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32-540: James Strachan announced the formation of the new club on December 1, 1903. The team was founded on December 3, 1903, when club members met and selected their colours as red and white and named their officers: The club had formed over a dispute over the control of the Montreal Hockey Club . Along with teams rejected for membership in the Canadian Amateur Hockey League (CAHL), the club helped found

64-569: A 5–5 tie game. The Wanderers would refuse to continue the series unless the tie was replayed in Montreal, and forfeited the series. This was the start of a terrific rivalry as Ottawa and the Wanderers would split the championship between them from 1903 until 1911. Ottawa and the Wanderers would meet again in 1906, after a regular season tie for first place in the ECAHA, and played a two-game total goals series for

96-570: A team that specifically appealed to Montreal's Francophone community, the Wanderers drew their support from Montreal's English-speaking community . A new team, the Montreal Maroons , was later established to take the Wanderers' place. The owners originally intended to use the name Wanderers but were unable to obtain rights to the name. The Maroons, too, would eventually fold in 1938, ending efforts to entrench separate Montreal-based teams for French- and English-speaking fans. The Wanderers nickname

128-626: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Montreal Royals The Montreal Royals were a minor league professional baseball team in Montreal , Quebec, during 1897–1917 and 1928–1960. A member of the International League , the Royals were the top farm club ( Class AAA ) of the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1939; pioneering African-American player Jackie Robinson was a member for

160-638: The Federal Amateur Hockey League (FAHL) on December 5, 1903. Many of the early Wanderers had been members of the Montreal Hockey Club team of 1902–03, which won the Stanley Cup. That team had been known as the "Little Men of Iron" because of the players' tenacity and small stature, and the nickname carried over to the new club. The Wanderers first Stanley Cup challenge was played against the Ottawa Hockey Club on March 2, 1904, resulting in

192-778: The New Glasgow Cubs 17–5 in a two-game total goals series. Montreal repeated as league champions in 1907, then faced the Kenora Thistles in a Cup challenge in January 1907. Kenora defeated Montreal 4–2 and 8–6, taking the Cup back to Northern Ontario . The Wanderers would regain the Cup from Kenora two months later in Winnipeg , Manitoba , defeating the Thistles 7–2 and 5–6. The Wanderers won their third consecutive league title in 1908 while defending

224-662: The Syracuse Chiefs . Montreal would gain an MLB team, the Expos , in 1969; "Royals" was suggested as a nickname for that team but was taken instead by the new American League club in Kansas City. The Royals won the Governors' Cup , the championship of the IL, 7 times, and played in the championship series 11 times. First Awarded in 1953 First Awarded in 1950. Given to the player who leads

256-602: The 1946 season. The 1946 Royals were recognized as one of the 100 greatest minor league teams of all time . In 1928, George Stallings , a former Major League Baseball executive and Southern United States planter , formed a partnership with Montreal lawyer and politician Athanase David and businessman Ernest Savard to resurrect the Montreal Royals. Among the team's other local affluent notables were close friends Lucien Beauregard, Romeo Gauvreau, Hector H. Racine, and Charles E. Trudeau . Trudeau, businessman and father of

288-523: The 1960 season, two years after the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles. On September 13, 1960, Dodgers President Walter O'Malley announced that due to weak attendance, the Dodgers were ending their 21-year affiliation with the team. While a new affiliation with the Minnesota Twins was arranged, efforts to keep the team in Montreal failed, and the franchise was relocated to Syracuse, New York for 1961, and became

320-867: The Cup in a mid-season challenge by the Ottawa Victorias in January. After their third consecutive ECAHA title, the Wanderers were given its trophy, the Arena Cup permanently. The Cup is on display in the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto. After the 1908 regular season, Montreal defended the Stanley Cup twice in March 1908, in challenges by the Winnipeg Maple Leafs , and the Toronto Professional Hockey Club . The 1908 Wanderers team scratched their names inside

352-648: The ECAHA to Ottawa. The Wanderers were involved in the formation of the NHA. After the 1908 season, the Wanderers had been sold to P. J. Doran, owner of the Jubilee Rink who now made plans to move the club from the Montreal Arena to the smaller Jubilee for the 1910 season. This upset the other members of the ECHA, who would receive a smaller share of the proceeds from games played in the Wanderers rink. The other ECHA members suspended

