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40-761: After the success of the five-time Allan Cup champion Thunder Bay Twins , the Colonial Hockey League (CoHL) took interest in expanding to the Northwestern Ontario city. In 1991, the CoHL introduced the Thunder Bay Thunder Hawks, spelling the end of the 21-year Twins franchise that stepped aside for the new minor professional team. In 1993, the team changed its name to the Thunder Bay Senators to reflect

80-742: A best-of-three series due to public demand. In March 1925, Quilty ordered an intermediate one-game playoff between Fort Frances and the Manitoba champion, but the Manitoba Association refused to play citing that no provision existed for inter-provincial intermediate playoffs. Quilty was unanimously reelected president of the CAHA on March 25, 1925, at the annual general meeting held in the Fort Garry Hotel in Winnipeg. Also at

120-422: A player must be a resident of the place he wishes to play in by May 15, and that player registrations must be filed with CAHA within 15 days of registration with the branch. The CAHA discussed uniformity of playing rules in co-operation with National Hockey League president Frank Calder . Proposed rule changes discussed included elimination of the offside rule at centre ice, substitution of players while game

160-517: A series of national playoffs. Starting in 1920, the Allan Cup champion team would represent Canada in amateur play at the Olympics and World Championships. The CAHA used the profits from Allan Cup games as a subsidy for the national team. Competition for the cup was originally a one-game format, then a two-game total goals format. In 1925, CAHA leaders Silver Quilty and Frank Sandercock , changed

200-522: Is Thunder Bay with 10, including four won as Port Arthur before the city's amalgamation. The original Cup has been retired to the Hockey Hall of Fame , and a replica is presented to the champions. Listed are all of the challenges of the early years of the Allan Cup, bolded are the final winner of the season. This is a list of champions by province, territory, or state. (*) Two championships won by teams from Lloydminster are included only in

240-549: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Allan Cup The Allan Cup is the trophy awarded annually to the senior ice hockey champions of Canada . It was donated by Sir Montagu Allan of Ravenscrag, Montreal , and has been competed for since 1909. It was won by the Dundas Real McCoys in 2024 . In 1908, a split occurred in the competition of ice hockey in Canada. The top amateur teams left

280-606: Is in progress, allow kicking of the hockey puck , reduce the size of ice hockey goaltending equipment , and to allow only two defenders behind the blue line . On March 18, 1926, Quilty declared a forfeit in the early rounds of the eastern Allan Cup playoffs in favour of the Ottawa Gunners from the Ottawa City Hockey League , when St. Francis Xavier of Montreal refused to play a sudden death game necessitated by time constraints caused due to delays in

320-464: The 1908 season , Quilty became the first man to play in the flying wing position, when it was created by Father Stanton that season. Quilty was also the team's kicker and main ball carrier for the 1908 and 1909 seasons . Quilty served as the captain of the Ottawa team for the 1911 season . He graduated from University of Ottawa in 1912 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. On September 12, 1912, it

360-478: The 1925 Allan Cup remained scheduled for Winnipeg, despite the 1925 Stanley Cup Finals being played in Western Canada. Quilty also confirmed that districts were voting on whether to make the Allan Cup final a best two-out-of-three series, or remain two-game total-goals series. Quilty announced Allan Cup and Abbott Cup schedules as a two-game series for 1925, but later switched the Allan Cup playoffs to

400-781: The Amateur Athletic Union of Canada , and was the chairman of its committee for affiliations and alliances for all amateur sports in Canada. In 1933, he received a medal from the CAHA as a past president. In his professional career, Quilty was an insurance company executive and a civil servant in Ottawa. He married Catherine Boyle in Ottawa, circa World War I. The couple had five children together, including three boys and two girls. Quilty's mother Mary died May 14, 1935, at age 92, in Mount St. Patrick, Ontario . His brother J.J. died in October 1944; he had been dean of

440-688: The Canadian Football Hall of Fame . In 1973, he was inducted in the inaugural class of the Ottawa Gee-Gees Football Hall of Fame. Quilty attended the opening of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame building in Hamilton, Ontario , on September 14, 1973, at a mass induction ceremony for all of the previous 38 inductees. In 1975, he was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame , and attended

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480-609: The Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union (CIAU), and then three seasons with the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union (IRFU). He is credited with officiating one or two Grey Cup games depending on the source. The Canadian Press states that he was the referee in control of the 10th Grey Cup played in 1922, whereas an interview with Bob McKenzie specifically mentions that he refereed two Grey Cup games in

520-720: The Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association , which allowed professionals, to form the new Inter-Provincial Amateur Hockey Union (IPAHU), a purely amateur league. The trustees of the Stanley Cup decided that the Cup would be awarded to the professional ice champion, meaning there was no corresponding trophy for the amateur championship of Canada. The Allan Cup was donated in early 1909 by Montreal businessman and Montreal Amateur Athletic Association president Sir H. Montagu Allan to be presented to

