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The Birmingham Amateur Ice Hockey League began play at the Parad-Ice Rink in the Birmingham, Alabama suburb of Irondale in November 1955.

Results

1955-56

• 11/20: Parad-Ice Pucksters - Shades Valley Rebels 12:4
• 11/27: Shades Valley Rebels - Irondale Merchants 7:6
• 12/4: Parad-Ice Pucksters - Irondale Merchants 10:5
• 12/11: Shades Valley Rebels beat Parad-Ice Pucksters
• 12/18: Irondale Merchants - Shades Valley Rebels 9:3
• 12/27: Parad-Ice Pucksters - Irondale Merchants 6:5
• 1/3: Parad-Ice Pucksters - Shades Valley Rebels 12:8
• 1/10: Irondale Merchants - Parad-Ice Pucksters 14:7
• 1/17: Shades Valley Rebels - Irondale Merchants 11:10
• 1/26: Parad-Ice Pucksters - Irondale Merchants 9:8
• 2/2: Shades Valley Rebels - Parad-Ice Pucksters 9:7
• 2/9: Shades Valley Rebels - Irondale Merchants 15:14
• 2/16: Shades Valley - Parad-Ice
• 2/23: Irondale Merchants - Parad-Ice Pucksters 10:9
• 3/1: Shades Valley Rebels - Parad-Ice Pucksters 13:8 - final, game one
• 3/8: Parad-Ice Pucksters - Shades Valley Rebels 13:11 - final, game two
• 3/15: Shades Valley Rebels - Parad-Ice Pucksters 12:11 OT - final, game three

Other games

• Memphis All-Stars - Birmingham All-Stars 12:4
• 2/18: Memphis All-Stars beat Birmingham All-Stars @ Memphis
• 2/26: Birmingham All-Stars - Atlanta All-Stars 12:7 @ Birmingham
• 3/3: Birmingham All-Stars - Memphis All-Stars 7:3 @ Memphis

1956-57

No league games were reported in the Birmingham News for 1956-57, although it is known the Birmingham All-Stars faced the Memphis All-Stars on December 8, 1956.

1957-58

• Maroons - Hawks 12:11
• 12/22: Maroons - Aces 12:11
• 12/29: Maroons - Hawks 16:6
• 1/5: Aces - Hawks 21:6
• 1/12: Maroons beat Aces
• 1/19: Hawks - Maroons 17:13
• 1/26: Aces - Hawks 13:12
• 2/2: Aces - Maroons 13:12
• 2/9: Hawks - Maroons 8:7
• 2/16: Aces - Hawks 12:5

Standings as of 2/10

1. Maroons 5-3 106:80
2. Aces 4-4 95:93
3. Hawks 3-5 77:109

• 2/23: Aces - Maroons 14:8 - final, game one
• 3/2: Maroons - Aces 12:9 - final, game two
• 3/9: Maroons - Aces 8:7 - final, game three

1959

It was reported that there were plans to form an all-star team to play an all-star team from Auburn and Columbus, GA on February 22.

• 2/8: Maroons - Aces 13:12 - season opener

No other games from this season were reported.

1960

It was reported that there were plans to arrange games with teams from Memphis, TN, Atlanta, GA, and Durham, NC.

• 1/10: Irondale Merchants - Sims Paper Co. 12:9
• 1/17: Irondale Merchants - Fontaine Trucking 12:2
• 1/24: Sims Paper Co. - Fontaine Trucking 7:4
• 1/31: Sims Paper Co. - Irondale Merchants 11:7
• 2/7: Irondale Merchants - Fontaine Trucking 9:8
• 2/14: Sims Paper Co. - Fontaine Trucking 14:7
• 2/21: Sims Paper Co. beat Irondale Merchants
• 2/28: Irondale Merchants - Fontaine Trucking 12:8
• 3/6: Sims Paper Co. - Fontaine Trucking 14:7 - Sims earned the right to meet Georgia Tech in a best of 3 series (was this actually referring to the final series against Irondale?)
• 3/13: Sims Paper Co. - Irondale Merchants 13:4 - final, game one
• 3/20: Sims Paper Co. - Irondale Merchants Forfeit - final, game two - Irondale had to forfeit due to test work at Georgia Tech, where some of their players were in school

Huntsville

The Ice Palace opened in Huntsville in 1961 and the local YMCA organized a league for boys aged 8-12 in January 1963. The Nashville Dixie Flyers of the Eastern Hockey League came to Huntsville on January 29, giving an exhibition and demonstrating the basics of the game. Blossomwood won the YMCA League title, defeating University Park in the final. Fred Hudson played an important role in developing the league and was awarded the William Thayer Tutt Award for his efforts in 2018. The Huntsville Amateur Hockey Association was eventually formed and the University of Alabama-Huntsville established a club team in 1979, which, after brief stints at the NAIA and Division II levels, jumped to Division I by 1988.

Mem

Kemmons Wilson, a prominent motel and home builder, constructed a 6,000 seat rink at the Midsouth Fairgrounds in Memphis in 1955. Two exhibition games were set to be played at the facility on April 16, 1955, between the Buffalo Bisons and Pittsburgh Hornets of the American Hockey League. They were called off due to poor ice conditions, the ice making equipment unable to cope with the 82 degree temperatures outside. However, a game was played the next day, and 6,500 fans watched Pittsburgh edge Buffalo 8-7.

There were hopes that Memphis would be able to land a franchise in the professional International Hockey League. This did not materialize, but Memphis did have an amateur team playing games by the 1955-56 season, which is known to have faced teams from St. Louis and Birmingham.

1956

• 2/25: Memphis All-Stars - St. Louis Amateurs 12:9 @ Memphis
• 12/8: Memphis All-Stars - Birmingham All-Stars @ Memphis

On February 7, 1958, it was reported that the Birmingham All-Stars were set to play in Memphis on the 9th. It was noted that the Memphis All-Stars were 6-2 overall against Birmingham over the previous three years and had beaten Tulsa, Louisville, St. Louis, Green Bay, Indianapolis, and Chicago already in 1957-58.

Memphis again sought entry into the International Hockey League prior to the 1958-59 season, and had appointed Jim Matson as general manager and Ted Garvin as coach. Both men were from Sarnia, Ontario. It was mentioned that if the IHL application was refused, the team would play a series of exhibition games instead.

GA

An ice skating rink, located in the administration building at Lakewood Park, opened in Atlanta on November 12, 1955. A team known as the Atlanta All-Stars played the Birmingham All-Stars at the Parad-Ice rink in Alabama on February 26, 1956, losing 12-7. There was also a passage that appeared in the Raleigh News and Observer on May 16, 1956, stating that "A hockey game at Georgia Tech this year was the first in history here. It was promoted and organized by two Canadian students."