[5] When the Owen Sound Georgians joined the Ontario Senior A Lacrosse League in 1946, they brought with them a young and unknown teenage goaltender named Lloyd Wootton.
As many of the veterans left the Crescents in the winter after they won the Mann Cup, Wootton, Jack "Curly" Mason, and Russ Slater were transferred to the Peterborough Trailermen.
The Trailermen would sweep aside the Orillia Terriers and make quick work of the Athletics (five games) to win a third straight title.
He would be named the OLA's top player, first team all-star, and win the first ever Harry Lumley Award for best goals against, but would lose the Mann Cup and end his five-year streak in five games to the Victoria Shamrocks.
League leading scorer Bob Allan (thought to be the top player of the era)[14] transferred without release from the Western Lacrosse Association to Peteroborough.
Peterborough refused to take the floor without him, so the CLA replaced them with the runner-up and rusty Long Branch Pontiacs and banned the entire Trailermen team (including Wootton) from play for five years.
They would win Wootton a fourth Harry Lumley Award and a ninth OLA championship but again fall in the Mann Cup final in four games to the New Westminster O'Keefes.
[1] He had seven children with his wife, Florence Wilhelm Wootton, who resided in Port Hope, Ontario until she died in February 2016.