560-708: The McGill Redmen football team. After his playing career, he became a football referee and officiated the 10th Grey Cup , and also coached the Ottawa Rough Riders. Quilty was later involved in building ice hockey in the Ottawa area, then served as president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association from 1924 to 1926. He sought to implement uniform playing rules across Canada, and helped bridge disagreements between

600-696: The Ottawa Rough Riders in the IRFU during the 1920 and 1923 seasons. Quilty chose to remain in a coaching role only, despite requests to be a player-coach. Quilty was the founding president of the Ottawa District Hockey Association (ODHA) in 1920, which soon affiliated with the national governing body, the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA). He raised the profile of hockey in Eastern Ontario, and

640-682: The Renfrew Collegiate Institute . At age 16, Quilty enrolled at the University of Ottawa , and joined the Ottawa Gee-Gees football team coached by Father William Stanton. Quilty went on to play with the Gee-Gees football team from 1907 to 1912. In the 1907 season , Quilty played the outside wing position on the team which won the intercollegiate football championship, and the 1907 Yates Cup title. In

680-655: The Toronto Varsity Blues football team on a last-minute fumble in its end zone. In 1912, the Winnipeg Free Press called Quilty "one of the greatest line plungers in the game". In 1930, The Globe and Mail said that. "in his playing days before the war , Quilty was the Lionel Conacher of his time". In a 1966 interview with The Canadian Press , Quilty recalled his playing days by saying, "we often used to make up our plays on

720-596: The 1920s. Canada's Sports Hall of Fame credits him with occasional refereeing "well into the 1920s", and being requested by various teams. Quilty also served on the rules committee for the CIAU and the IRFU. He later served as the president of a local Ottawa football organization. Quilty coached the Ottawa St. Brigid's team in the Ontario Rugby Football Union from 1917 to 1919, then coached

760-763: The Alexander Cup competition was retired after 1954. The reigning Allan Cup champion was usually chosen to represent Canada in ice hockey at the Olympic Games or the Ice Hockey World Championships . The practice lasted from 1920 to 1964, when Father David Bauer established a permanent Canada men's national ice hockey team . Since 1984 the Allan Cup has been competed for by teams in the Senior AAA category. Although interest in senior ice hockey has diminished over its history,

800-568: The CAHA cancel its alliance with the United States Amateur Hockey Association (USAHA) due to persistent disagreements, but Quilty still allowed CAHA teams to play against American colleges not affiliated with the USAHA. The decision was consistent with a ruling earlier that month when Quilty approved exhibition games for Canadian teams against American high schools. The CAHA also updated residency rules, where

840-830: The Catholic Diocese of Pembroke, Ontario , and for 39 years was the parish priest of St. Michael's in Douglas, Ontario . Quilty's son Johnny played in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Canadiens , and the Boston Bruins . Johnny Quilty won the Calder Memorial Trophy as the league's rookie of the year in the 1940–41 NHL season . Johnny Quilty grew up watching the original Ottawa Senators play at home,

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880-418: The Cup quickly came to appreciate the difficulties of organizing a national competition in so large a country. In 1914, at the suggestion of one of the trustees, Claude C. Robinson , the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA) was formed as a national governing body for the sport with W. F. Taylor as its first president. One of the CAHA's first decisions, in 1915, was to replace the challenge system with

920-518: The Cup retains an important place in Canadian ice hockey. The Cup championship is determined in an annual tournament held in the city or town of a host team, playing off against regional champions. The Cup has been won by teams from every province and from Yukon , as well as by two teams from the United States which played in Canadian leagues. The city with the most Allan Cup championships

960-603: The adoption of the Ontario Hockey Association's protest policy as its own, and limiting the size of blades on hockey skates to be 14 inches. The CAHA also continued the practice of using profits from the Allan Cup playoffs to cover expenses of the Canada men's national ice hockey team . In January 1925, Quilty appointed a special committee to review the amateur playing rules in the continued interest of uniformity and safety. In February 1925, he confirmed that

1000-685: The amateur champions of Canada. It was to be ruled like the Stanley Cup had, passed by champion to champion by league championship or challenge. Three trustees were named to administer the trophy: Sir Edward Clouston, President of the Bank of Montreal , Dr. H. B. Yates of McGill University , (donor of the Yates Cup to the Intercollegiate Rugby Union in 1898) and Graham Drinkwater , four-time Stanley Cup champion. The trophy

1040-399: The cup to the CAHA, and establish an Allan Cup committee which included trustee William Northey . In February 1945, CAHA president Frank Sargent announced the cancellation of the 1945 Allan Cup playoffs. It was the first season in which the trophy was not contested since the inaugural 1909 Allan Cup . The cancellation was caused by the reluctance to travel during wartime conditions, and

1080-504: The format to a best-of-three series due to increased popularity of the games and demand for a longer series. At the CAHA general meeting in March 1927, W. A. Fry requested to have the CAHA take control of the Allan Cup and its profits from the trustees, and use the funds to build amateur hockey in Canada. He felt the move justified as the CAHA had evolved and was able to manage its own affairs. His motion asked for H. Montagu Allan to donate

