The Ottawa Cliffsides were a senior ice hockey team that played in the Inter-Provincial Amateur Hockey Union from 1908 to 1911. Prior to that, from 1905 to 1908, they competed in the Ottawa City Senior League .
16-904: They were the first winner of the Allan Cup in 1909 when the cup was given to the winner of the Inter-Provincial Hockey League. Alf Smith coached the Ottawa Cliffsides to win the first Allan Cup in March 1909, only to lose it to Queen's University in a challenge. The Cliffsides played for only three seasons in the Inter-Provincial league. They then reappeared in the Ottawa City Senior League in 1919–20 before disappearing for good. This article related to sport in Canada
32-507: A series of national playoffs. Starting in 1920, the Allan Cup champion team would represent Canada in amateur play at the Olympics and World Championships. The CAHA used the profits from Allan Cup games as a subsidy for the national team. Competition for the cup was originally a one-game format, then a two-game total goals format. In 1925, CAHA leaders Silver Quilty and Frank Sandercock , changed
48-516: Is Thunder Bay with 10, including four won as Port Arthur before the city's amalgamation. The original Cup has been retired to the Hockey Hall of Fame , and a replica is presented to the champions. Listed are all of the challenges of the early years of the Allan Cup, bolded are the final winner of the season. This is a list of champions by province, territory, or state. (*) Two championships won by teams from Lloydminster are included only in
64-488: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Allan Cup The Allan Cup is the trophy awarded annually to the senior ice hockey champions of Canada . It was donated by Sir Montagu Allan of Ravenscrag, Montreal , and has been competed for since 1909. It was won by the Dundas Real McCoys in 2024 . In 1908, a split occurred in the competition of ice hockey in Canada. The top amateur teams left
80-695: The Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association , which allowed professionals, to form the new Inter-Provincial Amateur Hockey Union (IPAHU), a purely amateur league. The trustees of the Stanley Cup decided that the Cup would be awarded to the professional ice champion, meaning there was no corresponding trophy for the amateur championship of Canada. The Allan Cup was donated in early 1909 by Montreal businessman and Montreal Amateur Athletic Association president Sir H. Montagu Allan to be presented to
96-731: The Alexander Cup competition was retired after 1954. The reigning Allan Cup champion was usually chosen to represent Canada in ice hockey at the Olympic Games or the Ice Hockey World Championships . The practice lasted from 1920 to 1964, when Father David Bauer established a permanent Canada men's national ice hockey team . Since 1984 the Allan Cup has been competed for by teams in the Senior AAA category. Although interest in senior ice hockey has diminished over its history,
112-542: The Cup quickly came to appreciate the difficulties of organizing a national competition in so large a country. In 1914, at the suggestion of one of the trustees, Claude C. Robinson , the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA) was formed as a national governing body for the sport with W. F. Taylor as its first president. One of the CAHA's first decisions, in 1915, was to replace the challenge system with
128-506: The Cup retains an important place in Canadian ice hockey. The Cup championship is determined in an annual tournament held in the city or town of a host team, playing off against regional champions. The Cup has been won by teams from every province and from Yukon , as well as by two teams from the United States which played in Canadian leagues. The city with the most Allan Cup championships
144-659: The amateur champions of Canada. It was to be ruled like the Stanley Cup had, passed by champion to champion by league championship or challenge. Three trustees were named to administer the trophy: Sir Edward Clouston, President of the Bank of Montreal , Dr. H. B. Yates of McGill University , (donor of the Yates Cup to the Intercollegiate Rugby Union in 1898) and Graham Drinkwater , four-time Stanley Cup champion. The trophy
160-399: The cup to the CAHA, and establish an Allan Cup committee which included trustee William Northey . In February 1945, CAHA president Frank Sargent announced the cancellation of the 1945 Allan Cup playoffs. It was the first season in which the trophy was not contested since the inaugural 1909 Allan Cup . The cancellation was caused by the reluctance to travel during wartime conditions, and
176-562: The famous Montreal Forum . From 1947 to 1956 he served as vice president with Montreal. He spent the 1956–57 season as President of the Montreal Canadiens . The Canadiens were sold to the Molson Family in the summer of 1957, and Northey retired from hockey. His name was engraved on the Stanley Cup three times in 1953, 1956, and 1957. Northey was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1947. On November 25, 1922, Northey survived
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#1732848010605192-452: The format to a best-of-three series due to increased popularity of the games and demand for a longer series. At the CAHA general meeting in March 1927, W. A. Fry requested to have the CAHA take control of the Allan Cup and its profits from the trustees, and use the funds to build amateur hockey in Canada. He felt the move justified as the CAHA had evolved and was able to manage its own affairs. His motion asked for H. Montagu Allan to donate
208-421: The players' need to work rather than playing hockey. In 1951, the CAHA set up a "major league" of competition from the semi-pro and professional senior leagues. The leagues would no longer compete for the Allan Cup, but would compete for the new Alexander Cup . The Allan Cup would be competed for on a more purely amateur basis from teams in smaller centres of Canada. The major league concept broke up by 1953, and
224-599: The total for Saskatchewan. William Northey (ice hockey) William Mitchell Northey (April 29, 1872 – August 9, 1963), was an executive in the National Hockey League . Born in Leeds, Quebec , Northey became secretary at the Montreal Hockey Club in 1893. He would help lead the team to two Stanley Cups . In 1909, he helped convince ice hockey executives to change two rules still in place today. The first
240-692: Was originally presented to the Victoria Hockey Club of Montreal , Quebec, members of the IPAHU, to award to the champions of the IPAHU. The first IPAHU champion, and by extension, first winner of the Cup was the Ottawa Cliffsides hockey club. After the season, the Cliffsides were defeated in the first-ever challenge by the Queen's University hockey club of Kingston, Ontario . In the early years, trustees of
256-540: Was the change from a game consisting of two 30-minute halves to three 20-minute periods. He was also instrumental in the decision to discontinue the rover position . The number of players on the ice per team was dropped to six. Northey formed the Canadian Arena Company and was instrumental in building Arena Gardens in Toronto, and owned Montreal Arena , which burned down in 1918. In 1924, Northey helped construct
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