History
The history of ice hockey in Australia can be traced to the opening, in 1904, of the country's first ice rink in Adelaide, South Australia, where informal games of bandy were first played. The first organised game of the Canadian sport of ice hockey was held in Melbourne on the 12th of July, 1906, between a local Melbourne team and a team from the crew of a visiting United States warship, the USS Baltimore.
In 1909 state teams from Victoria and New South Wales first contested the Goodall Cup, which has since served continuously as the trophy awarded to the winners of the annual national competition (with hiatuses for the two World Wars, the closure of the Sydney Glaciarium in the late 1950s and for a single year in 1993), thus making the Goodall Cup the third-oldest still awarded ice hockey trophy in the world, and the oldest outside of Canada.
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