1930 World Ice Hockey Championships
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The 1930 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships
were held between January 30 and February 10, 1930 in Chamonix
, France
, Vienna
, Austria
and Berlin
, Germany
. This event was the first world championships independent of the Olympics.
Canada, represented by the Toronto CCMs
, beat the German team in the gold medal match by a score of 6 to 1 to win the title.
The World Championships
1930
Berlin, Vienna, Chamonix
This was the first World Championship tournament arranged by the IIHF on its own, though from 1920 til 1968 the Olympic tournament was considered as a World Championship too. The situation in the USA was like the Wall Street crash; one of the leaders was worried, if the American hockey would survive til the 1932 Lake Placid Olympics. So; no US team this time. According to common knowledge, Canada was being presented by the Allan Cup winner: Port Arthur Bearcats. It took only a bit over 70 years to correct this mistake. Though the team was the first one to lose an exhibition game against a team from Europe (Austria in a snow storm), that didn’t finally matter. The team won the essential game: the final. Within a bit over six years the Toronto CCM had become one of the top teams in Toronto, after a modest start in the Toronto and York Mercantile League.
Japan entered an international tournament for the first time with the medical students team, but they lost 0-5 for Poland. While the games continued, the natural conditions became intolerable. So one game took place on the artificial ice of Vienna. And the final in Berlin ice palace, a fully covered arena. This was a brilliant coincidence, since Germany was the other team in the first World Championship final. They also opened the goalscoring by Gustav Jaenecke. But inevitably the Canadians, though not being from the top leven of the Allan Cup, won the game 6-1. After the game the captain Howard Armstrong shook hands with his colleague, Gustav Jaenecke, who had broken his collarbone.
Switzerland continued it triumph on medals, because Geromini had made two goals against the Austrians in the Cup-form tournament. But their brand new star, Torriani, couldn’t help his team with his goal against the Germans. Sweden had given up its game against theAustrians. No wonder, since this year even in the birth region of Finnish ice hockey, Tampere in the province of Häme, grass was growing on natural hockey ground even in January!
Canada: Percy Timpson; Wallace Adams, Howard Armstrong, Albert Clayton, Gordon Grant, Joseph Griffin, Donald Hutchinson, Alexander Park(2), Frederick Radke. (1 1 0 0 6-1).
2. Germany: Walter Leinweber; Rudolf Ball, Alfred Heinrich, Heinrich Herker, Gustav Jaenecke(9), Franz Kreisel, Günther Kummetz, Erich Römer, Martin Schröttle, Marquardt Slevogt. (5 4 0 1 14-11).
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The tournament was a direct knock-out playoff. The Canadian team was recognized as being so dominant, such that they did not participate in the play off tournament. Canada was put into the gold medal final game, and the tournament was played to determine an opponent.
Warm winter weather melted the ice in Chamonix
, France
and forced Ligue Internationale de Hockey sur Glace officials to move the tournament to Berlin
, Germany
, and the Sportpalast (which had artificial ice.) Additionally, the fourth place match was played in Vienna
, Austria
, making this the only world hockey championship tournament to take place in three different countries.
The Canadian team: Howard Armstrong (captain), Timpson, Griffin, Radke, Park, Clayton, Adams, Grant, Hutchinson.
Canada played two "friendly" exhibition games to prepare for the final. They lost to Austria 1-0 on February 7 (in Vienna
) and beat Czechoslovakia 14-1 on February 9 (in Berlin.) The loss to Austria was the first time any Canadian team had ever lost to a European team.
Ice Hockey World Championships
The Ice Hockey World Championships are an annual ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation . First officially held at the 1920 Summer Olympics, it is the sport's highest profile annual international tournament. The IIHF was created in 1908 while the European...
were held between January 30 and February 10, 1930 in Chamonix
Chamonix
Chamonix-Mont-Blanc or, more commonly, Chamonix is a commune in the Haute-Savoie département in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. It was the site of the 1924 Winter Olympics, the first Winter Olympics...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, Vienna
Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
, Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
and Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
. This event was the first world championships independent of the Olympics.
