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The 1909
Allan Cup The Allan Cup is the trophy awarded annually to the national senior amateur men's ice hockey champions of Canada. It was donated by Sir Montagu Allan of Ravenscrag, Montreal, and has been competed for since 1909. The current champions are the ...
was the Canadian
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championship for the 1908–09 season. The event was hosted by the
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in
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,
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. The 1909 playoff marked the first and second time that the
Allan Cup The Allan Cup is the trophy awarded annually to the national senior amateur men's ice hockey champions of Canada. It was donated by Sir Montagu Allan of Ravenscrag, Montreal, and has been competed for since 1909. The current champions are the ...
was awarded.


The first champion

Sir H. Montagu Allan gave the
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to the Victoria Hockey Club of
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to give to the 1909 champion of their league, the
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. The
Ottawa Cliffsides The Ottawa Cliffsides were a senior ice hockey team that played in the Inter-Provincial Amateur Hockey Union from 1908–1911. From 1905 to 1908 they played in the Ottawa City Senior League. They were the first winner of the Allan Cup in 1909 ...
won the IAHU championship, surpassing the
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with a 5-1-0 record (Montreal was 4-2-0) to win the league title and be awarded the
Allan Cup The Allan Cup is the trophy awarded annually to the national senior amateur men's ice hockey champions of Canada. It was donated by Sir Montagu Allan of Ravenscrag, Montreal, and has been competed for since 1909. The current champions are the ...
on March 6, 1909. One week later, the first challenge was played, with the Intercollegiate league champion Queen's University challenging Ottawa to a single-game playoff. Queen's won the game and took over the Allan Cup championship. A second challenge was received, from St. Michael's College, the
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(OHA) senior champion, but the trustees ruled that it was too late in the season to play.


The first challenge

*
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(Allan Cup holder) * Queen's University (Challenger)


Result

:Queen's University 5 - Ottawa Cliffsides 4 Queen's University of
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wins the
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.


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