1120-484: The meeting, the CAHA agreed to award individual medals to team members of Allan Cup and Memorial Cup champions. The Allan Cup, and the J. Ross Robertson Cup series were changed to be a best-of-three series. The CAHA established the T. B. Patton Cup as the championship for Western Canada senior teams. Quilty and the CAHA were lauded at a banquet for progress made in working out the differences between east and west in Canadian amateur hockey. The general meeting also saw

1160-421: The players' need to work rather than playing hockey. In 1951, the CAHA set up a "major league" of competition from the semi-pro and professional senior leagues. The leagues would no longer compete for the Allan Cup, but would compete for the new Alexander Cup . The Allan Cup would be competed for on a more purely amateur basis from teams in smaller centres of Canada. The major league concept broke up by 1953, and

1200-399: The playoffs. He joined the McGill Redmen football team for the 1914 season , who were the defending intercollegiate champions. Quilty also enrolled at McGill University to study medicine. In the 1914 Yates Cup championship game, Quilty scored two touchdowns. The second touchdown included 109 yards gained in seven consecutive plays from his own one-yard line, but McGill lost the game to

1240-402: The previous round. Quilty was succeeded as the CAHA president on March 27, 1926, by Frank Sandercock from Calgary. Quilty was the honorary president of the CAHA from 1926 to 1928. In that role, he was responsible to arrange the 1928 annual general meeting of the CAHA. He was also made an Allan Cup trustee after his term as CAHA president expired. In 1930, Quilty served on the executive of

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1280-400: The provincial hockey associations. He was the father of National Hockey League player Johnny Quilty , was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1966, and into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1975. Quilty was born February 8, 1891, near Renfrew, Ontario . He detested his birth name Sylvester, and preferred to be known as Silver. He began playing football while attending

1320-488: The spur moment, right on the field during a game. The coach directed the team in practice and set up some basic plays but he didn't have much to do once a game started". Quilty also felt that modern football was more of a coaches' game, and said "but one thing hasn't changed with the years, to play football well you've got to have your heart in it". Quilty worked as a Canadian football referee for five seasons after his playing days. He officiated football for two seasons with

1360-829: The teams affiliation with the National Hockey League 's Ottawa Senators . After three season as the Senators, the team became the Thunder Bay Thunder Cats in 1996. The CoHL changed its name to the United Hockey League (UHL) in 1997. After eight seasons in Thunder Bay, the Thunder Cats were bought, moved to Rockford, Illinois , and renamed the Rockford IceHogs in 1999. This Ontario ice hockey team-related article

1400-481: The three existing professional leagues. The CAHA also examined whether to alter its practice of rotating hosting duties for the Allan Cup and Memorial Cup series between Eastern and Western Canada, depending on where the final series of the Stanley Cup was held in any given year. Other changes discussed included setting a deadline for provincial championships to be completed as part of inter-provincial playoffs;

1440-415: The total for Saskatchewan. Silver Quilty Sylvester Patrick " Silver " Quilty (February 8, 1891 – December 2, 1976) was a Canadian football player, referee, coach and sport administrator. As a player, he won the Yates Cup in 1907 with the Ottawa Gee-Gees football team, and was credited as the first man to play the flying wing position. He also played with the Ottawa Rough Riders , and

1480-506: Was a voice in favour of amateur hockey. He was subsequently elected vice-president of the CAHA, serving in that role from 1922 to 1924. Quilty succeeded Toby Sexsmith as president of the CAHA at the annual meeting in Toronto, on March 29, 1924. Quilty was immediately faced with branches of the CAHA resigning due to disagreements on rules of play, and set up a committee to look into uniform rules of play across Canada, in cooperation with

1520-599: Was announced that Quilty would study to become a priest at the Montreal Seminary . On September 23, 1912, Quilty returned to play in Ottawa for the 1912 season , instead of studying at the seminary. Later that month, Queen's University denied a statement that it had offered Quilty free tuition to play for the Queen's Gaels football team. Quilty played the 1913 season with the Ottawa Rough Riders under his old coach Father Stanton, but his team failed to reach

1560-672: Was originally presented to the Victoria Hockey Club of Montreal , Quebec, members of the IPAHU, to award to the champions of the IPAHU. The first IPAHU champion, and by extension, first winner of the Cup was the Ottawa Cliffsides hockey club. After the season, the Cliffsides were defeated in the first-ever challenge by the Queen's University hockey club of Kingston, Ontario . In the early years, trustees of

1600-541: Was the light-heavyweight boxing champion of the Ottawa Valley in 1939, and served in the military during World War II . Johnny Quilty died on September 12, 1969, at age 48. Quilty died on December 2, 1976, in Ottawa . He was interred at Notre-Dame Cemetery in Ottawa, with his wife's family in section 20, lot 5043. In 1966, Quilty was inducted into both the Ottawa Sport Hall of Fame , and

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