1904–05 FAHL season - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The 1904–05 Federal Amateur Hockey League
Federal Amateur Hockey League
The Federal Amateur Hockey League was a Canadian men's senior-level ice hockey league that played six seasons from 1904 to 1909. The league was formed initially to provide a league for teams not accepted by the rival Canadian Amateur Hockey League . One team, the Montreal Le National, was the first...

(FAHL) season lasted from December 31, 1904 until March 3. Teams played an eight game schedule.

League business

Ottawa Hockey Club

Ottawa Senators (original)

The Ottawa Senators were an amateur, and later, professional, ice hockey team based in Ottawa, Canada which existed from 1883 to 1954. The club was the first hockey club in Ontario, a founding member of the National Hockey League and played in the NHL from 1917 until 1934...

, who officially joined the FAHL prior to the end of the last season, played its first full season in the league. Montreal Le National left the league and joined the rival Canadian Amateur Hockey League

Canadian Amateur Hockey League

The Canadian Amateur Hockey League was an early men's amateur hockey league founded in 1898, replacing the organization that was formerly the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada before the 1898–99 season. The league existed for seven seasons, folding in 1905 and was itself replaced by the Eastern...

(CAHL). Ottawa had negotiated with the CAHL to return, along with the Wanderers joining, but this was turned down. Ottawa Capitals also left the FAHL.

Regular season

The newly transferred Ottawa Hockey Club would win the league championship with a record of seven wins and one loss.

Highlights

Frank McGee would score five goals against the Montagnards on February 4.

Final standing

Team	Games Played	Wins	Losses	Goals For	Goals Against
Ottawa Hockey Club	8	7	1	60	19
Montreal Wanderers Montreal Wanderers The Montreal Wanderers were a Canadian amateur, and later becoming a professional men's ice hockey team. The team played in the Federal Amateur Hockey League , the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association , the National Hockey Association and briefly the National Hockey League . The Wanderers are...	8	6	2	44	27
Brockville Brockville, Ontario Brockville is a city in Eastern Ontario, Canada, in the Thousand Islands region. Though it serves as the seat of the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville, Brockville is politically independent and is grouped with Leeds and Grenville for census purposes only.Known as the "City of the 1000...	8	4	4	34	30
Cornwall Cornwall, Ontario Cornwall is a city in Eastern Ontario, Canada and the seat of the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario. Cornwall is Ontario's easternmost city, located on the St... HC	8	3	5	18	37
Montreal Montagnards Montreal Montagnards The Montreal Montagnards were an early amateur ice hockey team in Canada, organized in the early 1900s. The club is notable as one of the first teams made up of francophone players, the sport having been dominated until that time by players of English or Scottish descent.-History:The Montagnards...	8	0	8	19	62

Results

Month	Day	Visitor	Score	Home	Score
Dec.	31	Cornwall	4	Wanderers	6
Jan.	2	Montagnards	3	Brockville	10
	7	Wanderers	3	Ottawa	9
	11	Cornwall	2	Brockville	3
	13	Wanderers	6	Montagnards	1
	21	Montagnards	2	Cornwall	4
	23	Ottawa	3	Brockville	5
	27	Cornwall	3	Montagnards	2
	28	Wanderers	3	Brockville	2
Feb.	1	Brockville	4	Wanderers	8
	1	Ottawa	7	Cornwall	2
	4	Montagnards	4	Ottawa	14
	8	Brockville	0	Ottawa	7
	11	Ottawa	4	Wanderers	2
	13	Brockville	1	Cornwall	2
	17	Brockville	9	Montagnards	2
	18	Wanderers	7	Cornwall	1
	24	Cornwall	0	Ottawa	9
	25	Montagnards	2	Wanderers	9
Mar.	3	Ottawa	7	Montagnards	3

