While its unknown if this story is true, what is known is that two years later, Creighton led two contingents of McGill students onto the Victoria Rink for the first indoor ice hockey game in history.
Initially there was some fear for the safety of spectators as previous similar games had shown a tendency for a ball to fly about in a dangerous manner.
McGill won the world's first ice hockey championship and received the Winter Carnival Cup, which is on display at the McCord Stewart Museum in Montreal.
In 1954, however, most Canadian schools switched entirely to college matches and McGill became an inaugural member of the Quebec-Ontario Athletic Association (QOAA).
The team continued on with the conference until 1971 when the leagues were realigned along provincial borders and McGill joined the newly-created Quebec Universities Athletic Association.
While this was initially intended as a reference to the hair color of the school's founder, James McGill, the allusions to native peoples were unavoidable.
[10] Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points † The International Intercollegiate League (IIL) was a joint venture between Canadian and American colleges.