1951-52 THL Season

This is the 1951-52 Triangle Hockey League season. The league was actually originally known as the #33 Highway League.
==Founding of the league==
THE TRIANGLE LEAGUE
COMPILED AND WRITTEN IN 1984 BY CATHERINE LEE
The Triangle Hockey League of Saskatchewan was formed in the fall of 1951.
In a small town in the south eastern part of Saskatchewan, a group of young fellows had been playing pool when one of them suggested that they get together a hockey team and challenge the fellows in the neighboring town to a game of hockey at the weekend.
Victor, who was in the barbershop, overheard the remark. Then and there, Hockey! There was the idea for the league. While traveling home that Friday evening and over the weekend, Victor gave much thought and consideration to the idea of a hockey league on his territory.
Victor as a young man was very interested in sport of all kinds and knew the benefits to young people and the communities where there were facilities for team sports.
Victor, having written life insurance as a representative of the Monarch Life Association Company of Winnipeg, Manitoba, for 20 years or more, felt he knew the people in the towns as well as the farmers in the rural communities and that there were numbers of public-spirited men who would be more than willing to support his idea of a hockey league for their communities.
The next week Victor spent contacting some of the businessmen on the C.P.R. and C.N.R. railway lines out of Regina. These two railway lines branched from Regina forming the two arms of a triangle.
Some of the first visited were Dick Ast of Fillmore, J. E. Longpre of Sedley, and Dr. L. L. Prefontaine of Montmartre and others, and all saw the merit and need of a hockey league for their communities. As expected all gave their whole-hearted support to the idea of a hockey league.
A Constitution was drawn up, officers were chosen, and the name of the league was to be The Triangle Hockey League as descriptive of the locale of the players. The proposed Constitution in the scrapbook may not be the one adopted by the league. The league management team was headed by a president, two chairmen, one from each of the two arms of the triangle, and a representative from each playing team in the league. Victor was the first president, but I do not know the names of the chairman or team representatives. Victor was president until December, 1958.
Sedley Sons were the winners for the 1951-1952 season. Porky Helfrick scored two goals, and the following scored one each: Brennan, J. Sieferling, Jack Helfrick, Ferner, Deck, and John Helfrick.
==Teams==
===Northern Railway Line===
*Fairlight Red Wings
*Glenavon Pipers
*Kennedy Black Hawks
*Kipling Hawks
*Montmartre Canadiens
*Wawota Bruins
*Windthorst Pirates
===Southern Railway Line===
*Arcola
*Carlyle Cougars
*Creelman
*Fillmore Foxes
*Kisbey (no nickname)
*Redvers Rockets
*Sedley Sons
*Stoughton Oil Kings
==Results==
* Sedley Sons - Stoughton Oil Kings 9:3 - A semifinal
* Fillmore Foxes - Creelman 4:2 - "
* 3/3: Sedley Sons - Fillmore Foxes 10:5 - A final
* Windthorst Pirates - Montmartre Canadiens - B final
* Sedley Sons - Windthorst Pirates 12 goals to 9 (4:6, 8:3) - League final
The Sedley Sons won over Windthorst Pirates for the league championship.
Category:1952 in ice hockey
Category:Triangle Hockey League seasons