1905 CAHL season
LeagueCanadian Amateur Hockey League
SportIce hockey
DurationJanuary 2, 1905 – March 11, 1905
Number of teams6
1905
ChampionsMontreal Victorias
Top scorerRussell Bowie (27 goals)

The 1905 Canadian Amateur Hockey League (CAHL) season was the seventh and final season of the league. Teams played a ten-game schedule. This year saw the addition of two teams, Montreal Westmount and Montreal Nationals. Montreal Nationals had previously been in the FAHL. Montreal Victorias won the league championship with a record of 9–1.

League business

Executive

  • Fred McRobie, Victorias (President)
  • Harry Shaw, Montreal (Secretary-Treasurer)

At the league meeting, new franchises were granted to Montreal Westmount and Montreal Le National. Grand Trunk, Three Rivers and Montreal Wanderers were turned down. Ottawa representative J.P. Dickson attended the meeting to try to arrange a return to the league by Ottawa on condition that Wanderers were accepted also. This was turned down, partly because the league had decided to have exclusively amateur players.

Pre-season

Quebec Hockey Club went to New York City in December 1904 for an exhibition series against tha amateur teams of New York at St. Nicholas Rink. Quebec lost to New York Wanderers 5-3[1] and defeated the New York Athletic Club 7-2.[2]

Regular season

Highlights

Montreal Hockey Club's captain, Archie Hooper died before the season of complications stemming from a February 1903 ice hockey game injury.

This season saw several impressive rookies including Art Ross for Montreal Westmount and Ernie Russell for Montreal. Lester and Frank Patrick played together for Montreal Westmount.[3]

The league had a lot of scoring. The league leader, Russell Bowie of Victorias scored 27 goals in eight games. On January 7, Shamrocks and Westmount combined for 24 goals in a Shamrocks 14–10 win. On February 18, Fred Brophy, the Westmount goaltender, decided to get in on the act and rushed the length of the ice to score against Paddy Moran of Quebec.[3]

Montreal Le National lost their first four games by a combined score of 6–42 and withdrew from the rest of the schedule, defaulting the rest of their matches.[3]

Montreal Victorias won the season with a record of 9–1, but could not make a satisfactory arrangement with the Stanley Cup trustees and would not play in a challenge against Ottawa. The Victorias were granted a best-of-three series by the trustees, but declined, demanding a sudden-death game or two-game, total-goals series, which was not agreed to by the trustees.[4]

Final standing

Team Games Played Wins Losses Ties Goals For Goals Against
Montreal Victorias
10
9
1
0
64
32
Quebec Hockey Club
10
8
2
0
78
45
Montreal Hockey Club
10
7
3
0
54
42
Montreal Shamrocks
10
3
7
0
41
62
Montreal Westmount
10
3
7
0
55
75
Montreal Le National
10
0
10†
0
6
42

† Le National defaulted their last six games.

Schedule and results

Month Day Visitor Score Home Score
Jan. 2Montreal9Le National1
7Shamrocks14Westmount10
7Victorias5Quebec3
11Montreal6Shamrocks1
14Quebec10Westmount9
16Le National1Shamrocks8
18Victorias8Montreal5
21Le National2Quebec13
21Victorias7Shamrocks2
23Westmount12Le National2
26Quebec4Shamrocks2
28Montreal5Westmount4
30†NationalsVictorias
Feb. 1Westmount4Victorias9
4Montreal3Quebec7
4Westmount3Shamrocks2
13†NationalsWestmount
18Shamrocks5Montreal7
18Westmount5Quebec17
22Victorias13Shamrocks4
22†NationalsMontreal
25Quebec3Victorias8
27†QuebecNationals
27Montreal6Victorias3
Mar. 1†ShamrocksNationals
4Victorias11Westmount5
4Shamrocks3Quebec11
6† (††)VictoriasNationals
8Westmount3Montreal5
11Quebec10Montreal8

† Defaulted by Nationals

†† Victorias clinch league championship.

Player statistics

Art Ross with the Montreal Westmount.

Goaltending averages

Name Club GP GA SO GAA
Nathan Frye Victorias8324.0
Oliver Waugh Montreal9424.7
Paddy Moran Quebec9455.0
Mike Kenny Shamrocks9626.9
Fred Brophy Westmount6498.2
Edgar Darling Westmount3268.7
Joseph Cattarinich Le National44210.5

Scoring leaders

Name Club GP G
Bowie, Russell Victorias827
Russel, Blair Victorias819
Power, Joe Quebec915
Foulis, Colin Westmount713
Russell, Ernie Montreal811
Ross, Art Westmount810
Hogan, Eddie Quebec910
Church, Tom Westmount99
Howard, Cavie Victorias89
Jordan, Herb Quebec89

See also

References

  • Coleman, Charles L. (1966). The Trail of the Stanley Cup, Vol. 1, 1893–1926 inc. NHL.
Notes
  1. ↑ "New York Beats Quebec". The Ottawa Journal. December 27, 1904. p. 2 – via newspapers.com.
  2. ↑ "Quebec Beats New York". The Ottawa Journal. December 27, 1904. p. 2 – via newspapers.com.
  3. 1 2 3 Coleman, p. 102
  4. ↑ Coleman, p. 103
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