasurer), Thomas D'Arcy McGee (secretary)
  • Halder Kirby (club doctor), Llewellyn Bates (Vice President)
  • Chauncy Kirby, Martin Rosenthal, Charles Sparks (directors)
  • Mac McGilton (Ass't Trainer), Pete Green (trainer)
  • no official team picture, has been found for 1904 Ottawa

Stanley Cup engraving

Cyclone Taylor scratched 'Fred W. Taylor' over the official engraving of 'OTTAWA 1904/Ottawa vs Wanderers'.[6]

  • &unknown first name.

Montreal Wanderers vs. Ottawa

A two-game series between the Montreal Wanderers from the FAHL and Ottawa from the CAHL was arranged, for the Stanley Cup. The teams played the first game in Montreal to a tie of 5–5. Montreal refused to play overtime, demanding that the game be considered a no-contest and proposed that the series start over as a best two-of-three series. The Cup trustees demanded that the series continued as scheduled and the Wanderers abandoned the challenge.[7]

Date Winning Team Score Losing Team Location
March 2, 1904 Ended in a 5–5 tie Montreal Arena
Ottawa wins series; Montreal is disqualified for refusing to play second game in Ottawa.

According to the Gazette, the game saw "the dirtiest game ever seen between two senior teams at the Arena." Thirty-six penalties were called. Thomas Leahy was injured and replaced by Ken Mallen. James Strachan, president of the Wanderers was quoted as saying that the Wanderers would not go to Ottawa and play with Dr. Kearns as referee. Ottawa took a 2–0 lead, before the Wanderers scored five in a row. The Ottawas came back with three, the final goal by Frank McGee.[8]

March 2, 1904
Ottawa (5) Montreal (5)
Player G Pos Player G
John "Bouse" Hutton G Billy Nicholson
Jim McGee P Billy Strachan
Alf Smith CP Billy Bellingham
Harry Westwick 2 R Thomas Leahy,
Ken Mallen		 1
1
Frank McGee 1 C Jack Marshall 1
Billy Gilmour 1 RW Jimmy Gardner 1
Suddy Gilmour 1 LW Cecil Blatchford 1
Referee - Dr. Kearns
Umpires - Stevens, Baskerville

Source: Montreal Gazette[8]

The Wanderers demanded a replay of the game to be held in Montreal, which Ottawa refused. The series was cancelled, with Ottawa retained the Stanley Cup championship. Ottawa then joined FAHL in the offseason.[9] | |}

Brandon Wheat City vs. Ottawa

Brandon Wheat City Hockey Club, the Manitoba League champion challenged for the Cup in a best two-of-three series. It was scheduled only days after the Montreal Wanderers challenge (Coleman page. 98–99)

Date Winning Team Score Losing Team Location
March 9, 1904 Ottawa 6–3 Brandon Dey's Arena
March 11, 1904 Ottawa 9–3 Brandon
Ottawa HC wins best-of-three series two games to none

Source: (Coleman page 98–99)

March 9, 1904
Brandon 3 Ottawa 6
Player G Pos Player G
H. "Dutchie" Morrison G John "Bouse" Hutton
Lester Patrick P Harvey Pulford, Capt.
Lorne Hanna, Coach 2 CP Jim McGee
George Smith R Harry Westwick
Jackie Brodie 1 C Frank McGee 5
Lorne Laidlaw RW Alf Smith 1
Harry Bright 1 LW Suddy Gilmour
Referee - Dr. Kearns
Umpires - Stevens, Baskerville
  • Spare - Brandon - Robert Cross (Captain), William Hopper, S.G Lowe, H. Breton, F. Wheelan
  • Spares - Ottawa - Billy Gilmour - RW, Arthur Moore - D. (Coleman page 98–99).
  • Refeeree F. Chittick - Umpirers Senator Watson, William Foran
March 11, 1904
Brandon 3 Ottawa 9
Player G Pos Player G
H. "Dutchie" Morrison G John "Bouse" Hutton
Lester Patrick P Harvey Pulford, Capt.
Lorne Hanna, Coach CP Jim McGee
George Smith 1 R Harry Westwick 1
Jackie Brodie 1 C Frank McGee 3
Lorne Laidlaw 1 RW Alf Smith 4
Harry Bright 1 LW Suddy Gilmour 1
Referee - Dr. Kearns
Umpires - Stevens, Baskerville
  • Spare - Brandon - Robert Cross (Captain), William Hopper, S.G Lowe, H. Breton, F. Wheelan
  • Spares - Ottawa - Billy Gilmour - RW, Arthur Moore - D
  • Refeeree F. Chittick - Umpirers Senator Watson, William Foran

See also

References

Bibliography

  • Coleman, Charles L. (1966). The Trail of the Stanley Cup, Vol. 1, 1893–1926 inc.
  • Podnieks, Andrew (2004). Lord Stanley's Cup. Triumph Books. ISBN 1-55168-261-3.
  • Shea, Kevin; Wilson, John Jason (2006). Lord Stanley: The Man Behind the Cup. Fenn Publishing Company, Ltd. ISBN 1-55168-281-8.

Notes

  1. ^ "Demands Stanley Cup". Montreal Gazette. February 25, 1904. p. 2.
  2. ^ "Easy for Ottawa". Montreal Gazette. December 31, 1903. p. 2.
  3. ^ "Rowers Won Game". Montreal Gazette. January 2, 1904. p. 2.
  4. ^ "Ottawa Holds Cup". Montreal Gazette. January 5, 1904. p. 2.
  5. ^ "Draw and Loss for Vics". Ottawa Citizen. March 14, 1904. p. 8.
  6. ^ Shea and Wilson(2006), pg. 430
  7. ^ Kitchen, pg. 140
  8. ^ a b "Game Was A Draw". Montreal Gazette. March 3, 1904. p. 2.
  9. ^ "Ottawa Says No; Others Won't Go". Montreal Gazette. March 5, 1904. p. 2.
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