- Winnipeg Rangers
The Winnipeg Rangers were a Canadian Junior Hockey Team in the
Manitoba Junior Hockey League . The Rangers won 4Turnbull Cup Championships as Manitoba Junior Champions, 1941, 1943, 1961 & 1966.The 1941 Winnipeg Rangers Hockey Club defeated the
Saskatoon Quakers to win theAbbott Cup and earned the right to represent the west in theMemorial Cup . They went on to defeat the Montreal Royals winning 7-4 in the fifth and deciding game.Roster:
Baldy Northcott (Coach), Mike Peters (Spare Goal), Hugh Millar (Defence),Glen Harmon (Defence), Bernie Bathgate (Forward),Bill Heindl Sr. (Defence), R.A. "Sammy" Fabro (Forward), Les Hickey (Forward), Bob Ballance (Forward), Hub Macey (Forward), Manning "Babe" Hobday (Defence), Lou Medynski (Forward), Earl Fast (Forward),Doug Baldwin (Defence), Bill Mortimer (Defence), Alan Hay (Forward), Billy Robinson (Forward), and Hal Thompson (Goal), Tommy Bredin (Forward).The 1943 Winnipeg Rangers defeated the
Saskatoon Quakers to win theAbbott Cup . They then went on to beat theOshawa Generals in the sixth game of the best of sevenMemorial Cup championship.Roster: Vernon Smith (Mascot), Joe Peters, Frank Mathers, Ben Juzda, Jack Irvine, Bill Tindall, Stan Warecki, Ritchie McDonald, Bill Boorman (Captain), George Mundrick, Tom Fowler,
Cal Gardner , Jack Taggert, Bill Vickers, Joe Peterson,Church Russell ,Ed Kullman , Doug Jackson, Spence Tatchell, Gus Schwartz, Johnny Gross (Trainer), Henry Borger (VP), Arthur U. Chipman (President),Baldy Northcott (Executive), Bob Kinnear (Coach), Scotty Oliver (GM).The 1941 and 1943 Winnipeg Rangers were inducted into the
Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame in the team category.Because of ice availability the Rangers played in Brandon for start of the 1957-58 season and were called the Brandon Rangers. In January the team moved to Transcona and were renamed the Transcona Rangers. After the 59 season, the named changed back to the Winnipeg Rangers.
On March 18, 1966 at the
Winnipeg Arena , the Rangers won the Turnbull Memorial Cup as MJHL champs.During the summer of 1967, community-minded sports group purchased the Winnipeg Rangers from
Ben Hatskin , ending the Rangers franchise.External links
* [http://www.mbhockeyhalloffame.ca/honoured/champions.html?category=25&id=331 1941 Winnipeg Rangers] at [http://www.mbhockeyhalloffame.ca/index.html Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame]
* [http://www.mbhockeyhalloffame.ca/honoured/champions.html?category=25&id=333 1943 Winnipeg Rangers] at [http://www.mbhockeyhalloffame.ca/index.html Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame]
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