Hockey 1900-1909
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American Amateur Hockey League or (_____)
Teams based in the _____ ______ _____area,
1st ________ ________in the US in _____
Through the 1900s, the New York Crescent
Athletic Club, based in Brooklyn, dominated
the league, winning 8 championships from
1900 -1910
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• Teams were ____ _____–based,
(BUT talent came from _______)
• ____________, a hotbed of hockey, formed the
Twin City League in 1902–1903
(teams from the Minneapolis and St. Paul area)
• Amateur leagues existed for short periods in
___________, __________, ___________D.C.,
___________, and __________as well.
• Outside of city or regionally based teams,
___________took up the sport and developed
___________that grew in the 1900s.
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• _________of 1900, the __ team __________
_________ ___________
(______, _________, ________, _______, and ______)
• Harvard supplanted _______as the dominant team
• _________wins 4 straight league titles
(until _________broke the streak in the 1906–7 season)
• ___________finished off the decade with its 2nd championship in
the 1909–1910 season
• ______ ______, who entered _________in 1910, would be the
impetus for their success into the next decade
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• ________ _________, from ___________,
____________,
• _______of _______began his career in _______
• Went to the prestigious ___ ____ ______ in New
Hampshire
• __________ amazing stick work led to the only defeat
that Princeton's Tigers would face that season
• The skills he developed, both at ___ _____ and during
practice at __________, would set the stage for his
emergence in the 1910s as one of the _________
___________ players of all time.
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• _________ College entered competition in the 1905–
1906 season
• Dartmouth (1908–1909) had a remarkable year finishing
2nd in the intercollegiate league to Harvard
(They also went the entire season without registering a single penalty)
• Hockey, like football, had begun to struggle with images
of __________ and __________
• In 1907 the sport's 1st official fatality occurred. Players
began to suffer injuries such as broken limbs, having their
______ sliced open by skate _______, and their heads
opened up by violent ______ ______
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• The _____, already alerted to the _________
in college football, focused on the _______
acts and began to question if ________ would
become just another example of unregulated
___________ in sport
• Dartmouth's _______-___ _______and
relative success on the ice provided hope that
hockey need not be relegated to a game of
__________ _________
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• Professional hockey’s ____ debut was in _____ starring the
_________ ______
• On that first team, __ out of the __players were ________
• “____” ________was the leading scorer for the Lakers
• 1902–1903 team picture, which included “_______” the
mascot dog, referred to the team as the champions of the
_____
• Season Record ___-___-___
• Scored _____ goals
• Gave up only ____ goals
• In the playoffs, they tied the Pittsburgh Bankers ___-___ in
the 1st game before defeating them in the 2nd contest ______ to win the U.S. Championship
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• The Portage Lakers were the 1st professional hockey
team in 1903–1904 and they ______ only ___ of their
____ games, including the __________
• Their only regular-season loss came at the hands of
________ ___ 7-6.
• In the U.S. playoffs, they lost to the _______
_________ 5-2
• After their repeat victory as U.S. Champions, the
______hosted Canada's best team, the ________
___________at the _____________ in Houghton
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• Over 5,000 fans watched as ________
defeated ________ by scores of 8-4 and 9-2 to
claim the title of ________ ____________
• An integral part of the Lakers' success was the
acquisition of _________ ________
Hancock High School State
Champions 1904-1905
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• A local high school star in not only hockey, but
also in _______ and __________ , ______
became the key __________ for Portage
• _________ , the 1st great ________-_____
hockey player, was inducted into the U.S.
Hockey Hall of Fame in 1975 joining his
teammate “Doc” Gibson, a charter member of
the Hall in 1973
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• In 1904–1905, Portage joined 3 other clubs to form the
_____________ ___________ __________ (IHL).
• The IHL attracted many of the best __________ players
• IHL teams primarily came from the Upper Peninsula
region of ___________ but also included a team from
Sault St. Marie (_______)
(allowing the founders to legitimately claim international status)
• In 1905–1906, a Pittsburgh franchise from the former
Western Pennsylvania Hockey League joined the IHL
• _____________-___________Lakes played in the
Amphidrome on Portage Lake
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• __________ home ice was in the __________
• Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan (aka _________ ______) competed
at their local curling rink named the Ridge Street Ice-A-Torium
• Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario's (__________ ____) home ice was
at the local curling rink
• _____________ found a home in the Duquesne Gardens
• Unfortunately, Portage would be the only IHL team to win the
championship
• The league operated for only __ seasons and folded when
competition from professional leagues in ______ lured away
the top __________ ___________
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• As a professional league, the IHL could not compete for the
____________ _____
• ________, however, issued challenges after both the 1905
and 1906 seasons to the Stanley Cup Board of Directors in an
effort to be able to play the ________ ________ _______ in a
championship series
(Both times they were turned down)
• Professional teams were not allowed to compete for the Cup
until after the formation of ___________ professional leagues
in 1908
• As a result of the ________ _____ being given in 1908
to_____________ ________, a new cup for _________ _____
was established that same year by _____ ___ ___________
_________ to replace the __________ _______
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• Hockey at the amateur, semiprofessional, and
professional levels __________ in the
________
• Leagues __________ , had __________
success, and then __________ with regularity
• None sustained continued ________ to
catapult the sport into the __________
consciousness into the next ________
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• The collegiate game had a little more stability.
• Regardless of the organizational struggles,
hockey developed some incredible players
during this period who would go on to earn
Hall of Fame recognition and become idols of
the game.