Hockey, men's
Intercollegiate Hockey Returns
When intercollegiate hockey resumed in 1913, Mount Allison’s varsity hockey team employed its first coach, Jack Twaddle, who was a respected hockey player from Amherst, Nova Scotia. The varsity team, captained by centreman William S. (“Bill”) Godfrey, went on to win the Sumner Cup in 1914. The same team also won the Brown Trophy in 1914, which pitted Mount Allison against the top team from the Eastern Nova Scotia League: Dalhousie. The match for the Brown Trophy against Dalhousie was played in Oxford, Nova Scotia, and was watched by close to 1,000 people.
Rules of the game continued to be modified. Beginning in 1914, hockey started being played in three periods rather than two halves. A recommendation to eliminate the rover position and reduce the number of players to six was made by college representatives at a conference in Saint John on 22 December 1913, and was adopted by Mount Allison athletes by March 1916.
Mount Allison University hockey team, winners of Sumner Cup and Brown Trophy, 1914
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