1947 Goodall Cup Finals

	1	2	3	Total
Victoria	3	3	1	2
New South Wales	1	1	6	1

* – Denotes overtime period(s)

Location(s)

Sydney, Sydney: Sydney Glaciarium

Format

best-of-three

Dates

July 26 – July 31, August 8 - August 12

Series-winning goal

R. Jones

Goodall Cup Finals

The 1947 Goodall Cup was the 26th year that the Australian inter-state ice hockey 3 game series was played. Victoria won the Cup for the first time in 25 years.

The series

Game one

26 July 1947 In front of a packed Sydney Glaciarium the first game was won by Victoria. J. McLauchlan scored for New South Wales in the last minutes of the game.^[1]^[2]

Game two

29 July 1947 Victoria won the 2nd game of the inter-state series and secured the Goodall Cup. Victoria opened with a 2 - 0 lead in the first period with a goal by A. Sengotti and R. Jones. In the second period, New South Wales reduced the lead when G. Thorn scored. In the third period, E. Winter scored for Victoria.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Game three

31 July 1947 In the third game of the series, New South Wales completely outplayed Victoria and won the game 6 - 1. The first two games had been won by Victoria so the Goodall Cup had already been won.^[6]

Game-by-game		Away Team	Score	Home Team	Scoring Summary	Location
1	July 26	Victoria	3 - 1	New South Wales	VIC - A. Sengotti, R. Jones, D. Cunningham NSW - J. McLauchlan	Sydney Glaciarium
2	July 29	Victoria	3 - 1	New South Wales	VIC - A. Sengotti, R. Jones, E. Winter NSW - G. Thorn
3	July 31	Victoria	1 - 6	New South Wales	VIC - W. Harrison NSW -
New South Wales win best-of-six series 5 games to 0

Teams

Victoria

The Victoria team was made from the following players:^[7]

Forwards

A. Sengotta
E. Winter
John Tuckerman
David Cunningham
R. Sullivan
Russel Jones
Noel Derrick

Defence

John Whyte
W. Harrison
C. Mitchell

Goaltender

Russ Carson

New South Wales

The New South Wales team was made from the following players:

S. Green
Geoff Thorne
J. McLauchlan
P. Wendt

References

^ "Ice Hockey Cup". Truth. 27 July 1947. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
^ "Interstate Ice Hockey". The Sun. 27 July 1947. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
^ "Victoria Gets Ice Hockey Cup Back". The Argus (Melbourne). 30 July 1947. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
^ "Ice Hockey - Victoria Regains Goodall Cup". The Age. 30 July 1947. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
^ "Ice Hockey Cup To Victoria". The Sydney Morning Herald. 30 July 1947. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
^ "Ice Hockey". The Age. 1 August 1947. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
^ "Ice Hockey Team For Sydney". The Argus (Melbourne). 8 July 1947. Retrieved 21 September 2016.