Canada, represented by the Toronto CCMs
Toronto CCMs
The Toronto CCMs were a senior men's amateur ice hockey team that represented Canada at the 1930 World Ice Hockey Championships held in Germany. The team won the gold medal by defeating Germany by a score of 6-1 in the gold medal game....
, beat the German team in the gold medal match by a score of 6 to 1 to win the title.
Standings
| Place | Team | GP | W | T | L | GF | GA | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | Canada | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 2 |
| Silver | Germany Germany men's national ice hockey team The German men's national ice hockey team first participated in serious international competition at the 1911 European Hockey Championship. When Germany was split after World War II, a separate East German national ice hockey team existed until 1990... |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Bronze | Switzerland | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 4th | Austria | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 5th | Poland | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 6th | France | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 7th | Czechoslovakia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 8th | Hungary | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 9th | Japan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 10th | Great Britain | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| 11th | Italy | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 12th | Belgium | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
The World Championships
1930
Berlin, Vienna, Chamonix
This was the first World Championship tournament arranged by the IIHF on its own, though from 1920 til 1968 the Olympic tournament was considered as a World Championship too. The situation in the USA was like the Wall Street crash; one of the leaders was worried, if the American hockey would survive til the 1932 Lake Placid Olympics. So; no US team this time. According to common knowledge, Canada was being presented by the Allan Cup winner: Port Arthur Bearcats. It took only a bit over 70 years to correct this mistake. Though the team was the first one to lose an exhibition game against a team from Europe (Austria in a snow storm), that didn’t finally matter. The team won the essential game: the final. Within a bit over six years the Toronto CCM had become one of the top teams in Toronto, after a modest start in the Toronto and York Mercantile League.
Japan entered an international tournament for the first time with the medical students team, but they lost 0-5 for Poland. While the games continued, the natural conditions became intolerable. So one game took place on the artificial ice of Vienna. And the final in Berlin ice palace, a fully covered arena. This was a brilliant coincidence, since Germany was the other team in the first World Championship final. They also opened the goalscoring by Gustav Jaenecke. But inevitably the Canadians, though not being from the top leven of the Allan Cup, won the game 6-1. After the game the captain Howard Armstrong shook hands with his colleague, Gustav Jaenecke, who had broken his collarbone.
Switzerland continued it triumph on medals, because Geromini had made two goals against the Austrians in the Cup-form tournament. But their brand new star, Torriani, couldn’t help his team with his goal against the Germans. Sweden had given up its game against theAustrians. No wonder, since this year even in the birth region of Finnish ice hockey, Tampere in the province of Häme, grass was growing on natural hockey ground even in January!
Canada: Percy Timpson; Wallace Adams, Howard Armstrong, Albert Clayton, Gordon Grant, Joseph Griffin, Donald Hutchinson, Alexander Park(2), Frederick Radke. (1 1 0 0 6-1).
2. Germany: Walter Leinweber; Rudolf Ball, Alfred Heinrich, Heinrich Herker, Gustav Jaenecke(9), Franz Kreisel, Günther Kummetz, Erich Römer, Martin Schröttle, Marquardt Slevogt. (5 4 0 1 14-11).
