The proposed name for the capital's new PWHL team harkens back to the earliest days of women's hockey, a local historian says.
The Ottawa Alerts pose with the Dr. Lorne Robertson trophy after winning the Women’s Ontario Ladies Championship in 1923. Star player Shirley Moulds is seated directly behind the cup. that the nascent Professional Women's Hockey League had filed trademark applications for six team names including the Ottawa Alert, James Powell felt a sense of déjà vu.
Many of the men initially came to mock, but when they saw the quality of the games that turned around pretty quickly.The team drew young women from the Ottawa Ladies' College and the YWCA. Lady Isobel Gathorne-Hardy, in white, battles for the puck in this all-female match at Rideau Hall in 1890. This is believed to be the first photograph depicting women playing hockey. The women's game was still seen as something of a novelty, however, and not everyone viewed it as a suitable pursuit for proper young ladies in the early 20th century.earlier this week.
In 1917, the Alerts travelled to Pittsburgh to take on the Polar Milk Maids, sweeping the three-game "world" series and gaining some international attention. The Alerts lost some of their star players including Moulds to rival teams, and after a disappointing disqualification from the 1930 championship, the team "disappeared from the sports pages of Ottawa newspapers, most likely another casualty of the Depression," according to Powell.Shirley Moulds, photographed here in the 1930s, was an accomplished all-around athlete who was inducted posthumously into the Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame in 2010.
Shirley Moulds was a lifelong resident of Fifth Avenue in the Glebe, and later worked for the federal government. She was also an avid Ottawa Rough Riders fan, and a devotee of quarterback Russ Jackson in particular.The University of Ottawa Gee-Gees women's hockey team poses with the Alerts Cup in January after defeating the Carleton Ravens 4-3. The interuniversity championship has been held intermittently since 2004.
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