Montreal AAA
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Montreal Amateur Athletic Association is Canada's oldest athletic association, located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was renamed as the Club Sportif MAA or just MAA (Montreal MAA) in 1999 after a brush with bankruptcy, but is still widely known as the MAAA. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, the MAA was one of the most important sporting institutions in Canada, and North America, with its teams winning ice hockey's Stanley Cup and Canadian football's Grey Cup.
The Montreal Amateur Athletic Association came into existence June 1881 and began as a confederation of three sporting clubs: The Montreal Snow Shoe Club, The Montreal Bicycle Club, and The Montreal Lacrosse Club. These founding clubs shared the club space of the Montreal Gymnasium, located at Mansfield Street and de Maisonneuve Boulevard.
The current clubhouse was opened in 1905, on Peel Street in downtown Montreal, in the current commercial district. Due to problems with an aging population, the club switched from being solely member-financed during the revival of 1999. The high taxes on the clubhouse property in central Montreal exacerbated their problems.
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[edit] Historic teams
[edit] Ice hockey
The Montreal Hockey Club was an ice hockey team that played in the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada 1892-1898, the Canadian Amateur Hockey League 1898–1905 and the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association 1905–1908. The teams were composed of amateurs until 1906.
The team won the Amateur Hockey Association title in 1893 and 1894, and won the Canadian Amateur Hockey League title in 1902. It was the first club to be presented with the Stanley Cup, in 1893. They won again in 1894, March 1902 and February 1903.
The 1902 team was known as the "Little Men of Iron".[1] After the 1903 season, players from the team formed the core of the Montreal Wanderers professional club, who took on the "Little Men" nickname.
[edit] Athletic achievements
- 1893 The ice hockey club wins its first Stanley Cup
- 1894 The hockey club wins its second Stanley Cup
- 1902 The hockey club wins its third Stanley Cup
- 1904 Étienne Desmarteau wins the gold medal in weight-throwing at the 1904 Summer Olympics. He is frequently incorrectly credited as the first Canadian Olympic gold medalist.
- 1912 George Hodgson wins two gold medals in the 1912 Olympics
- 1920 Russell Wheeler, becomes the Canadian Speed Skating Champion
- 1930 M.A.A.A. ice hockey team wins the Allan Cup
- 1931 The football club wins its first Grey Cup
[edit] References
- ^ Montreal AAA. legendsofhockey.net. Retrieved on 2007-07-03.
