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The Federal Amateur Hockey League was a Canadian men's senior-level Ice Hockey league that played six seasons from 1904 to 1909. The league was a professional league for its last year and was known as the ''Federal Hockey League.'' HISTORY The league was formed December 5th, 1903, at a meeting held at the Savoy hotel in Montreal. The first executive officers were:
The first franchises were granted to the Wanderers, the Capitals, Cornwall and the Nationals. Three of the four teams had been rejected for membership by the Canadian Amateur Hockey League , while the fourth—the Montreal Wanderers —was comprised of disillusioned players from two Montreal-based CAHL teams. Only the Cornwall team would still be a member of the league at the end of the final 1906-07 season. The Stanley Cup -champion Ottawa Senators , aka ''Ottawa Silver Seven'' jumped from the CAHL to the FAHL for the 1904-05 season, while the Montreal Nationals went in the opposite direction and joined the CAHL. The 1906-07 season ended early following the death of Owen McCourt of Cornwall, after an on-ice brawl in a game March 6, 1907 between Cornwall and the Ottawa Victorias. This led to criminal charges of Manslaughter against Charles Masson of the Victorias, however he was acquitted as witnesses stated at the trial that other Ottawa hockey players had hit Mr. McCourt in the head prior to Mr. Masson's blow. The Federal Amateur Hockey League continued for one season in 1907-08, then went professional for the 1908-09 season. Renfrew of the Upper Ottawa Valley Hockey League joined for that season. The league dissolved afterwards and Renfrew joined the NHA . TEAMS
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