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7
 Baker actually played his final game for Princeton in Canada. It was at Ottawa's Dey Rink on February 28, 1914. Princeton lost to Ottawa College 3–2.

8
 “Torontos Sure of Championship,”
Toronto Star
, February 26, 1914.

9
 “The N.H.A. Race Tied Up By Last Night's Results,”
Toronto Star
, March 5, 1914.

10
 “Ontarios and Torontos Beat Montreal N.H.A. Teams,”
Toronto Star
, February 2, 1914.

11
 “Torontos Played Superb Hockey and Outclassed Canadiens in Final Game,”
Toronto News
, March 12, 1914.

12
 “Wig Wag System Used For Denoting Penalties in N.H.A.,”
Toronto News
, December 20, 1912.

13
 It should be noted that there was some uncertainty during the Toronto–Victoria matches as to their bearing on possession of the Stanley Cup. During the series, reports appeared saying that the trustees would not recognize the games because the leagues' “hockey commission” had not asked their formal approval for the challenge. However, the matter appears to have been ironed out by the time it was all concluded. The Blue Shirts are thus now recognized as having successfully defended their Cup title after first gaining it with the NHA championship.

14
 “Flanagan on Current Sport,”
Toronto Telegram
, March 17, 1914.

15
 “Three Straight For Torontos, Should Beat Victoria Again.”

16
 For example, see “Inter-League Hockey Pros Second Game at the Arena,”
Toronto Telegram
, March 17, 1914.

17
 Barbara Wertheim Tuchman,
The Guns of August
(New York: Macmillan, 1962), p. 1.

18
 Augustus Bridle,
Sons of Canada: Short Studies of Characteristic Canadians
(Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1916), p. 26.

19
 Poulton,
The Paper Tyrant
, p. 138.

1
 This is attributed to Tommy Gorman of the old Ottawa Senators. See Morey Holzman and Joseph Nieforth,
Deceptions and Doublecross: How the NHL Conquered Hockey
(Toronto: Dundurn, 2002), p. 24.

2
 I admit that my take on the Calder–Livingstone rivalry is close to the traditional NHL-authorized view of history. For an interpretation more sympathetic to Livingstone, see Holzman and Nieforth.

3
 This whole episode was actually quite complex. The Arenas initially contracted with Livingstone for the temporary use of his players. However, they never did pay the required sums and eventually turned the men over to the St. Patricks rather than returning them.

4
 This is discussed in detail in Walter C. Neale, “The Peculiar Economics of Professional Sports,”
Quarterly Journal of Economics
, vol. 78 (February 1964), pp. 1–14.

5
 “Maple Leafs Gardens Contract Goes to Local Firm,”
Toronto Globe
, May 30, 1931.

6
 Poulton,
The Paper Tyrant
, p. 173.

7
 “Great Toronto Newspaperman Has Passed Away,”
Morning Leader
, June 1, 1918.

8
 Poulton, p. 172.

9
 This is the title of the chapter about Hewitt in Scott Young's OHA history. See Scott Young,
100 Years of Dropping the Puck: A History of the OHA
(Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1989), pp. 62–74.

10
 Hewitt,
Down the Stretch
, pp. 238–39.

11
 Technically, only W. A. Hewitt and Foster Hewitt are members of the Hockey Hall of Fame. Bill Hewitt is, however, a recipient of the Hall's Foster Hewitt Memorial Award for broadcasting.

12
 My observation here originates in the comments of Bruce Kidd,
The Struggle for Canadian Sport
(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996), pp. 35–36, although my perspective is somewhat different.

13
 As above, my observation here grew out of that of Kidd,
The Struggle for Canadian Sport
.

14
 The U.S.-based Portland Rosebuds attempted to claim the Stanley Cup one year earlier, in 1916. They had won the PCHA championship against, among others, the reigning Cup holders, the Vancouver Millionaires. However, after 1914, the trustees did not recognize a Cup champion until all interleague playoffs were completed at the end of the season. Nevertheless, Portland engraved its name on the Cup, to this day the only non-winner to appear on the chalice.

15
 “Marshall Was Last of Famed Ice Squad,”
Montreal Star
, August 9, 1965.

16
 An obvious question is why Charles Coleman ascribed the “Maple Leafs” moniker to the 1908 Toronto Stanley Cup contender. As noted, just before the Montreal Wanderers met Alex Miln's Professionals, they defeated a challenge from the Winnipeg Maple Leafs. As these two series reported on the same page, the nickname may have originated simply as a transposition error. See Charles L. Coleman,
The Trail of the Stanley Cup: Volume 1, 1893–1926
(1964), p. 162.

17
 “Another Hockeyist Killed in Action,”
Toronto Star
, November 24, 1916.

18
 “Attestation Paper No. 443780,” MERCER, WALTER, Regimental Number: 443780, Reference: RG 150, Accession 1992–93/166, Box 6122–28.

19
 Obituaries of Walter Hayes Mercer in the
Toronto Globe and Mail
,
Star
and
Telegram
, May 30, 1961.

20
 “Rev. Tyner, of Lincoln, in Front Line Trenches, Describes Conditions on Fields Where Americans are Fighting,”
Lincoln Star
, April 21, 1918.

21
 “Rev. Charles R. Tyner,”
Kansas City Times
, March 13, 1967.

22
 This is a fact I am at pains to explain, but it is a fact nonetheless. It appears that Bruce Ridpath, Con Corbeau, Bert Morrison, Alexander Miln and Teddy Marriott never married. Chuck Tyner and Rolly Young wed late and had no children. Only Newsy Lalonde, Hugh Lambe and Walter Mercer produced offspring. Looking at the team's lesser lights whom I have been able to obtain information on, the same pattern appears. A notable exception is Ezra Dumart. His son, Woody Dumart, starred with the Boston Bruins from the late 1930s to the early 1950s and is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame.

23
 Some discussion of Hugh Lambe's married life can be found in “Dunsford Family,”
Ancestry.ca
.

24
 “Hugh Lambe Killed by Fall on Stairs,”
Toronto Star
, May 7, 1941.

25
 “For the Would-Be Paddler,”
Toronto World
, July 9, 1919.

26
 Poulton,
The Paper Tyrant
, p. 173.

27
 Various elements of this argument can be found in Kidd,
The Struggle for Canadian Sport
, pp. 42 and 265–70; Alan Metcalfe,
Canada Learns to Play
(Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1987), pp. 223–224, and Don Morrow, “A Case Study in Conflict,” in
British Journal of Sports History
(September 1986), pp. 185–86.

28
 John Ross Robertson,
Talks with Craftsmen and Pencillings by the Wayside: Thoughts for Those Who Are Earnest in a Work that Serves a Noble End and Binds the Hearts of a Great Brotherhood in the Golden Chain of Faith, Fellowship, and Fraternity
(Toronto: Hunter, Rose, 1890), p. 6.

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