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<big>'''[[The International Hockey Journal]]'''</big><br/> Volume 1 · No. 1 · January 2017


Passion and Purity: The Story of Inter-War European Hockey
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<center><span style="color:#FF0000">'''Additional information is available on this competition!'''</span></center>
We hope you enjoy reading our article on the 1930 World Ice Hockey Championships. If you are interested, we also have a document featuring additional photographs, game summaries, player statistics and scoring information, available to download for a small fee. Please see this link for pricing and ordering details!
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Hockey in Europe developed rapidly and experienced tremendous growth during the Inter-War (1918-1939) era, becoming a popular winter pastime for individuals of all backgrounds. During the early 19th century, prior to World War I, ice hockey in Europe was predominantly an upper-class sport. [[Gustave Lanctot]] of the [[Oxford Canadians]] described European hockey of the pre-war era as a "sport of nobles at which spectators wore full evening dress and dined sumptuously at candlelit, rink-side tables; the referees wore black tie and smoking jackets", concluding that it was "certainly not a people's game" in the continent.  
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| 1. || align="left"| Jahn Cernauti || 4
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| 3. || align="left"| Dragos Voda Cernauti || 4
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| 4. || align="left"| Dovbusch Cernauti || 4
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| 5. || align="left"| Polonia Cernauti || 4
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After the war, Europe was in shambles, and hockey was mostly an afterthought until the [[1920 Summer Olympics]] in Antwerp. [[Germany]] was banned from international play until 1926, and the hockey infrastructure in [[Great Britain]] had been eviscerated, with very little activity taking place in the country during the first half of the decade. Pre-war stalwarts [[Belgium]], [[Czechoslovakia]] (formerly Bohemia), [[France]], and [[Switzerland]] remained relevant, and were joined by a new European power - [[Sweden]].
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The Swedes had played bandy until being introduced to hockey with a puck by American film director [[Raoul Le Mat]] in 1920. They quickly picked up the new sport and won [[Ice Hockey European Championship 1921|European gold]] in 1921. North Americans had significant influence on the development of European hockey during the 1920s. [[Blake Watson]] both played and coached in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and Czechoslovakia, and his playing style was emulated by many of the continent's rising stars. The Canadian senior teams who toured Europe and played in the World Championships and Olympics also helped popularize the sport and provided the Europeans with valuable knowledge, although they were often criticized for rough play - the European game was more graceful and skilled than violent.
February 3 - Gardista
 
*'''Klagenfurter AC''' - Villach-Leoben 11:0
By the end of the decade, hockey had also spread to [[Bulgaria]], [[Finland]], [[Hungary]], [[Italy]], [[Latvia]], [[Lithuania]], [[Poland]], and the [[Netherlands]]. It was also played briefly in [[Spain]], starting in 1923, but soon fizzled. The hockey "boom" started in earnest around 1930, as numerous clubs began springing up across Europe and interest in the sport skyrocketed. Most hockey teams were part of a multi-sport club, which featured numerous different sections, or in some cases, a more specialized "winter sports club". Many players competed in multiple sports with their club.
*'''Klagenfurter AC''' - Villach-Leoben 10:2
 
Numerous regional domestic competitions were played throughout the continent, especially in Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, and Poland. The championships were divided by city, region, and even ethnicity - there was an [[German Association Championship|ethnic German]] competition staged in Czechoslovakia. The teams playing in these championships all had the opportunity to advance and compete in the national championship, provided they win the regional title. In the days of closed professional leagues with fixed numbers of teams, it is a very romantic notion to envision players taking to the ice across Europe, harboring dreams of advancing to compete for national glory.
 
Hockey in Inter-War Europe was almost entirely an amateur sport, with most players having to earn a living outside of hockey. However, this was not the case in Great Britain, where numerous large arenas opened and teams were stocked with professional players, many of whom were Canadian. The [[English National League]] was formed as a professional competition in 1935, and the [[Scottish National League (1929–1954)|Scottish National League]], which had once been a fully-amateur Glasgow-based competition, soon followed suit. Britain rode a roster stocked with Canadian-trained players to a [[1936 Winter Olympics|1936 Olympic]] title.
 
There were few indoor rinks in Europe during this time period, with most games being played outside on artificial (specifically designed for skating) rinks. This left the sport at the mercy of the weather in most places. The seasons were short and generally began in December, with domestic competitions commencing in earnest in January. There were numerous tournaments played over the Christmas holidays, including the famous [[Spengler Cup|Spengler]] and [[Tatra Cup]]s, which are still contested to this day. The Olympics and World Championships were staged in February, with the hockey season winding down by March. A very mild winter in 1936 significantly disrupted play throughout the continent.
 
Aside from Britain's plethora of indoor facilities, there were several in Belgium, as well as the [[Berliner Sportpalast]] in Germany, [[Lindarängen Isladen]] in Sweden, and the [[Palazzo del Ghiaccio]] in Italy. The cavernous [[Vélodrome d'Hiver]] opened in Paris in 1931, a crucial development in Inter-War French hockey; prior to then the main source of ice was outdoors in Chamonix, perched high atop the Alps.
 
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Latest revision as of 13:27, 30 June 2017

Additional information is available on this competition!

We hope you enjoy reading our article on the 1930 World Ice Hockey Championships. If you are interested, we also have a document featuring additional photographs, game summaries, player statistics and scoring information, available to download for a small fee. Please see this link for pricing and ordering details!

Date Teams Score
Are terrible.
1. Jahn Cernauti 4
Are terrible.
3. Dragos Voda Cernauti 4
Are terrible.
4. Dovbusch Cernauti 4
Are terrible.
5. Polonia Cernauti 4
1945

February 3 - Gardista

  • Klagenfurter AC - Villach-Leoben 11:0
  • Klagenfurter AC - Villach-Leoben 10:2
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