1905 CAHL season

The 1905 Canadian Amateur Hockey League (CAHL) season was the seventh and final season of the league. Teams played a ten-game schedule. This year saw the addition of two teams, Montreal Westmount and Montreal Nationals. Montreal Nationals had previously been in the FAHL. Montreal Victorias won the league championship with a record of 9–1.
==League business==
===Executive===
* F. McRobie, Victorias (President)
* H. Shaw, Montreal (Secretary-Treasurer)
At the league meeting, new franchises were granted to Montreal Westmount and Montreal Le National. Grand Trunk, Three Rivers and Montreal Wanderers were turned down. Ottawa representative J.P. Dickson attended the meeting to try to arrange a return to the league by Ottawa on condition that Wanderers were accepted also. This was turned down, partly because the league had decided to have exclusively amateur players.
==Season==
===Highlights===
Montreal Hockey Club's captain, Archie Hooper died before the season of complications stemming from a February 1903 ice hockey game injury.
This season saw several impressive rookies including Art Ross for Montreal Westmount and Ernie Russell for Montreal. Lester and Frank Patrick played together for Montreal Westmount.Coleman, p. 102
The league had a lot of scoring. The league leader, Russell Bowie of Victorias scored 27 goals in eight games. On January 7, Shamrocks and Westmount combined for 24 goals in a Shamrocks 14–10 win. On February 18, Fred Brophy, the Westmount goaltender, decided to get in on the act and rushed the length of the ice to score against Paddy Moran of Quebec.
Montreal Le National lost their first four games by a combined score of 6–42 and withdrew from the rest of the schedule, defaulting the rest of their matches.
Montreal Victorias won the season with a record of 9–1, but could not make a satisfactory arrangement with the Stanley Cup trustees and would not play in a challenge against Ottawa. The Victorias were granted a best-of-three series by the trustees, but declined, demanding a sudden-death game or two-game, total-goals series, which was not agreed to by the trustees.Coleman, p. 103
===Final standing===
Team 	Games Played	Wins	Losses	Ties	Goals For	Goals Against
Montreal Victorias 	10 	9 	1 	0 	64 	32
Quebec Hockey Club 	10 	8 	2 	0 	78 	45
Montreal Hockey Club	10 	7 	3 	0 	54 	42
Montreal Shamrocks 	10 	3 	7 	0 	41 	62
Montreal Westmount 	10 	3 	7 	0 	55 	75
Montreal Le National	10 	0 	10† 	0 	6 	42
† Le National defaulted their last six games.
==Schedule and results==
Month	Day 	Visitor 	Score	Home 	Score
Jan. 	2 	Montreal 	9 	Le National	1
Jan. 	7 	Shamrocks 	14 	Westmount 	10
Jan. 	7 	Victorias 	5 	Quebec 	3
Jan. 	11 	Montreal 	6 	Shamrocks 	1
Jan. 	14 	Quebec 	10 	Westmount 	9
Jan. 	16 	Le National	1 	Shamrocks 	8
Jan. 	18 	Victorias 	8 	Montreal 	5
Jan. 	21 	Le National	2 	Quebec 	13
Jan. 	21 	Victorias 	7 	Shamrocks 	2
Jan. 	23 	Westmount 	12 	Le National	2
Jan. 	26 	Quebec 	4 	Shamrocks 	2
Jan. 	28 	Montreal 	5 	Westmount 	4
Jan. 	30† 	Nationals 	 	Victorias 	
Feb. 	1 	Westmount 	4 	Victorias 	9
Feb. 	4 	Montreal 	3 	Quebec 	7
Feb. 	4 	Westmount 	3 	Shamrocks 	2
Feb. 	13† 	Nationals 	 	Westmount 	
Feb. 	18 	Shamrocks 	5 	Montreal 	7
Feb. 	18 	Westmount 	5 	Quebec 	17
Feb. 	22 	Victorias 	13 	Shamrocks 	4
Feb. 	22† 	Nationals 	 	Montreal 	
Feb. 	25 	Quebec 	3 	Victorias 	8
Feb. 	27† 	Quebec 	 	Nationals 	
Feb. 	27 	Montreal 	6 	Victorias 	3
Mar. 	1† 	Shamrocks 	 	Nationals 	
Mar. 	4 	Victorias 	11 	Westmount 	5
Mar. 	4 	Shamrocks 	3 	Quebec 	11
Mar. 	6† (††)	Victorias 	 	Nationals 	
Mar. 	8 	Westmount 	3 	Montreal 	5
Mar. 	11 	Quebec 	10 	Montreal 	8
† Defaulted by Nationals
†† Birthday of the Champion.
==Player statistics==
===Goaltending averages===
Name 	Club 	GP	GA	SO	GAA
Nathan Frye 	Victorias 	8 	32	 	4.0
Oswald Waugh 	Montreal 	9 	42	 	4.7
Paddy Moran 	Quebec 	9 	45	 	5.0
Kenny 	Shamrocks 	9 	62	 	6.9
Fred Brophy 	Westmount 	6 	49	 	8.2
Darling 	Westmount 	3 	26	 	8.7
Joseph Cattarinich	Le National	4 	42	 	10.5
===Scoring leaders===
Name 	Club 	GP	G
Bowie, Russell	Victorias	8 	27
Russel, Blair 	Victorias	8 	19
Power, Joe 	Quebec 	9 	15
Foulis, C. 	Westmount	7 	13
Russell, Ernie	Montreal 	8 	11
Ross, Art 	Westmount	8 	10
Hogan, Eddie 	Quebec 	9 	10
Church, Tom 	Westmount	9 	9
Howard, Cavey 	Victorias	8 	9
Jordan, Herb 	Quebec 	8 	9
==See also==
* 1904–05 FAHL season
* Canadian Amateur Hockey League
* List of pre-NHL seasons
==References==
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1904
Category:1905 in ice hockey