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1926 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 authorityQ4561859 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1926 Allan Cup was the Canadian senior ice hockey championship for the 1925–26 season. The final was contested between the Port Arthur Bearcats and the Toronto Varsity Blues men's ice hockey. Port Arthur won the series two games to one, with one game tied.

Final

Port Arthur 1 University of Toronto 0

University of Toronto 3 Port Arthur 1

University of Toronto 3 Port Arthur 3

Port Arthur 3 University of Toronto 2

Port Arthur Bearcats beat University of Toronto 2–1, 1 tie on series.

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The public source identifies “1926 Allan Cup” as canadian senior ice hockey championship. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Allan, Canadian and senior.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1926, 1925—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Allan, Canadian and senior providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4561859. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1926 and 1925.

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This entry incorporates text from “1926 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.