- Elmwood Millionaires
The Elmwood Millionaires is a now defunct Canadian Junior Hockey team in the
Manitoba Junior Hockey League . The Millionaires, based inElmwood, Manitoba , won 5 straightTurnbull Cup Championships as Manitoba Junior ‘A’ Champions, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930 & 1931, and a 6th in 1936. The 1929 Elmwood Millionaires won theAbbott Cup as western Canadian junior hockey champions. They went on to lose theMemorial Cup to theToronto Marlboros . The 1931 Elmwood Millionaires defied the odds as they won both theAbbott Cup as Western Champions and theMemorial Cup as National Junior Champs even though they were heavy underdogs.Roster: Duke McDonald, Cliff Workman, Gordie McKenzie, Boyd Johnson, "Spunk" Duncanson, and Earl Adam (Manager), George Brown, Kitson Massey,
Art Rice-Jones ,Bill MacKenzie (Captain),Norm Yellowlees , Archie Creighton, Jack Hughes (Coach).The 1921 and 1931 Elmwood Millionaires were inducted into the
Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame in the team category.NHL Alumni
*George Brown
*Bill Kendall
*Bobby Kirk
*Bill MacKenzie
*Sam McAdam
*Babe Pratt
*Gus Rivers
*Joe Shack External links
* [http://www.mbhockeyhalloffame.ca/honoured/champions.html?category=28&id=343 1929 Elmwood Millionaires] at [http://www.mbhockeyhalloffame.ca/index.html Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame]
* [http://www.mbhockeyhalloffame.ca/honoured/champions.html?category=28&id=327 1931 Elmwood Millionaires] at [http://www.mbhockeyhalloffame.ca/index.html Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame]
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