Legacy
The WPHL was the first league to openly hire hockey players, and may have been involved in the first trade involving professional hockey players. However, several of league's alumni continued to make hockey history on both local and national stage. In 1915, the WPHL's Arthur Sixsmith managed an ice hockey team for Pittsburgh's Winter Garden at Exposition Hall. Several of the players on that team began their careers in the WPHL, including Arthur's brother Garnet Sixsmith. The team lasted on only one season. Also in 1915, Roy Schooley, a referee in the WPHL, formed the Pittsburgh Yellow Jackets, which won two United States Amateur Hockey Association titles in 1924 and 1925, before morphing into the Pittsburgh Pirates of the NHL. In 1920, Schooley also put together the very first U.S. Olympic ice hockey team. On November 16, 1935, Garnet Sixsmith, dropped the ceremonial first puck, honoring the WPHL, at the Duquesne Gardens, for the inaugural home game of the Pittsburgh Shamrocks of the International Hockey League
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