The Pittsburgh Lyceum Club , or Pittsburgh Lyceum , was a professional ice hockey team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania . It was a member of the Western Pennsylvania Hockey League from 1907 to 1908 and played all of its games at Duquesne Garden .
7-597: After the WPHL was revived for the 1907–08 season , it was determined that two new teams would be needed so that the league could return to its four-team format. That season, the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Lyceum entered the league. During its brief time in the WPHL, the Lyceum team included several notable players such as Jack Marks , Tommy Smith and Garnet Sixsmith . Marks, however, only played in three games for
14-746: A team representing Pittsburgh competed in the International Professional Hockey League (IPHL). Four Pittsburgh-area teams made up the revived WPHL, in which all games were played at the Duquesne Gardens . Old WPHL teams Pittsburgh Athletic Club and the Pittsburgh Bankers resumed play in the league. Two teams were added to the league, the Pittsburgh Pirates and a team representing the Pittsburgh Lyceum . The season concluded with
21-699: The Lyceum before he jumped to the Ontario Professional Hockey League (OPHL), eventually playing in the Toronto Professional Hockey Club's Stanley Cup challenge. Meanwhile, Sixsmith reportedly scored eleven goals in a game in Pittsburgh, which was considered to be a record for Duquesne Garden. Lyceum player Tommy Smith was later inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame . In its first year of play,
28-430: The Lyceum posted an 11–5–1 record, earning second place in the standings. Unable to rely on a stable line-up, due to the number of league players changing contracts, the Lyceum was forced to fold on December 23, 1908. The WPHL then discontinued after the 1908–09 season . The broader Lyceum organization, which continued to exist as a multi-sport club , formed another hockey team for the winter of 1920–21 and placed it in
35-632: The Pittsburgh Amateur Hockey League. The team tied for third in the six-team league with a 4–5 record. Members of the Hockey Hall of Fame who played for the Lyceum: 1908 WPHL season The 1907–08 WPHL season was the eighth season of operation for the Western Pennsylvania Hockey League (WPHL) and the first since the league went dormant in 1904. In the intervening three seasons,
42-569: The Pittsburgh Bankers having the best record in the league and being named league champions. It was the team's second league title. The season saw some of the first, if not the first, recorded trades involving professional hockey players. The Bankers traded Dutch Koch to Lyceum for Harry Burgoyne in December 1907, then in early January reacquired Koch from Lyceum in exchange for Fred Young. A bigger trade took place on January 27, with
49-675: The Pittsburgh Pirates sending James MacKay, Edgar Dey and Dunc Taylor to the Bankers in exchange for Joseph Donnelly and Bert Bennett. On January 31 the Pirates also acquired Gordon McGuire from the Bankers through a purchase. Source: Fitzsimmons, p. 415 The Bankers played a "World's Series" with the Montreal Wanderers . The Wanderers won the series two games to one. This ice hockey league article
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