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Acadia University Varsity Hockey Team 1939-40

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back row: G. Porter (mgr), B. Trask (asst mgr), B. Parlee (lw), D. Learment (d), W. Smith (sub goal), W. Anderson (rw), J. Gray (c), F.G. Kelly (coach);
front row: F. Theakston (c), J. Murdock (rw), D. Smith (d), N. Price (goal, capt), J. Jordan (d), C. Bruce (c), J. Wilson (lw).

Team Takes Three Titles

Led by captain Neil Price, the 1939-40 hockey team had an outstanding season. As reported in the 1940 Acadia Yearbook: “We captured the Valley League Championship from Wolfville, the championship of Western Nova Scotia by defeating Annapolis “Tigers,” and then advanced to the Nova Scotia senior semi-finals and had the satisfaction of being on the heavy end of a 3-2 score against the Halifax “Wolves”....The St F. X. game– 81 minutes of strenuous and exciting hockey, came to an end when “Jimmy” Gray fooled MacDougal, the St. F. X. goalie, and gave us the Nova Scotia Intercollegiate hockey championship by a score of 4-3.” Acadia finished the season by beating St. Dunstan’s of Prince Edward Island 3-0 to claim the Maritime title. The team collected three trophies– the Graham Trophy, the Tip Top Tailors Trophy and the Evans Trophy.

(Acadia Yearbook 1940, 105)

Edson Graham, Wolfville. 1940. ECW APC 57.

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