1888 Maritimes season
This was the 1888 ice hockey season in the Canadian Maritimes:
Nova Scotia
A meeting of the Halifax Royal Blue hockey club was held on January 13, 1888. The following officers were elected: Capt. A.S. Thompson (re-elected), Vice-capt. J.J. O'Bryan (re-elected), Sec'y R.B. Elliott. Managing committee: C.W. Kelly, John O'Bryan, and A.S. Smith, with the officers ex officio. At the Snow Shoe drive, scheduled for next Wednesday, a match was to be played between the association and the Snow Shoe club, teams to be captained by Thompson and O'Brien respectively.[1] It was postponed to January 21. No mention was made of a hockey game. The first documented hockey game in Windsor was played on February 21, 1888.
- 1/7: Dartmouth Knockabouts - Halifax Britannias 0:0[2]
- 1/27: Dartmouth Chebuctos beat Dartmouth Knockabouts[3]
- 2/15: Dartmouth Chebuctos - Halifax Wanderers 5:0[4]
Chebuctos roster: J. Young (captain), C. Patterson, Walter Faulkner, F. Young. W. Graham, J. Hyde, George Pyke. Wanderers roster: W.A. Henry (captain), L.J. Fuller, H. Wylde, W. Neal, H. Hart, W.A. Duffus, F. Salter.
- 2/20: Dartmouth Knockabouts - Halifax Britannias @ Dartmouth[5]
- King's College School - Dartmouth Ramblers[6]
- 2/29: Dartmouth Chebuctos - Halifax Royal Blues 6:2 @ Dartmouth[7]
- 3/7: Dartmouth Chebuctos - Dalhousie University[8]
- 3/12: Halifax Royal Blues - Dartmouth Knockabouts 2:1 @ Dartmouth[9]
- 3/14: Halifax Wanderers - Halifax Royal Blues 3:2 OT[10]
Wanderers roster: Henry, Neal, Oxley, Jarvis, Hart, Salter, Wylde. Royal Blues roster: Thompson, McInnis, Creighton, Bishop, Kelly, Brady, Egan.
- 3/15: Windsor Hockey Club - Dartmouth Chebuctos 3:3 @ Windsor[11]
Windsor roster: R. Fleming (capt.), F.W. Dimock, F. Lynch, L McCallum, Grant Goudge, G. Travis, F. Wilson. Chebuctos roster: J. Hyde (capt.), C. Patterson, W. Faulkner, J.E. Brown, Frank Young, Walter Graham, G. Pyke.
- 3/16: Bank of Montreal - Merchants' Bank 5:2 - Duffus and Jarvis of BoM and Clarke and McKay of Merchants' played well @ Halifax[11]
- 3/19: Halifax Wanderers - Dartmouth Knockabouts 4:0[12]
Wanderers roster: W.A. Henry (capt.), W.A. Duffus, G.C. Hart, E.W. Jarvis, W.H. Neal Jr., H.M. Wylde, G.A. Taylor. Knockabouts roster: G.D. Wilson (capt.), Jas. T. Dustan, G.R. Fairbanks, J.L. Wilson, E. Elliot, A.W.F. McKay, P.J. Strong.
- 3/21: Halifax Wanderers - Dalhousie University - cancelled due to poor ice[13]
Contemporary accounts
Dartmouth Chebuctos
The March 12, 1888, edition of the Halifax Herald.
References
- ↑ Halifax Herald, 1888-01-14
- ↑ Acadian Recorder, 1888-01-09
- ↑ Halifax Herald, 1888-01-28
- ↑ Acadian Recorder, 1888-02-16
- ↑ Halifax Daily Echo, 1888-02-20
- ↑ Windsor, Nova Scotia - The Birthplace of Hockey? - Bill Fitsell
- ↑ Halifax Daily Echo, 1888-03-01
- ↑ Halifax Herald, 1888-03-12
- ↑ Halifax Daily Echo, 1888-03-13
- ↑ Halifax Daily Echo, 1888-03-15
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Halifax Daily Echo, 1888-03-17
- ↑ Halifax Daily Echo, 1888-03-20
- ↑ Halifax Daily Echo, 1888-03-21