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Uploaded By: PRESIDENT on October 9th, 2015

Dominion Bank Hockey Club
Senior Champions Bank Hockey League of Toronto.
Bogart Cup Champions 1921
Emblematic of the Bank Championship of Canada
Bank Managers Challenge Cup Winners 1921

Team Roster
Lionel P. Conacher (captain), Frank Cochran, Charles "Chas" Reaves, Don Jeffery, H. W. "Billy" Burch, G. Crowther, S. Burt, John Aggett, C. Stone

In the Toronto Bank Hockey League, the Dominion Bank defeated the Canadian Bank of Commerce in a best of seven championship series. The Dominion Bank team then played a 2 game, total point series against the Royal Bank team, which had won the senior Montreal Bankers Hockey League championship for the newly offered Bogart Cup. The total points were even after the 2 games, and a tiebreaker was played in Toronto before a crowd of 5000.

The leagues symbolized much more then corporate pride: they evolved into a sophisticated promotional tool. The Toronto Star and the Montreal Star, as well as other local dailies, reported on league play early in the 1920s.

The Canadian Bankers Hockey Association Challenge Cup was first presented for competition by Clarence A. Bogart, General Manager of the Dominion Bank of Canada and then President of the Canadian Bankers Association in 1921. Awarded annually, the Cup was last presented in 1938 and is now on exhibit at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto.

Some players went on to professional Hockey careers. Lionel P. Conacher (not to be confused with his all-star, Hockey Hall of Fame brother, Charlie Conacher) was a member of the Dominion Bank's 1921 championship team, and later played defense for the New York Americans and the Montreal Maroons between 1925 and 1937.

Other Hockey players would become senior executives in banks. The Bogart Cup was named after Clarence A. Bogart, a player on the original 1891 Dominion Bank team, and would eventually become the bank's president.

Sourced from http://collectionscanada.gc.ca. Credited to T. Eaton Co..

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