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Final tournament
| First round | |||||
| 31. January 1930 | Chamonix Chamonix Chamonix-Mont-Blanc or, more commonly, Chamonix is a commune in the Haute-Savoie département in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. It was the site of the 1924 Winter Olympics, the first Winter Olympics... |
– | 4:2 | ||
| 31. January 1930 | Chamonix Chamonix Chamonix-Mont-Blanc or, more commonly, Chamonix is a commune in the Haute-Savoie département in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. It was the site of the 1924 Winter Olympics, the first Winter Olympics... |
– | 2:0 | ||
| 31. January 1930 | Chamonix Chamonix Chamonix-Mont-Blanc or, more commonly, Chamonix is a commune in the Haute-Savoie département in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. It was the site of the 1924 Winter Olympics, the first Winter Olympics... |
– | 4:1 | ||
| Quarterfinals | |||||
| 1. February 1930 | Chamonix Chamonix Chamonix-Mont-Blanc or, more commonly, Chamonix is a commune in the Haute-Savoie département in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. It was the site of the 1924 Winter Olympics, the first Winter Olympics... |
– | 5:0 | ||
| 1. February 1930 | Chamonix Chamonix Chamonix-Mont-Blanc or, more commonly, Chamonix is a commune in the Haute-Savoie département in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. It was the site of the 1924 Winter Olympics, the first Winter Olympics... |
– | 3:1 | ||
| 1. February 1930 | Chamonix Chamonix Chamonix-Mont-Blanc or, more commonly, Chamonix is a commune in the Haute-Savoie département in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. It was the site of the 1924 Winter Olympics, the first Winter Olympics... |
– | 4:1 | ||
| 1. February 1930 | Chamonix Chamonix Chamonix-Mont-Blanc or, more commonly, Chamonix is a commune in the Haute-Savoie département in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. It was the site of the 1924 Winter Olympics, the first Winter Olympics... |
– | 1:2 | ||
| Semifinals | |||||
| 2. February 1930 | Chamonix Chamonix Chamonix-Mont-Blanc or, more commonly, Chamonix is a commune in the Haute-Savoie département in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. It was the site of the 1924 Winter Olympics, the first Winter Olympics... |
– | 2:1 | ||
| 2. Februar 1930 | Chamonix Chamonix Chamonix-Mont-Blanc or, more commonly, Chamonix is a commune in the Haute-Savoie département in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. It was the site of the 1924 Winter Olympics, the first Winter Olympics... |
– | 3:1 | ||
| 4th place | |||||
| 5. February 1930 | Vienna Vienna Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre... |
– | 2:0 | ||
| Final | |||||
| 9. February 1930 | Berlin Berlin Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union... |
– | 2:1 |
Final
| 10. February 1930 | Berlin Berlin Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union... |
– | 1:6 |
The tournament was a direct knock-out playoff. The Canadian team was recognized as being so dominant, such that they did not participate in the play off tournament. Canada was put into the gold medal final game, and the tournament was played to determine an opponent.
Warm winter weather melted the ice in Chamonix
Chamonix
Chamonix-Mont-Blanc or, more commonly, Chamonix is a commune in the Haute-Savoie département in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. It was the site of the 1924 Winter Olympics, the first Winter Olympics...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
and forced Ligue Internationale de Hockey sur Glace officials to move the tournament to Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, and the Sportpalast (which had artificial ice.) Additionally, the fourth place match was played in Vienna
Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
, Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
, making this the only world hockey championship tournament to take place in three different countries.
The Canadian team: Howard Armstrong (captain), Timpson, Griffin, Radke, Park, Clayton, Adams, Grant, Hutchinson.
Canada played two "friendly" exhibition games to prepare for the final. They lost to Austria 1-0 on February 7 (in Vienna
Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
) and beat Czechoslovakia 14-1 on February 9 (in Berlin.) The loss to Austria was the first time any Canadian team had ever lost to a European team.
Final ranking
| RF | Team |
|---|---|
| 1 | |
| 2 | |
| 3 | |
| 4 | |
| 5 | |
| 6 | |
| 6 | |
| 6 | |
| 6 | |
| 10 | |
| 10 | |
| 10 |
Champion
World champion 1930 Canada Canada Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean... |
Gordon Grant, Alex Park, Howard Armstrong (C), Joe Griffin, Willie Adams, Bert Clayton, Fred Radke, Percy Timpson; Coach: Les Allen |
|---|
European final ranking
| RF | Team |
|---|---|
| 1 | |
| 2 | |
| 3 | |
| 4 | |
| 5 | |
| 5 | |
| 5 | |
| 8 | |
| 8 | |
| 8 |