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The most important sporting event in Montreal's history was when Montreal played host to the 1976 Summer Olympics. Montreal hosted the ICF Flatwater Racing World Championships in 1986. In July 2005 Montreal hosted the 11th FINA World Aquatics Championships. In 2006, Montreal hosted the 2006 World Outgames, the first-ever GLISA World Outgames.
[6] [7] In October 1874, the Harvard team once again travelled to Montreal to play McGill in rugby, where they won by three tries. From 1898, McGill played in the Canadian Intercollegiate Rugby Football Union, and won their first championship, the Yates Cup in 1902.
Delorimier Stadium (French pronunciation: [dəlɔʁimje]; also known as Montreal Stadium, Hector Racine Stadium and Delorimier Downs) was a 20,000-seat sports stadium in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was located at 2101 Ontario Street East, at the corner of De Lorimier Avenue in the present-day Montreal borough of Ville-Marie .
In the 2016 CCBA National Tournament, held at Ahuntsic Park in Montreal, the Redmen went 2–1 in pool play, advancing to the semi-finals where they defeated the Saint Mary's Huskies by a score of 21–0, and then defeated the Montreal Carabins in the national championship game 3–2 on a walk-off home run by catcher Christopher Stanford. This ...
The Pearson Cup (French: Coupe Pearson) was an annual midseason Major League Baseball rivalry between former Canadian rivals, the Toronto Blue Jays and Montreal Expos.Named after former Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson, it was originally created to raise money for minor league baseball in Canada.
The Mount Royal Arena (French: Aréna Mont-Royal) was an indoor arena located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada at the corner of Mount Royal and St. Urbain Street. [1] It was home of the National Hockey League (NHL) Montreal Canadiens from 1920 to 1926, before moving to the then two-year-old Montreal Forum. It had a capacity of 6,000 seated, 10,000 ...
On July 5, 1917, Captain Percival Molson (1880–1917), great-grandson of brewer John Molson and a McGill University alumnus and sports star who had been instrumental in getting the stadium plan approved, was killed in action in France. His will left $75,000 to the university to help pay most of the total costs for the completion of the stadium.
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