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Located on Duquesne Way in downtown Pittsburgh, the building featured a swimming pool, a gymnasium and Turkish baths. The new club promised to support a variety of sports and teams, including a WPHL ice hockey team to be "composed of stars". [1] The hockey team took the place in the league vacated by the defunct Pittsburgh Pirates. [2]
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.
Duquesne Country and Athletic Club (1895–1901) Pittsburgh Athletic Club (1895–1904, 1907–1909) Pittsburgh Bankers (1899–1904, 1907–1909) Pittsburgh Keystones (1900–1904) Pittsburgh Lyceum (1907–1908) Pittsburgh Pirates (1907–1908) Pittsburgh Victorias (1902–1904)
Pittsburgh Athletic Club; City: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: League: Western Pennsylvania Hockey League: Operated: 1895–1905, 1907–1909: Home arena: Duquesne Garden (1899–1909) Schenley Park Casino (1895–1896) Colors: Red (crimson) and white General manager: Charles Miller: Captain: Harry Stoebener (1899–1900) Championships; Regular ...
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 ...
On January 10, 1956, the Gardens hosted the American Hockey League All Star Game for the city of Pittsburgh. [18] However the Gardens was also the home for Duquesne University Basketball as well as the Pittsburgh Ironmen of the Basketball Association of America, a forerunner to the NBA. The team ended their only season in the BAA in 1946–47 ...
This jumping affected all of the league's teams. Once the Pittsburgh Lyceum team folded on December 23, it was decided to discontinue the WPHL after the season. The Duquesne Athletic Club beat the Pittsburgh Bankers in the last game of the season to win the final WPHL championship title. [1]
The Pittsburgh Pirates were an early professional ice hockey club based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and were members of the Western Pennsylvania Hockey League for the 1908 WPHL season. The team, and the league, played all of their games at Duquesne Garden. The Pirates made one of the first known trades of professional hockey players.