Gordon McMillan

[3] McMillan, described as the team's "star centre" and a "starry redhead who is the mainspring of the Moose Jaw attack," was left behind in Moose Jaw because his father was seriously ill.[3] However, he arrived in Lethbridge by plane on the morning of the first game,[3] and scored four goals and an assist, as his heads-up hockey and "fast break-aways kept the crowd in a dither.

[5] One month after the championship, McMillan's 42-year-old father, a hockey coach who had been recently discharged from the Royal Canadian Air Force, died in Moose Jaw.

[7] As a freshman in January 1946, McMillan and teammate Wally Grant both scored hat tricks in a game against McMaster University from Hamilton, Ontario.

[8] As a junior in 1948, McMillan broke Michigan's all-time scoring record, which had been set by the team's coach, Vic Heyliger, with 116 points.

[10][12] The hockey title capped off a year in which Michigan had also won the Rose Bowl and the conference basketball championship.