The Winnipeg Rowing Club is a rowing club

Rowing club

A rowing club is a club for people interested in the sport of Rowing. Rowing clubs are usually located near a body of water, whether natural or artificial, that is large enough for manoeuvering of the shells . Clubs usually have racks to store boats and a dock to put them in the water...

 based in Winnipeg, Manitoba founded in 1881 by cousins John Galt II & George Galt. The club was incorporated on February 2, 1883, with John Norquay

John Norquay

John Norquay was the Premier of Manitoba from 1878 to 1887. He was born near St. Andrews in what was then the Red River Colony, making him the first Premier of Manitoba to have been born in the region....

 as Club Patron, Thomas Renwick as President, and George Galt as Club Captain.

From 1902 to 1906, the Winnipeg Rowing Club had an ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 team in the Manitoba Hockey Association

Manitoba Hockey Association

The Manitoba Hockey Association was an early men's senior ice hockey league playing around 1900 in Manitoba, Canada. The league started as an elite amateur league in 1892, became professional in 1905, had a professional and an amateur league in 1908–09 and only an amateur league from 1909 until...

. They were league champions in 1903 and 1904 and challenged the Ottawa Silver Seven

Ottawa Senators (original)

The Ottawa Senators were an amateur, and later, professional, ice hockey team based in Ottawa, Canada which existed from 1883 to 1954. The club was the first hockey club in Ontario, a founding member of the National Hockey League and played in the NHL from 1917 until 1934...

 for the Stanley Cup

Stanley Cup

The Stanley Cup is an ice hockey club trophy, awarded annually to the National Hockey League playoffs champion after the conclusion of the Stanley Cup Finals. It has been referred to as The Cup, Lord Stanley's Cup, The Holy Grail, or facetiously as Lord Stanley's Mug...

 in 1904. Players on the team that challenged for the Stanley Cup include William Breen and Hockey Hall of Fame

Hockey Hall of Fame

The Hockey Hall of Fame is located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Dedicated to the history of ice hockey, it is both a museum and a hall of fame. It holds exhibits about players, teams, National Hockey League records, memorabilia and NHL trophies, including the Stanley Cup...

r Joe Hall

Joe Hall

Joseph Henry Hall , nicknamed Bad Joe Hall, was a professional ice hockey defenceman who played professionally from 1904 until 1919 when he died as a result of the influenza epidemic...

.

1904 Stanley Cup Challenge

Date	Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Location
December 30, 1903	Ottawa Senators	9–1	Winnipeg Rowing Club	Aberdeen Pavilion Aberdeen Pavilion The Aberdeen Pavilion is an exhibition hall in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Overlooking the Rideau Canal, it is located in Lansdowne Park, Ottawa's historic fairgrounds... , Ottawa
January 1, 1904	Winnipeg Rowing Club	6–2	Ottawa
January 4, 1904	Ottawa Senators	2–0	Winnipeg Rowing Club
Ottawa wins best-of-three series 2 games to 1

Roster

• Brown, A. - goal
• Brown, P. E. - point
• Richards, S. C. - coverpoint
• William Breen - forward (captain)
• Joe Hall
  Joe Hall
  Joseph Henry Hall , nicknamed Bad Joe Hall, was a professional ice hockey defenceman who played professionally from 1904 until 1919 when he died as a result of the influenza epidemic...
  
   - forward
• Billy Bawlf
  Billy Bawlf
  Billy Richard Bawlf was a Canadian ice hockey player in the early 1900s. He was a member of the 1905 Ottawa Silver Sevens Stanley Cup championship team.-Playing career:...
  
  - forward
• Claude Borland - forward
• Bennest, C. E - forward
• Kirby - forward.

Source: Coleman(1966), pg. 99–100. (Coleman list Nick Bawlf instead of Billy Bawlf)

After the first game of the series, Winnipeg added Hamber from the Toronto Argonauts ice hockey team.