1911 Goodall Cup Finals Explained

Year:1911
Goodall Cup Finals
Format:best-of-three
Team1:Victoria
Team1 Short:Victoria
Team1 1:3
Team1 2:5
Team1 Tot:0
Team2:New South Wales
Team2 Short:New South Wales
Team2 1:5
Team2 2:7
Team2 Tot:2
Table-Note: – Denotes mixed teams
Team2 Coach:F. Dixon
Dates:September 13 – September 18
Location1:Melbourne, Victoria: Melbourne Glaciarium
Series Winner:Jim Kendall

The 1911 Goodall Cup Final marks the third Inter-State Series ice hockey championship in Australia and the first of these championships won by New South Wales. As the second elected president of the Victorian Amateur Ice Hockey Sports Association, Philip John Rupert Steele Sr.,presented a cup, gifted by John Edwin Goodall to the Captain of the winning New South Wales Team, Jim Kendall.

The series

Game one13 September 1911 was the first game of the series and saw the domination of Jim Kendall, who arrived from Canada 2 years before, in the game by scoring all 5 goals for New South Wales in the 5–3 win over Victoria. Mistakes in the early parts of the game by the Victorian team were used by the team to let Jim Kendall curve and twist around the opposition. Hal Reid contributed 2 goals and Keith Walker had one of his own but Victoria couldn't make it past the dominating efforts of Kendall.[1]
Game two14 September 1911 The match was closely fought but the dominance of Jim Kendall again proved to be too much for the Victorians as he scored 6 of the 7 goals for New South Wales, often sweeping from end to end like the puck was attached to his stick by a magnet. Dunbar Poole scored the 7th goal for New South Wales as they clinched the series with a 7–5 win over Victoria. In this game, Jim Kendall suffered an injury as a hockey stick split his shin bone during play, rendering him unable to compete in the final game of the 3-game championship.[2]
Game threeSeptember 18, 1911 Due to his injury from the second game, where the New South Wales team would clinch the series and win the Goodall Cup, Jim Kendall was on crutches due to splitting his shinbone from a blow to the leg with a hockey stick and was unable to play. Dunbar Poole was unable to stay and had also left, leaving the New South Wales team short 2 players. A decision was made to complete the final game of the series with a composite team of Dark Blue and Light Blue teams made up of the Victoria and New South Wales teams and emergency back up players for the Victorian team. The first half of the game saw 2 goals by Leslie Reid and one by Keith Walker place the Light Blue team in front by a score of 3–1, C. Smith scoring the goal for the Dark blue team. The second half of the game saw a comeback by the dark blue side with 3 goals by Jack Pike and a goal to Reid and Smith. The final score was 6–3 in favor of the Dark Blue team. The newly appointed second president of the VAIHSA, Philip John Rupert Steele Sr, presented a cup gifted by John Edwin Goodall to the injured New South Wales captain Jim Kendall on the evening after the final game of this series.[3]
Game-by-gameAway TeamScoreHome TeamScoring SummaryLocation
1September 13New South Wales5-3VictoriaNSW - J. Kendall (5) VIC - H. Reid (2), K. Walker Melbourne Glaciarium
2September 14New South Wales7-5VictoriaNSW - J. Kendall (6), D. Poole VIC - K. Walker (3), H. Reid, L. Reid
3September 18Light Blue**3–6Dark Blue**Light Blue - L. Reid (2), K. Walker Dark Blue - J. Pike (3), C. Smith (2), H. Reid
New South Wales win best-of-three series 2 games to 0

Teams

Victoria

The Victoria team was made from the following players

New South Wales

The New South Wales team was made from the following players

Dark Blue

Light Blue

Player statistics

Scoring Leaders

The following players led the interstate championship for points.

PlayerTeam
2 11 0 11
2 4 0 4
2 3 0 3
2 1 0 1
2 1 0 1
2 0 0 0
2 0 0 0
2 0 0 0
2 0 0 0
2 0 0 0

Leading goaltenders

The following goaltenders led the interstate championship for goals against average.

PlayerTeam
New South Wales 2 2 0 8 0 4.00
Victoria 2 0 2 12 0 6.00

See also

Notes and References

  1. News: Hockey on the Ice - Interstate Test Match. . 14 September 1911 . 29 September 2015.
  2. News: Hockey on the Ice - Interstate Test Match. . 16 September 1911 . 29 September 2015.
  3. News: Hockey on the Ice - Farewell To Visiting Team. . 19 September 1911 . 29 September 2015.

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