The 1919

Memorial Cup The Memorial Cup () is the national championship of the Canadian Hockey League, a consortium of three major junior ice hockey leagues operating in Canada and parts of the United States. It is a four-team round-robin tournament played between t ...

final was the first

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championship of the

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. The

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champions

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of the

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competed against the

Abbott Cup The Abbott Memorial Cup, commonly referred to as the Abbott Cup, was awarded annually from 1919 through 1999 to the Junior "A" ice hockey Champion for Western Canada. The Cup was named after Captain E.L. (Hick) Abbott who was a noted hockey p ...

champions

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of the South Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League in

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. In a two-game, total goal series, held at the

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, the University of Toronto Schools won the 1st Memorial Cup, defeating Regina 29 goals to 8. The final game was delayed by nearly an hour and a half. There were parades in Toronto the same day — for Canadian regiments just returning home from the First World War — and fans were late to their seats because of them.

Winning roster

Jack Aggett, Donald Gunn, Steve Greey, Don Jeffery, Richard Kearns,

Dunc Munro Duncan Brown Munro (January 19, 1901 – January 3, 1958) was a Canadian Olympic ice hockey player who played with and coached the Montreal Maroons. He was born in Moray, Scotland. When he was still a child his family moved to Toronto, Ontario, ...

, Langton Rowell, Joe Sullivan. Coach: Frank Carroll

References

External links

Memorial Cup

Canadian Hockey League
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