Goalkeeper averages

Name	Club	GP	GA	SO	Avg.
Finnie, Dave	Ottawa	8	19	2	2.4
Baker, W.	Wanderers	7	23	0	3.3
Kerr	Brockville	8	30	0	3.8
Lavigne	Montagnards	1	4	0	4.0
Brighton	Wanderers	1	4	0	4.0
Hunter, Jack	Cornwall	8	37	0	4.6
Menard, Henri	Montagnards	7	58	0	8.3

Scoring leaders

Name	Club	GP	G
McGee, Frank	Ottawa	6	17
Marshall, Jack	Wanderers	8	17
Westwick, Harry Rat Westwick Harry "Rat" Westwick was a Canadian athlete in ice hockey and lacrosse. Westwick, nicknamed the Rat by a journalist, is most noted for his play with the Ottawa Hockey Club, nicknamed the Silver Seven during his day which won and defended the Stanley Cup from 1903 until 1906...	Ottawa	8	15
Smith, Alf Alf Smith Alfred Edward Smith was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played for the Ottawa Senators, and Kenora Thistles. He had two brothers who played senior-level hockey Harry Smith and Tommy Smith...	Ottawa	8	13
Blachford, Cecil	Wanderers	7	10
Glass, Frank	Wanderers	6	9
Lannon, W.	Brockville	8	7
Shore, Hamby Hamby Shore Samuel Hamilton Shore was a Canadian professional hockey player who played several seasons for the Ottawa Senators, notably during the "Silver Seven" era when the club was champion from 1903 until 1906...	Ottawa	3	6
Marks, Jack	Brockville	8	6
Mallette, Bob	Cornwall	8	5

Ottawa vs. Dawson City

In January 1905, the Dawson City Nuggets

Dawson City Nuggets

The Dawson City Nuggets were a hockey team from Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada that challenged the reigning champion Ottawa Hockey Club, aka "The Silver Seven," in January 1905, for the Stanley Cup. They suffered the most lopsided single-game defeat in the history of Stanley Cup...

travelled 4,000 miles (6,400 km) from the Yukon to Ottawa for a best-of-three Cup challenge series. The Nuggets actually left Dawson City on December 19, 1904 and travelled on a month-long journey by dog sled (Dawson to Whitehorse), ship (Skagway to Vancouver), and train (Whitehorse to Skagway, and Vancouver to Ottawa). Largely because of the long trip, they were no match for the Silver Seven. Ottawa defeating them in Game 1, 9–2. Numerous Stanley Cup records were then set in Game 2, including Frank McGee's 14 goals, which included eight consecutive goals scored in less than nine minutes, and a 23–2 rout, the largest margin of victory for any challenge game or Stanley Cup Final game to date.

Several players playing for Dawson were from the Ottawa area. Jim Johnstone was from Ottawa. Norman Watt was from Aylmer, Quebec

Aylmer, Quebec

Aylmer is a former city in Quebec, Canada. It became a sector of the City of Gatineau on January 1, 2002. Located on the Ottawa River and Route 148 it is a part of the National Capital Region. The population in 2006 was 41 882 — approx. 16% of Gatineau...

. Randy McLennan had played in a Stanley Cup challenge for Queen's University

Queen's University

Queen's University, , is a public research university located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Founded on 16 October 1841, the university pre-dates the founding of Canada by 26 years. Queen's holds more more than of land throughout Ontario as well as Herstmonceux Castle in East Sussex, England...

of Kingston, Ontario

Kingston, Ontario

Kingston, Ontario is a Canadian city located in Eastern Ontario where the St. Lawrence River flows out of Lake Ontario. Originally a First Nations settlement called "Katarowki," , growing European exploration in the 17th Century made it an important trading post...

. Another player has Stanley Cup challenge experience: Lorne Hanna, "formerly of the Yukon", had played for Brandon Wheat Cities

Brandon Wheat Cities

The Brandon Wheat Cities was an early senior-level elite amateur ice hockey team that played from 1903 to 1923. It was based in Brandon, Manitoba and played in the Manitoba & Northwestern Hockey Association, followed by the Manitoba Hockey Association and the early Manitoba Hockey League.The team...

in their 1904 challenge of Ottawa.

