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{{Infobox sports season
| title = 1901 CAHL season
| color =
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| league = [[Canadian Amateur Hockey League]]
| sport = [[ice hockey]]
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| duration = January 5, 1901 – March 5, 1901
| no_of_teams = 5
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| season = 1901
| season_champs =
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| league_champs = [[Ottawa Senators (original)|Ottawa Hockey Club]]
| league_champ_name = Champion
| second_place =
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| Cup_MVP =
| Cup_MVP_link =
| top_scorer = Russell Bowie (24 goals)
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| seasonslist = [[Canadian Amateur Hockey League]]
| seasonslistnames = CAHL
| prevseason_link = [[1900 CAHL season]]
| prevseason_year = [[1900 CAHL season|1900]]
| altseason_link =
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| nextseason_link = [[1902 CAHL season]]
| nextseason_year = [[1902 CAHL season|1902]]
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The '''1901 [[Canadian Amateur Hockey League]] (CAHL) season''' was the third season of the senior ice hockey league. Teams played an eight-game schedule. The [[Ottawa Senators (original)|Ottawa Hockey Club]] was the league champion with a record of seven wins, no losses and a draw. The [[Montreal Shamrocks]] lost a [[Stanley Cup]] challenge during the season, so Ottawa did not inherit the Stanley Cup. The Club declined to challenge Winnipeg after the season.

==League business==
{{Emergence of the NHL}}

===Executive===
* George R. James, Montreal (President)
* D. Watson, Quebec (1st Vice-President)
* J. W. Smith, Ottawa ( 2nd Vice-President)
* J. S. Bishop, Victorias (Secretary-Treasurer)
* C. Hart (Councillor)

The league adopted travelling expenses of $85 between Ottawa-Montreal, $100 between Montreal-Quebec and $125 between Ottawa-Quebec for the visiting teams to receive from the home team.

The league banned member teams from playing exhibition matches outside the league without league permission.

==Regular season==

===Highlights===

The Ottawa club would win the season, undefeated, with players Sixsmith, Westwick and Pulford starring.

===Final standing===

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Team
! Games Played
! Wins
! Losses
! Ties
! Goals For
! Goals Against
|-
| [[Ottawa Senators (original)|Ottawa Hockey Club]]
| <center>8</center>
| <center>7</center>
| <center>0</center>
| <center>1</center>
| <center>33</center>
| <center>20</center>
|-
| [[Montreal Victorias]]
| <center>8</center>
| <center>4</center>
| <center>3</center>
| <center>1</center>
| <center>45</center>
| <center>32</center>
|-
| [[Montreal Shamrocks]]
| <center>8</center>
| <center>4</center>
| <center>4</center>
| <center>0</center>
| <center>30</center>
| <center>25</center>
|-
| [[Montreal Hockey Club]]
| <center>8</center>
| <center>3</center>
| <center>5</center>
| <center>0</center>
| <center>28</center>
| <center>37</center>
|-
| [[Quebec Bulldogs|Quebec Hockey Club]]
| <center>8</center>
| <center>1</center>
| <center>7</center>
| <center>0</center>
| <center>21</center>
| <center>43</center>
|-
|}

Although Ottawa won the league championship, the Shamrocks had lost their challenge to Winnipeg and Ottawa would not be awarded the Cup. At first, Ottawa was intending to challenge Winnipeg for the Cup, but on February 27, 1901, announced that they would not do so that winter.<ref>{{Cite news |newspaper=The Globe |date=February 28, 1901 |title=Ottawa will not challenge |pages=10 |postscript=}}</ref> According to Coleman(1966), Ottawa did not issue a challenge due to the "lateness of the season."<ref>{{cite book|title=The Trail of the Stanley Cup, Vol. 1, 1893–1926, inc.|last=Coleman|first=Charles|pages=62|year=1966}}</ref> The ''Ottawa Journal'' as reported in ''The Globe'' suggested that the Ottawa club was wise in their decision, as they were in "racked condition in which they are, as a result of the immensely hard exertions put forth by them in all their games this season".<ref>{{Cite news |newspaper=The Globe |date=March 2, 1901 |pages=25 |title=Sound reasons for waiting |postscript=}}</ref> The Ottawa Hockey Club did not challenge the following season, either.

==Stanley Cup challenges==

===Shamrocks vs. Winnipeg===

In January 1901, the [[Winnipeg Victorias]] of the [[Manitoba Hockey Association|MHA]] again challenged the Montreal Shamrocks for the Cup. This time, Winnipeg prevailed, sweeping the best-of-three series with scores of 4–3 and 2–1. Game two was the first overtime game in Cup history with Dan Bain scoring at the four-minute mark of the extra period.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! width="120" | Date
! width="160" | Winning Team
! width="5" | Score
! width="160" | Losing Team
! width="145" | Location
! Notes
|-
|January 29, 1901||[[Winnipeg Victorias]]||align="center"|4–3||[[Montreal Shamrocks]]||rowspan="2"|Montreal Arena
|-
|January 31, 1901||[[Winnipeg Victorias]]||align="center"|2–1||[[Montreal Shamrocks]]||4:00, OT
|-
!colspan="6" style="text-align:left;"|Winnipeg wins best-of-three series 2 games to 0
|}

{| cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 border=0
|+ January 29
|- bgcolor=#cccccc
! width=140 | Winnipeg
! 4
! width=30| at
!width=140| Shamrocks
! 3
|-
|Art Brown || ||align=center| G || James H. McKenna || ||
|-
|Rod Flett || ||align=center| P ||Mike Grant || ||
|-
|Magnus Flett || ||align=center| CP ||Frank Wall || 1 ||
|-
|Tony Gingras || 1 ||align=center| F ||Harry Trihey || ||
|-
|Dan Bain || 1 ||align=center| F ||Jack P. Brannen || 1 ||
|-
|Charles Johnston || ||align=center| F ||Fred Scanlan || ||
|-
|Burke Wood || 2 ||align=center| F ||Arthur Farrell || 1 ||
|-
|Fred Chadham || ||align=center| sub || || ||
|-
|colspan=5 align=center|Referee – H. Baird<br>Umpires – A. McKerrow, Dickie Boon
|-
|}

{| cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 border=0
|+ January 31
|- bgcolor=#cccccc
! width=140 | Winnipeg
! 2
! width=30| at
!width=140| Shamrocks
! 1
|-
|Art Brown || ||align=center| G ||James H. McKenna || ||
|-
|Rod Flett || ||align=center| P ||Mike Grant || ||
|-
|Magnus Flett || ||align=center| CP ||Frank Wall || ||
|-
|Tony Gingras || ||align=center| F ||Harry Trihey || 1 ||
|-
|Dan Bain || 2 ||align=center| F ||Jack P. Brannen || ||
|-
|Charles Johnston || ||align=center| F ||Fred Scanlon || ||
|-
|Burke Wood || ||align=center| F ||Arthur Farrell || ||
|-
|Fred Chadham || ||align=center| sub || || ||
|-
|colspan=5 align=center|Referee – H. Baird<br>Umpires – A. McKerrow, Dickie Boon
|-
|}

==Schedule and results==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Month
! Day
! Visitor
! Score
! Home
! Score
|-
|rowspan=9 valign=top| Jan.
|| 5 || Quebec || 4 || '''Ottawa''' || 5
|-
| 5 || Montreal || 2 || '''Victorias''' || 3
|-
| 12 || '''Ottawa''' || 4 || Shamrocks || 2
|-
| 16 || '''Shamrocks''' || 3 || Montreal || 2
|-
| 19 || Victorias || 2 || Ottawa || 2 (10' overtime)
|-
| 19 || Quebec || 4 || '''Shamrocks''' || 10
|-
| 21 || '''Montreal''' || 7 || Quebec || 3
|-
| 23 || '''Victorias''' || 4 || Shamrocks || 3
|-
| 26 || '''Ottawa''' || 9 || Montreal || 4
|-
|rowspan=10 valign=top| Feb.

|| 2 || Victorias || 5 || '''Quebec''' || 6
|-
| 2 || Montreal || 3 || '''Ottawa''' || 5
|-
| 9 || '''Shamrocks''' || 2 || Quebec || 1
|-
| 9 || '''Ottawa''' || 5 || Victorias || 4
|-
| 16 || Quebec || 0 || '''Montreal''' || 4
|-
| 16 (†)|| Shamrocks || 1 || '''Ottawa''' || 2 (30' overtime)
|-
| 20 || '''Victorias''' || 13 || Montreal || 3
|-
| 23 || '''Ottawa''' || 1 || Quebec || 0 (20' overtime)
|-
| 23 || '''Montreal''' || 3 || Shamrocks || 1
|-
| 27 || '''Shamrocks''' || 8 || Victorias || 5
|-
|rowspan=1 valign=top| Mar.
|| 2 || Quebec || 3 || '''Victorias''' || 9
|-
|}

† Birthday of the Champion.

==Player statistics==

===Goaltending averages===
Note: GP = Games played, GA = Goals against, SO = Shutouts, GAA = Goals against average
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!style="width:11em"| Name
!style="width:8em"| Club
!style="width:3em"| GP
!style="width:3em"| GA
!style="width:3em"| SO
!style="width:4em"| GAA
|-
|Chittick, Fred
||Ottawa || 1 || 0 || 1 || 0.0
|-
|Lockerby, Archie
||Victorias || 1 || 2 || || 2.0
|-
|Hutton, John Bouse
||Ottawa || 7 || 20 || || 2.9
|-
|McKenna, James H.
||Shamrocks || 8 || 25 || || 3.1
|-
|O'Meara, Mark
||Quebec || 1 || 4 || || 4.0
|-
|Munro, Fred
||Victorias || 7 || 30 || || 4.3
|-
|Nicholson, Billy
||Montreal || 8 || 37 || || 4.6
|-
|Stocking, Frank
||Quebec || 7 || 38 || || 5.4
|-
|}

===Leading scorers===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!width=125| Name
!width=60| Club
! GP
! G
|-
|Russell Bowie
|| Victorias || 7 || 24
|-
| Lorne Campbell
|| Montreal || 7 || 10
|-
|Arthur Farrell
|| Shamrocks || 8 || 10
|-
| Harold Henry
|| Ottawa || 8 || 8
|-
|Blair Russel
|| Victorias || 8 || 8
|-
|Arthur Sixsmith
|| Ottawa || 7 || 7
|-
|Harry Trihey
|| Shamrocks || 7 || 7
|-
| Charlie Liffiton
|| Montreal || 8 || 6
|-
| Harry Westwick
|| Ottawa || 7 || 6
|-
| Edward Stuart
|| Victorias || 5 || 6
|-
| Jack Smith
|| Ottawa || 4 || 6
|-
|}

==See also==
* [[1900–01 MHA season]]
* [[List of Stanley Cup champions]]

==References==
*{{cite book | author=Coleman, Charles L. | title=The Trail of the Stanley Cup, Vol. 1, 1893–1926 inc. |year=1966}}
* {{cite book |author=Podnieks, Andrew |year=2004 |title=Lord Stanley's Cup |publisher=Triumph Books |isbn=1-55168-261-3}}

{{reflist}}

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