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384-555: The ECHA and set up the Canadian Hockey Association league and rejected the application of the Wanderers to join. The Wanderers' representative at the meeting, Jimmy Gardner met Ambrose O'Brien in the ground floor of the hotel where the league was meeting. Gardner suggested to O'Brien, who had been rejected in his application for the Renfrew Creamery Kings to join the ECHA, that they form a new league, including

416-699: The Maroons won the Stanley Cup championship in 1926 . Strachan served as Maroons' president from their founding in 1924 until June 1934, when he resigned to take care of his businesses. James Strachan's younger brothers Billy and Bert Strachan were both ice hockey players with the Montreal Victorias and the Montreal Wanderers. James Strachan died April 5th, 1939 after a lengthy illness at age 62. This Canadian biographical article relating to ice hockey

448-570: The NHL's inaugural season and lost all but one before their home rink, the Montreal Arena , burned down on January 2, 1918. At the time, they had lost star players Sprague Cleghorn and Odie Cleghorn and had appealed to the other teams for player help. Before the fire, they had successfully obtained goaltender Hap Holmes from Seattle of the PCHA and it seemed that they might turn around their misfortunes. After

480-524: The Royals during the 1946 season. John Wright and Roy Partlow, black pitchers, also played with the Royals that year. During that season, Robinson faced the race-related resistance from his manager (a Mississippian , Clay Hopper ) and teammates but soon won them over with his masterful play (beginning with his spectacular debut in the opening game against the Jersey City Giants ) and courage facing hostile crowds and opponents. As for his home city, he

512-554: The Stanley Cup. Only the Kenora Thistles , for 61 days in 1907 (January 23 through March 25), would impinge on these two teams. The Wanderers would win or defend the Cup ten times in their first seven years of existence, and lost only two direct challenges (to Ottawa March 1904 and Kenora January 1907) during that period. Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against Note: 1 = first half of season, 2 = second half of season The following Hockey Hall of Fame players played for

544-567: The Wanderers during some point in their careers: James Strachan (ice hockey) James Frederick Strachan (June 21, 1876 – April 5, 1939) was a Canadian ice hockey executive and businessman. He was an owner or part-owner with the Montreal Wanderers and Montreal Maroons . Strachan was owner and president of the Montreal Wanderers from 1904 to 1909 during which the Wanderers won 3 of their 4 Stanley Cups in 1906, 1907 and 1908. In 1908–09, he also served as their head coach. He sold

576-574: The Wanderers, Renfrew and the Cobalt and Haileybury teams that O'Brien owned. O'Brien agreed and on December 4, 1909, the NHA was founded. Later in January 1910, the CHA folded and Ottawa and Montreal Shamrocks joined the NHA. Doran sold the club to Eddie McCafferty, the secretary of the Montreal Royals minor-league baseball team, owned by Sam Lichtenhein . McCafferty incorporated the Wanderers and sold shares of

608-571: The bowl, which was just prior to the second band being added to the Cup. The team included five future Honoured Members of the Hockey Hall of Fame : Moose Johnson , Hod Stuart , Riley Hern , Lester Patrick , and Ernie Russell . Before the 1909 season started, Montreal defended its Cup in a challenge by the Edmonton Hockey Club , winning 13–10 in two games. The Wanderers would lose the Cup they had held for two years, finishing second place in

640-606: The club to P. J. Doran in 1909. The sale eventually triggered the formation of the National Hockey Association (NHA) when Doran moved the Wanderers to the Jubilee Rink . The Rink was smaller than the Wanderers' previous rink, the Montreal Arena , and the other Eastern Canada Hockey League members formed a new ice hockey league to remove the Wanderers. The Wanderers then formed their own league (the NHA) in partnership with Ambrose O'Brien . The ECHA's new league failed and some of

672-478: The club to the public. The majority of shares were bought by Lichtenhein, and he became president of the club's corporation. The club moved back to the Montreal Arena. The Wanderers regained the Cup in 1910, winning the championship of the new NHA and the new O'Brien Cup . The Wanderers successfully defended the Stanley Cup for the final time versus the Berlin Dutchmen in March 1910. Montreal fell to fourth place

