page_title: Quaker City Hockey Club
hierarchical_section_title: Quaker City Hockey Club
caption_attribution_description: English: Quaker City Hockey Club of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the 1898–99 season.
context_page_description: The Quaker City Hockey Club was an amateur ice hockey team from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Quaker City Hockey Club formed in 1897 and played in the American Amateur Hockey League during the 1900–01 season, playing its home games at the West Park Ice Palace at 52nd and Jefferson streets in Philadelphia, before the Ice Palace was destroyed in a fire on March 24 1901.
  The team finished last in the 1900–01 AAHL standings with two wins, eight losses and one draw.
  Canadian middle distance runner and Olympic gold medalist George Orton captained the team. Also on the 1900–01 roster was Pennsylvania native 1906 US Open tennis champion William Clothier. The 1897–98 season saw Canadians Hugh Yelverton "Bert" Russel and Stanley Willett on the roster.
context_section_description: The Quaker City Hockey Club was an amateur ice hockey team from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Quaker City Hockey Club formed in 1897 and played in the American Amateur Hockey League during the 1900–01 season, playing its home games at the West Park Ice Palace at 52nd and Jefferson streets in Philadelphia, before the Ice Palace was destroyed in a fire on March 24 1901.
  The team finished last in the 1900–01 AAHL standings (behind Brooklyn Crescents, New York Athletic Club, St. Nicholas Hockey Club, Brooklyn Skating Club and New York Hockey Club) with two wins, eight losses and one draw.
  Canadian middle distance runner and Olympic gold medalist George Orton captained the team. Also on the 1900–01 roster was Pennsylvania native 1906 US Open tennis champion William Clothier. The 1897–98 season saw Canadians Hugh Yelverton "Bert" Russel (of the Ottawa Hockey Club) and Stanley Willett (of the Montreal Victorias) on the roster.
caption: Quaker City Hockey Club in 1898–99. Team captain George Orton is sitting second from the right in the middle row.
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