Date	Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Location
January 13, 1905	Ottawa Senators	9–2	Dawson City Nuggets	Dey's Arena Dey's Arena Dey's Arena, also known as Dey Brothers Rink, Dey's Skating Rink and The Arena, were a series of ice rinks and arenas located in Ottawa, Ontario, that hold importance in the early development of the organized sport of ice hockey in Canada...
January 16, 1905	Ottawa Senators	23–2	Dawson City Nuggets
Ottawa wins best-of-three series 2 games to 0

Game One

Dawson at Ottawa, January 13, 1905
Ottawa	9	P	Dawson	2
Dave Finnie		G	Albert Forrest
Arthur "Bones" Allen		P	Jim Johnstone
Arthur Moore		CP	Lorne Hanna
Harry Westwick	2	R	Randy McLennan	1
Frank McGee	1	C	Hector Smith
Alf Smith	4	RW	George Kennedy	1
Frank White	2	LW	Norman Watt
Referee - Harlow Stiles, Cornwall

A. Coleman lists spelling as Lorne Hanna, other spellings include Hannay (Reddick's spelling) and Hanney(in The Globe article)

B. Coleman lists E. Butterworth as referee. However, Boyle is recorded as complaining about Stiles missing off-side calls.

Source: Coleman, pg. 112

According to The Globe:

The score was 9 to 2 but Ottawa might have increased its proportions had they set to work to run up a score on the men who had travelled 4,000 miles from the far north in quest of the trophy. During the first twenty minutes of play, the challenging team made a remarkably fine showing agains the champions, but after that they gradually faded away and were never seriously in the running, indicating that the chief fault with the team is that they are not in condition to stand the test of a hard battle after their long trip of 23 days from the north. While defeated to-night, it is undoubtably the fact that the team will be a different proportion in the second game on Monday.

Sources:

Fischler(1990), pg. 261

Game Two

Dawson at Ottawa, January 16, 1905
Ottawa	23	P	Dawson	2
Dave Finnie		G	Albert Forrest
Harvey Pulford		P	Jim Johnstone
Arthur Moore		CP	Lorne Hanna
Harry Westwick	5	R	Dave Fairburn
Frank McGee	14	C	Hector Smith	2
Alf Smith	3	RW	George Kennedy
Frank White	1	LW	Norman Watt
Referee - E. Butterworth, Ottawa

Source: Coleman, pg. 112

After the second game, The Globe reported:

The visiting team was outclassed to-night quite as decisively as the score indicates. In fact had it not been for the fact of Forrest's presence in the Dawson goal the score against them might have been a great deal larger. Ottawa simply skated away from them at the whistle, and continued to pile up the goals with a merciless monotonous regularity which was farcical in the extreme.

Sources:

Fischler(1990), pg. 261

After the series, Ottawa held a banquet for Dawson City at the Ottawa Amateur Athletic Association (OAAA) clubhouse. After the banquet the Stanley Cup was drop kick

Drop kick

A drop kick is a type of kick in various codes of football. It involves a player dropping the ball and then kicking it when it bounces off the ground. It contrasts to a punt, wherein the player kicks the ball without letting it hit the ground first....

ed into the frozen Rideau Canal. It was retrieved the next day.

Ottawa vs. Rat Portage

In March 1905, the Rat Portage Thistles issued another challenge to the Senators. McGee did not play in the first game and the Thistles crushed Ottawa, 9–3. However, he returned to lead the Senators to 4–2 and 5–4 victories in games two and three, respectively.

Date	Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Location
March 7, 1905	Rat Portage Thistles	9–3	Ottawa Senators	Dey's Arena Dey's Arena Dey's Arena, also known as Dey Brothers Rink, Dey's Skating Rink and The Arena, were a series of ice rinks and arenas located in Ottawa, Ontario, that hold importance in the early development of the organized sport of ice hockey in Canada...
March 9, 1905	Ottawa Senators	4–2	Rat Portage Thistles
March 11, 1905	Ottawa Senators	5–4	Rat Portage Thistles
Ottawa wins best-of-three series 2 games to 1