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194647 Hockey Team Maritime Champions Athletics Main Site University of Prince Edward Island UPEI Home Future Students Current Students Alumni & Friends Parents & Family Staff & Faculty Contacts SuckerfishHome Campus Recreation & Club Sports Athletics Facilities Schedule & Scores Athlete of the Week Contact Us Partnerships Box Office Recruitment Panther Sport TeamsMens Soccer Womens Soccer Womens Rugby Field Hockey Mens Basketball Womens Basketball Mens Hockey Womens Hockey Swimming 194647 Hockey Team Maritime ChampionsMain NavigationAthletics Headlines UPEI Athletes Only Sports Centre Programs Sports Centre Hours Fitness and Wellness UPEI Sports Hall of Fame Summer Camps Student Athletic Council 2001Inductee 194647 St Dunstans Represented by Brighton MacDougall Reg Rogers Allister MacIsaac and Frank Strain and Frank MacKinnon and Des Burge in absentia In addition several family members of deceased players and coaches were present They were asked to please stand at which time Roger Younker thanked them for sharing this evening with us Citation and plaque presentation by Don MacKenzie banner presentation by Jack MacDougall A piece of Island sports history was made on the ice of the Charlottetown Forum on the night of March 12 1947 when the St Dunstans University Saints captured the Maritime Hockey championship defeating St Francis Xavier 86 It was the first time that an Island team had won the Maritime championship in any sport And it was all the more sweet because St F X was highly favoured among the regions hockey experts as they went into the onegame winnertakeall championship However someone must have forgotten to tell the Saints because the Island squad came to win Under the direction of coach Jack Kane Sr SDU played the powerful Nova Scotia squad to a 3 3 tie after one period before leaping to a 63 lead after two St F X would storm back in the third to trail 76 before St Dunstans sealed the win with less than a minute left when Reg Rogers fired a 10footer into the corner of the net much to the delight of the 3000 fans jammed into the Forum As former team member and newspaper columnist Bill Ledwell wrote in The Evening Patriot many years later They declared a rare holiday at Saint Dunstans University the hockey players were told they didnt have to come home until morning (1130 pm was the deadline then) and wholesale uninhibited bedlam erupted everywhere Joe Mahar a rugged winger from Charlottetown was the hero that night scoring four goals but it was unquestionably a team effort as the nucleus of PEI players combined with a few from Nova Scotia and Quebec accomplished this Prince Edward Island first Tonight we are pleased to induct the 194647 St Dunstans Hockey Team into the UPEI Sports Hall of Fame UPEI Hall Of Fame Inductees2008Dick Tingley ...