Jim Brown Shield Essay

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In 1964, the Jim Brown Shield for Interstate junior ice hockey was presented by the president of the NSW association, Harry Curtis. The inaugural tournament was held in Brisbane during Warrana Festival week and won by Victoria. The trophy was intended to perpetuate the memory of Australian ice hockey and speed skating legend, Jim Brown. Curtis had competed against him on many occasions with Glebe IHC. Today, the Jim Brown Shield is presented as the Brown Trophy to winners of the Australian 20 and under ice hockey championship and, in earlier years, it had been presented to the Senior B Australian Championship winner. Five years later in 1969, the national association introduced a junior national series for the Under-18 age band, following the formation and success of the NSW Homebush Juniors IHC among the various prior endeavours to organize interstate matches. The first series was played in 1969 at Canterbury ice rink, and the second at Prince Alfred Park. Victoria won both games and John Horsnell of Victoria was named 'Best and Fairest'. The trophy was presented by three former NSW players and administrators Ken Kennedy, Jim Mortimor and Mark Murphy. It was their desire to name it after Sydney Tange whose interest in junior development had spanned twenty years. Tange’s involvement in the sport had stretched back to 1937 when he joined the …show more content…

The inaugural series was hosted in Adelaide and the original trophy was presented by the president of the national association, Philip Raleigh Ginsberg AM (1923-98). The President's Cup was renamed in his memory after his death in 1998 at Balmoral Beach, NSW. He was a life member of the association who had held office since 1981. Born at Wellington in New Zealand, his Medal of the Order of Australia was conferred on June 10th, 1985 at Mosman, NSW 'for service to the sport of ice

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