Hello again readers, and I'm back from my research! So to continue where I left off in the last post, I found this great website; "History of Ice Hockey." History of Ice Hockey. Web. <http://www.theuhl.com/history-of-ice-hockey/>., and it provided me with great material; I was also able to find a little info from the site I referenced in the last post. I discovered that the first ever ice hockey team was started by a group of Canadian students at McGill University in 1877, and the organization was named the McGill University Hockey Club (MUHC). Some crucial and official rules that the MUHC set up were that the goal posts were 8 feet apart, there were 7 players per team, and each game consisted of two 30 minute periods. After the formation of a few more teams, a "world championship" was held annually starting in 1883 at Montreal's Winter Carnival. The winning team of this event won a special trophy called the Carnival Cup. In 1886, the Winter Carnival teams decided to organize themselves a bit more, and this led to the formation of the Amateur Hockey Association (AHA) of Canada. A similar movement also happened back in Europe; in 1885 the Oxford University Ice Hockey Club became the first ice hockey organization in Europe, where 4 college teams competed yearly to win the Carr-Harris Cup. Well it's very late so I should get some sleep and I have basically finished this part of ice hockey's history; next Tuesday I have scheduled to discuss the origins of the original Stanley Cup. Until then, good night everyone!
The old photograph shown below depicts the McGill University Hockey Club.