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704-477: The fire, the Wanderers again appealed for reinforcements, but none were forthcoming. The team defaulted its next two games, against the Montreal Canadiens and Toronto , and then disbanded. The last active Wanderers player was George Geran , who played his last NHL game in 1926. Dave Ritchie and Phil Stevens also played that season, but not the full year. After the founding of the Montreal Canadiens ,

736-528: The following month, won their first league championship the next month, and challenged the Ottawa "Silver Seven/Senators" Hockey Club (HC) for the Stanley Cup on March 2, 1904. While they lost that first challenge, it marked the start of a period of eight consecutive years through March 5, 1912, where these two teams would co-exist and either the Montreal Wanderers (1,390 days) or the Ottawa HC (1,474 days) would hold

768-518: The following season, and lost the privilege to defend the Stanley Cup. The Wanderers would then miss the playoffs four consecutive seasons. Montreal's last winning season came in 1914–15 , when they tied for first place and lost in a playoff for the league championship. The Wanderers would win only 15 of their next 44 games in two seasons, before the NHA was reorganized as the National Hockey League (NHL). The Wanderers played only four games in

800-543: The following year, but not before winning the Little World Series and being chased by exultant Montreal fans right to the train as he left. In Ken Burns ' documentary film Baseball , the narrator quotes Sam Maltin, a sports journalist with the Montreal Herald : "It was probably the only day in history that a black man ran from a white mob with love instead of lynching on its mind." The Royals continued through

832-549: The future 15th Prime Minister of Canada , Pierre Trudeau (and grandfather to the 23rd Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau ), would remain on the Montreal Baseball Club Inc. Board of Directors until his death in 1935. Together these men financed and built Delorimier Stadium (also known as Montreal Stadium, Hector Racine Stadium and Delorimier Downs) at Delorimier Avenue and Ontario Street in east-end Montreal to serve as

864-533: The league championship and the Cup. The Wanderers won the first game in Montreal 9–1. The 'Silver Seven' would storm back in the return match in Ottawa, with a 9–1 lead at one point in the game evening the total goals, but only won 9–3 as the Wanderers scored the last two goals, to win the series, and their first Stanley Cup. Montreal defended the Cup in its first challenge as champions in December 1906. The Wanderers defeated

896-498: The team's home field. This version of the Montreal Royals enjoyed great success, particularly after it became the top farm team of the Dodgers in 1939. The Royals launched the baseball careers of Sparky Anderson , Gene Mauch , Roberto Clemente and the man who broke Major League Baseball 's color barrier with Montreal in 1946, Jackie Robinson . Other Royals' players of note include Duke Snider , Don Drysdale , Chuck Connors , Walter Alston , Roy Campanella , Johnny Podres and

928-413: The teams joined the NHA. Strachan later served as first president of the Montreal Maroons ice hockey club. Strachan intended for the Maroons to be a revival of the Wanderers but he could not secure clear title to the name. The original Wanderers had folded in 1918 after a fire at the Montreal Arena. Lacking a name, the club was dubbed the 'Maroons' after the colour of their jerseys. In their second season

960-590: The winningest pitcher in the history of the team, Tommy Lasorda . The team holds a unique place in baseball history for being the first major-league affiliate to break the so-called "baseball colour barrier" . On October 23, 1945, two members of the Brooklyn National League Baseball Club Inc. Board of Directors, Montreal Royals owner and team president, Hector Racine, and Brooklyn Dodgers general manager , Branch Rickey , signed Jackie Robinson , an African-American . Robinson played with

992-729: Was the namesake of several earlier Montreal teams. These teams each only lasted one year throughout the latter portion of the 19th Century. The first had played in the Montreal Winter Carnival hockey tournament in 1884. Another was an independent team that played various challenges in 1893. A third played in the Independent Amateur Hockey League in 1895, while a fourth played in the Cyclists Interclub Hockey League in 1897. The Wanderers were created in December 1903, played their first league game

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1024-402: Was welcomed immediately by the public, who followed his performance that season with intense adoration. For the rest of his life, Robinson remained grateful to the people of Montreal for making the city a welcoming oasis for him and his wife during that difficult 1946 season. They lived in an apartment in a white neighbourhood of Montreal that summer. Robinson then left to play for the Dodgers

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