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1925 Allan Cup

Canadian senior ice hockey championship

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ4561684 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1925 Allan Cup was the senior ice hockey championship for the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA) during the 1924–25 season.

Change in format

In February 1925, CAHA vice-president Frank Sandercock submitted a proposal to change the Allan Cup finals to a best-of-three games format instead of a two-game series decided on total goals scored. Public sentiment at the time was that in a two-game series, a lucky break was enough to decide the series, whereas a best-of-three format was less likely for that to happen. CAHA president Silver Quilty announced that the change was approved by a special vote and was put into effect for the 1925 competition.

Final

Port Arthur Bearcats beat University of Toronto 2-0 on series.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1925 Allan Cup” is canadian senior ice hockey championship. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Allan, Canadian and senior, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1925, 1924—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Allan, Canadian and senior is the immediate research focus.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4561684. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1925 and 1924.

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This entry incorporates text from “1925 Allan Cup” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.