The 1890 Ottawa Hockey Club season was the club's fifth season of play. Although the club was now established at the Rideau Skating Rink

Rideau Skating Rink

The Rideau Skating Rink was an indoor skating and curling rink located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It was one of the first indoor skating rinks in Canada, opened in January 1889...

, the club played only two games against outside teams and did not participate in championship play.

Team business

P. D. Ross was named team president, and Frank Jenkins

Frank Maurice Stinson Jenkins

Frank Maurice Stinson Jenkins was an early amateur ice hockey player. He was a founder, and the first captain of the Ottawa Hockey Club of 1883...

, again the captain. The Club became affiliated with the new Ottawa Amateur Athletic Club and adopted the red, black and white colours of the Association, and adopted the Club's triskelion

Triskelion

A triskelion or triskele is a motif consisting of three interlocked spirals, or three bent human legs, or any similar symbol with three protrusions and a threefold rotational symmetry. Both words are from Greek or , "three-legged", from prefix "τρι-" , "three times" + "σκέλος" , "leg"...

 logo. The uniform was not yet the 'barber pole' design, but a white jersey with black trim and the Club logo, white knee breeches and black stockings.

Season

The Club played an exhibition game against the Montreal Victorias

Montreal Victorias

The Victoria Hockey Club of Montreal, Quebec, Canada was an early men's amateur ice hockey club. Its date of origin is ascribed to either 1874, 1877 or 1881, making it either the first or second organized ice hockey club after McGill University. The club played at its own rink, the Victoria Skating...

 at the Rideau Rink (a 3-1 loss on February 25), in conjunction with the Canadian skating championships. The 'seconds' played five games, four against Ottawa College

University of Ottawa

The University of Ottawa is a bilingual, research-intensive, non-denominational, international university in Ottawa, Ontario. It is one of the oldest universities in Canada. It was originally established as the College of Bytown in 1848 by the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate...

, now the second ice hockey team in town.

Roster

(against outside teams)

• Reginald Bradley
• Edwin 'Ted' Dey
• Thomas Green
  Thomas D. Green
  Thomas Daniel Green was an early Canadian amateur ice hockey player, ice hockey executive, engineer and surveyor. He was a Mohawk, possibly the first Mohawk accredited land surveyor in Canada...
  
  
• Frank Jenkins
  Frank Maurice Stinson Jenkins
  Frank Maurice Stinson Jenkins was an early amateur ice hockey player. He was a founder, and the first captain of the Ottawa Hockey Club of 1883...
  
  
• Jack Kerr
  Jack Kerr (ice hockey)
  Jack Kerr was a Canadian ice hockey player and athlete. He was one of the founders of the Ottawa Hockey Club for which he played from 1883 onwards. He was a member of the Ontario championship team in 1891, 1892, 1893 and the Canadian championship team of 1892...
  
  
• Chauncey Kirby
• Halder Kirby
• George Young
• Weldy Young
  Weldy Young
  Weldon C. Young was a Canadian businessman and athlete. Young was an ice hockey player for the Ottawa Hockey Club, playing in its founding years in the 1880s and in the 1890s. Young later became a member of the Dawson City Nuggets which played against Ottawa in the 1905 Stanley Cup challenge...