Jean Beliveau Foundation Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 3/11/2008
Exceptional early 20th century cabinet photo pictures the “Montreal Hockey Club”, with “Champions of the World 1901-02” below the team’s name on the sturdy cardboard mat, which also identifies each of Montreal’s hockey heroes. Most notable are team captain Dickie Boon (third in the front row), fellow Hall-of-Famer Jack Marshall (to his left) and Art Hooper (to Boon’s right). The Montreal Amateur Athletic Association’s team posed in a Winnipeg studio (“Steele” appears in the lower left corner) after challenging and defeating the Winnipeg Victorias in a close best-of-three series played in mid-March. Over 4000 fans packed the Winnipeg arena for game one, won 1-0 by the hometown Vics, with even larger crowds attending the subsequent battles. Montreal tied the series with a 5-0 shutout and then captured the Stanley Cup with a 2-0 win on early goals by Hooper and Marshall. History books however reveal that it was a stubborn defence which lifted the Montrealers to victory and earned them the nickname “Little Men of Iron”, a moniker which became commonly associated with the Montreal Wanderers who later featured most of the AAA’s star players. Meanwhile, most of this pictured team, bolstered by Tom Philips, defended its title the following winter when the same Winnipeg Victorias came east to challenge for Lord Stanley’s silverware only to lose again, two-games-to-one. Matte-finish photograph is applied to paper which is then applied to the approximately 11” by 12-1/2” mat. Minor soiling, limited mostly to the mat, detracts very little from this wondrous, mesmerizing and rare offering.
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