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Toggle American Ultimate Disc League teams subsection. 1.1 East. 1.2 Central. ... Green River Swordfish — Davis ... North Coast Disc Co. — Cleveland, Ohio; Bro ...
Dayton Gems (original) (merged with the Milwaukee Admirals, now in the American Hockey League) Cleveland Falcons/Indians (transferred to the American Hockey League and became the Cleveland Barons (1937–73); eventually moved to Jacksonville, Florida and became the Jacksonville Barons for the rest of the team's existence)
The league abandoned the two-division format for 1939–1940. The other Pittsburgh colleges, Duquesne and Carnegie Tech, dropped hockey after 1940 leaving the league with only the Ohio colleges of Case, Fenn, John Carroll and Western Reserve. The four schools continued competing as a league dropping the "Penn-Ohio" name for the 1940–1941 season.
In 1907, the WPHL was the first league to openly hire hockey players. The league played its games in three Pittsburgh hockey arenas, the Gardens, the Schenley Park Casino and the Winter Garden at Exposition Hall. The Casino, which was destroyed by a fire in 1896, had the first artificial ice surface in North America, was the first place in ...
The Duquesne Country and Athletic Club (DC&AC) first played exhibition games of ice hockey in 1895. The Duquesne team then played in the first season of the WPHL at the Schenley Park Casino, with three other teams, the Pittsburgh Athletic Club, a club from Western University of Pennsylvania (the University of Pittsburgh today) and a team known as Pittsburgh, or the 'Casino' team.
World Hockey Championship. Men's champion: Soviet Union defeated Czechoslovakia; NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship – Boston University Terriers defeat University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Golden Gophers 4–2 in Syracuse, New York; World Hockey Association (WHA) is formed as an alternative North American professional hockey league to the NHL
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Over the years, the Gardens was the home arena of several of Pittsburgh's historic sports teams, such as ice hockey's Pittsburgh Pirates and Pittsburgh Hornets. The Western Pennsylvania Hockey League, which was the first ice hockey league to openly hire and trade players, played all of its games at the Gardens. The arena was also the first ...