Coloured Hockey League
| Coloured Hockey League | |
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| Sport | Ice hockey |
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| Continent | North America |
The Coloured Hockey League was an all-black ice hockey league founded in Nova Scotia in 1895,[1] which featured teams from across Canada's Maritime Provinces.[2][3] The league operated for several decades lasting until 1930.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]
With as many as a dozen teams, over 400 African Canadian players from across Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island participated in competition.[13] The Coloured Hockey League is credited by some as being the first league to allow the goaltender to leave his feet to cover a puck in 1900. This practice was not permitted elsewhere until the formation of the National Hockey League in 1917. In their book Black Ice: The Lost History of the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes, 1895-1925, historians George and Darril Fosty state that the first player to use the slapshot was Eddie Martin of the Halifax Eureka in 1906.[14][9][15]
References
- ↑ Black hockey hall of fame proposed for Dartmouth, CBC Sports, August 26, 2006
- ↑ (2009-03-26) Multiple Lenses: Voices from the Diaspora located in Canada, 82. Retrieved on 2016-10-26.
- ↑ "Black ice hockey players helped revolutionize the game | Our Weekly | Black News and Entertainment Los Angeles". Our Weekly. http://ourweekly.com/news/2016/feb/25/black-ice-hockey-players-helped-revolutionize-game/#.V2t6nGulbMI.twitter. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
- ↑ Wyshynski, Greg, The real roots of hockey, thefourthperiod.com, September 12, 2006
- ↑ "“Everything has a soul, and hockey is no different” – The Varsity". 2016-03-14. http://thevarsity.ca/2016/03/14/everything-has-a-soul-and-hockey-is-no-different/. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
- ↑ Bob Dawson. "Report : Panel Discussions on Aspects of Black Hockey and the Black Ice Project" (PDF). https://www.smu.ca/webfiles/7Dawson.pdf. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
- ↑ "NHL, Worry About Rigid Racial Lines Before Climate Change | Rachel Décoste". 2014-07-24. http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/rachel-decoste/hockey-and-race_b_5617528.html. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
- ↑ "Greg Wyshynski :: NHL Hockey Rumors, Trades, Breaking News and more". The Fourth Period. 2007-01-07. http://www.thefourthperiod.com/columnists/wyshynski060912.html. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Drake, Matt (2014-03-28). "Being black in the NHL: From breaking the colour barrier to the Norris trophy - Eyes On The Prize". http://www.habseyesontheprize.com/2014/3/28/5493088/the-history-of-black-players-in-the-nhl. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
- ↑ "Black league significant in history | The Chronicle Herald". 2012-07-12. http://thechronicleherald.ca/sports/116216-black-league-significant-in-history. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
- ↑ Joe Lapointe. "On eve of NHL draft, Seth Jones poised to take hockey to new heights". Retrieved on 2016-10-26.
- ↑ Cecil Harris. Breaking the Ice: The Black Experience in Professional Hockey, 195. Retrieved on 2016-10-26.
- ↑ Martins, Daniel, Hockey historian credits black player with first slapshot, CanWest News Service, January 31, 2007
- ↑ Drake, Matt (28 March 2014). "Being black in the NHL". http://www.habseyesontheprize.com/2014/3/28/5493088/the-history-of-black-players-in-the-nhl. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
- ↑ C. Keith Harrison, Ed.D; Brad Brady, M.A., M.S.; Philip E. Hamilton, B.A.; Alicia Valdez, B.A.. "Hockey: Barriers to Crossing the Color Line: the Neglected Story of the Pioneering Players" (DOC). http://www.umich.edu/~paulball/webpage%20papers/Hockey.doc. Retrieved 2016-10-28.
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