Mount Allison, History of Sports, Men's Hockey

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Until Mount Allison joined its first intercollegiate hockey league in December 1905, the varsity team played a wide assortment of one-off games against college and town teams. In 1903, for example, the Mount Allison team went on a tour of Nova Scotia, and played against Canning and Windsor town teams, and Acadia University. This was the first time Mount Allison met Acadia on the ice, and Mount Allison defeated its opponent 4-0. The president of Mount Allison, Dr. David Allison, was so happy upon hearing of his school’s victory over Acadia that he declared a school holiday.

The game against Acadia, however, was also noteworthy because it was the first time Mount Allison hockey players had been accosted by unruly collegiate spectators. An unidentified player from the Mount Allison squad commented on this in The Argosy (March 1903):

"We very much regret that a Mt. Allison man struck an Acadia player in the game, even though provocation was great. At the same time we take serious exception to the action of the spectators, most of whom were Acadia students, in hissing that man. We are not in the habit of hearing collegians hiss nor of being hissed ourselves and think such action at least somewhat unsportsmanlike."

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Mount Allison University men's hockey team, 1902-03

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