Australian Men's National Ice Hockey Championship

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Australian Men's National Ice Hockey Championship
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Hockey current event.svg 2019 Australian Men's National Ice Hockey Championship
Sport Ice Hockey
Founded1964
No. of teams6
Most recent
champion(s)		Western Australia (6)
Most titlesVictoria (20)
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The Australian Men's National Ice Hockey Championship is an annual elimination tournament for Ice Hockey Australia between each Australian state and territory. It consists of a round robin format tournament, where each state plays another 1 time to determine placement for the sudden death playoff format. The sudden death playoff format consists of 2 semi-final rounds followed by a gold medal game and a bronze medal game.

Ice Hockey Australia

The Australian Ice Hockey Federation, currently trading as Ice Hockey Australia (IHA), is the official national governing body of ice hockey in Australia and is a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation. It was first established in 1908, making it one of the oldest national ice hockey associations in the world.

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To be eligible for the Australian National Men's Ice Hockey Championship players must be senior men aged 17 years and older with the condition that players of the Australian Ice Hockey League that are 24 years and older must have played less than 6 games to remain eligible. [1]

Australian Ice Hockey League

The Australian Ice Hockey League (AIHL) is Australia's top-level ice hockey league. It is sanctioned by Ice Hockey Australia and it is run by its own board of directors. AIHL players are amateurs. Players are not paid to play in the AIHL, but receive other benefits such as the use of a car, and accommodation during the season. The AIHL has attracted players up to and including NHL players. AIHL games are shorter than typical hockey games, consisting of two 15-minute periods and a 20-minute 3rd, instead of three 20-minute periods that are usually played under normal North American and IIHF hockey regulations. The current champions are the Sydney Bears.

History

The origin of this National championship shares a similar origin of a previous tournament with an award bearing the Brown surname but in this case was the father of Jim Brown, the namesake of the Jim Brown Shield that is awarded to the current winners of the Australian Men's National Ice Hockey Championship. The Jim Brown Shield is the third trophy to bear the Brown surname.

The Jim Brown Shield is currently an annually awarded interstate ice hockey championship trophy in Australia for senior men aged 17 years and older with the condition that players of the Australian Ice Hockey League that are 24 years and older must have played less than 6 games to remain eligible. The current trophy is in the form of a shield and is the third trophy to bear the Brown family name. The trophy is named after Scottish born James Archibald Brown. The Jim Brown Shield is competed for in a series of games between state representative teams in what is called the Australian Men's National Ice Hockey Championship.

Previous Awards With the Brown Surname

F.C. Brown Trophy

The F.C. Brown Trophy was first presented in 1928 [2] as an inter-state championship trophy for relay speed skating and presented by Francis Cowan "Buster" Brown for a competition between the Goodall Cup teams from New South Wales and Victoria. The competition consisted of each competitor skating 2 laps of the rink.

In July 1935, the Victorian Ice Hockey Association held a meeting to discuss a suggestion by the New South Wales Ice Hockey Association to hold the competition during the national carnival in Sydney Australia, Sydney in a format that consisted of a series of match races instead of the usual relay style format. The VIHA declined the suggestion due to it being thought to be too much for the state representatives to participate in the National half mile, and quarter mile races as well as now competing in match races on the same evening. [2]

The Victorian Ice Hockey Association, currently trading as Ice Hockey Victoria is the governing body of ice hockey in Victoria, Australia. The Victorian Ice Hockey Association is a branch of Ice Hockey Australia.

New South Wales Ice Hockey Association

The New South Wales Ice Hockey Association, currently trading as Ice Hockey NSW is the governing body of ice hockey in New South Wales, Australia. The New South Wales Ice Hockey Association is a branch of Ice Hockey Australia.

The F.C. Brown Trophy was contested on 20 July 1937 as part of the interstate ice hockey tournament between New South Wales and Victoria for the Goodall Cup at the Sydney Glaciarium. [3]

The Goodall Cup is a perpetual trophy that is, currently, annually awarded to the playoff champions of the Australian Ice Hockey League (AIHL). The trophy is named after Australian born player John Edwin Goodall who originally donated the cup.

The Sydney Glaciarium was the third indoor ice skating facility built in Australia and the first indoor ice skating rink built in New South Wales.

F.C. Brown Trophy Champions

  • 1928 New South Wales [2]
  • 1929 New South Wales [2]
  • 1930 New South Wales [2]
  • 1931 New South Wales [2]
  • 1932 New South Wales [2]
  • 1933 New South Wales [2]
  • 1934 New South Wales [2]
  • 1936 Victoria [4]

F.C. Brown Memorial Shield

Until 1938, the only annual interstate ice hockey championship in Australia was for the most elite ice hockey players in the country consisting of a state team for New South Wales and Victoria competing for the Goodall Cup. In 1938, by request from both New South Wales and Victoria, a second annual interstate tournament was created for the fringe players that did not make selection for the Goodall Cup interstate tournament. This tournament was referred to as the F.C. Brown series or Return Interstate Ice Hockey Series and would be played in the state where the Goodall Cup tournament was not played.

The trophy awarded to the winner of this tournament was named the F.C. Brown Memorial Shield which was in memory of Francis Cowan Brown who had died two years before in 1936. The trophy itself was originally donated by James 'Jimmy' Brown, the son of Francis Cowan Brown.

In 1951 the decision was made to discontinue the F.C. Brown series due to lack of ice time availability and financial issues. The current whereabouts of the F.C. Memorial Shield remains unknown. [5]

F.C. Brown Memorial Shield Champions

  • 1951 New South Wales [6]

Origin

In 1964 the president of the New South Wales Ice Hockey Association, Harry Curtis, donated the Jim Brown Shield for the interstate junior ice hockey tournament aged 18 years and under in the name of James Archibald "Jimmy" Brown who had died five years before. [7]

Currently the trophy is referred to as the Jim Brown Shield and as of the 2015 season it is competed for by men aged 17 years and older with the exception that AIHL players aged 24 years and older must have played less than 6 AIHL games.

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References

  1. ↑ "Brown Open Mens". Ice Hockey Australia. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Ice Hockey - Brown Relay Conditions". The Age . 26 July 1935. Retrieved 22 October 2015.
  3. ↑ "Ice Hockey Championships". Sporting Globe. 19 June 1937. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
  4. ↑ "Interstate Ice Hockey Like Boatrace". referee. 13 August 1936. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
  5. ↑ "New South Wales Ice Hockey-History". New South Wales Ice Hockey - History. Archived from the original on 13 January 2016. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
  6. ↑ "Another Ice Hockey Win". Sydney Morning Herald . 21 September 1951. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  7. ↑ "The J.E. Goodall Cup Centenary Souvenir Publication (1909-2009)" (PDF). Ice Hockey Australia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 March 2015. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
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