Before the season ended, however, the Maroons were suspended by NFL commissioner Joseph Carr, thus denying them the championship title.

In addition to the use of the ravine, resembling what Jamaicans call a " cockpit ", Maroons were skilled at disguising themselves as bushes and trees.

The Maroons then jumped out to a 9-1-1 record.

That same year, the surviving members of the Maroons carved their own championship trophy out of coal and presented it to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, where it can be seen today.

Bill Harley, the former owner of the Toldeo Maroons, was granted the right to manage the Louisville Colonel operation out of Chicago, while Hertman still owned the team.

He then shut out the Maroons again in the second game, and allowed Detroit to complete a three-game sweep by allowing only one goal.

However, they missed out on a playoff berth since the Montreal Maroons had two more wins ; wins are the NHL's first tiebreaker for playoff seeding.

At the same time, the last Canadian team left the league in 1952, when the Chatham Maroons pulled out.

Over this twenty-nine season period the club has won 3 premierships, ( out of 5 Grand Finals played ), received 1 wooden spoon and had a total of 15 of its players ( 9 New South Wales Blues and 6 Queensland Maroons ) selected to don the green and gold for Australia.

Expectations were high for the defending Stanley Cup champions, but Montreal's other NHL team, the Montreal Maroons, were too strong for Victoria handily beating them three games to one and out scoring them 10 to 3.

Old Nanny Town ( now called Moore Town ) was a village in the Blue Mountains of Portland Parish, north-eastern Jamaica, used as a stronghold for Maroons ( escaped slaves ) led by Granny Nanny ; the town held out against repeated British attacks before being destroyed in 1734.

This was done by having non disguised Maroons run out into view of the British and then run in the direction of the fellow Maroons who were disguised, thus crushing the British time and time again.

This was done by having non-disguised Maroons run out into view of the British and then run in the direction of the fellow Maroons who were disguised.

Land is owned by these matrilineal clans ( lo ), based on claims staked out in the early 18th century as the original Maroons fled southward to freedom.

This late-20th century fieldwork complements the modern fieldwork carried out among other groups of Suriname Maroons, such as the Ndyuka ethnography of Bonno and Ineke Thoden van Velzen.

Montréal and Vancouver's uniforms arose out of esoteric decisions — the Montréal Canadiens, Montréal Alouettes, and Montréal Expos had all adopted Red, White, and Blue color schemes, whereas the Montréal team wears Brown and Red uniforms that might suggest the old Montréal Maroons ' uniforms.

Born in Montreal, Quebec, Stewart began play as an amateur at age 18 for the Cleveland Indians of the United States Amateur Hockey Association, leading the league in goals scored in four out of the five seasons he played before he and Babe Siebert were signed by the expansion Montreal Maroons of the NHL in 1925.

Because he had played senior hockey out west, his playing rights belonged to the PCHA, but he was allowed to play the season for Ottawa on condition he then play for the Vancouver Maroons in following seasons.

In 1800, the Nova Scotians rebelled and it was the arrival of the 500 Jamaican Maroons which caused the rebellion to be suppressed.

A contemporary description of the war between the Maroons and the plantation owners in Suriname can be found in Narrative of a Five Years Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam by John Gabriel Stedman.

Famous historic slave rebellions have been led by the Roman slave Spartacus ; the thrall Tunni who rebelled against the Swedish monarch Ongentheow, a rebellion that needed Danish assistance to be quelled ; the poet-prophet Ali bin Muhammad, who led imported east African slaves in Iraq during the Zanj Rebellion against the Abbasid Caliphate in the ninth century ; Granny Nanny of the Maroons who rebelled against the British in Jamaica ; the Haitian Revolution, the only slave revolt which led to the founding of a country ; Denmark Vesey in South Carolina, USA ; and Madison Washington during the Creole case in 19th century America.

In 1800, the Nova Scotians rebelled and it was the arrival of the 500 Jamaican Maroons which caused the rebellion to be suppressed.

This game would also be used to state that the Pottsville Maroons should have won the 1925 NFL Championship.

Some of the best players of the era played for the Maroons ; eleven players would be elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame, while five of the six head coaches of the Maroons were also honoured.

In September 1937, president of the Maroons Donat Raymond said the team would be staying in Montreal.

* Jamaican Maroon Spirit Possession Language, spoken by Jamaican Maroons, the descendants of runaway slaves in the mountains of Jamaica, during their " Kromanti Play ," a ceremony in which the participants are said to be possessed by their ancestors and to speak as their ancestors did centuries ago.

The Maroons at Nanny town also organized look-outs for such an attack as well as designated warriors who could be summoned by the sound of a horn called an Abeng.

The Maroons at Nanny Town also organized look-outs for such an attack as well as designated warriors who could be summoned by the sound of a horn called an Abeng.

It proved to be his last season with the Maroons, as the team was struggling financially and chose to sell him to the New York Rangers for cash.

As a member of the Maroons, Hooley would be a part of one of the best early forward lines in NHL history, the " S " line.

Principals of the Arena Company, such as William Northey, would later be involved in the building of the Montreal Forum and the founding of the Montreal Maroons.

Maroons will mostly be found in the neighbourhoods called la Charbonnière ( Djukas, Samarakas and Paramaccans ), les Vampires and les Sables Blancs.

The following year, when all players were again allowed to be selected for representative football, Sailor's debut for the Queensland Maroons came in Game I of the 1996 State of Origin series.

It was rumored that the dormant Montreal Maroons franchise would be transferred to Cleveland but nothing came of it.

After the Maroons were expelled in August 1899, Pawtucket would be without baseball until 1908, although the Colts of the Class C Atlantic Association lasted only 9 games before disbanding and leaving Pawtucket without a team for 6 more seasons.

Eventually the Maroons had their own district at Maroon Town.

Among these movements, the most famous being that of the Maroons, slaves who escaped their masters and in the shelter of the forest communities organized free communities.

Eventually the Maroons would have their own district at Maroon Town, Freetown.

In only their second season, the Rangers won the Stanley Cup, defeating the Montreal Maroons three games to two.

On December 1, 1924, the new Bruins team played their first NHL game against the Maroons, at Boston Arena, with the Bruins winning the game by a 2 – 1 score.

The Menominee Maroons won the state championship in its division for basketball in 1967 and football in 1998, 2006 and 2007. In the 2006 season the Maroons finished unbeaten and only allowed 38 points scored against them but their offense scored 513 point in that entire season.

A dispute arose over a game that the nearby Pottsville Maroons had played against the Notre Dame All-Stars in Philadelphia ; the Yellow Jackets asserted that their nearby rivals had infringed on their territorial rights by playing the game against a non-league opponent in Philadelphia.

Frankford then had to play their final game of the season against the Pottsville Maroons, who were still upset after their NFL championship title had been stripped from them after complaints from Frankford.

During the 1924 Anthracite League season, the Maroons added three members of the NFL's 1923 Canton Bulldogs championship team to their roster.

Rochester managed to defeat Pottsville 10-7, giving the Maroons their only loss of the season.

Since many Maroons players moved back to their NFL teams in 1925, the Maroons recruited several talented players to replace them.

During this time the Maroons insisted that their players live in the Pottsville area.

This helped the Maroons to a 28-0 win over the Buffalo Bisons in their first NFL game.

When not practicing, the Maroons spent their days hanging around the fire house, drinking Yuengling, playing cards and tossing footballs in the street.

Prior to 1929, the Bulldogs played as the Pottsville Maroons and the teams played for their still loyal fans at the Maroons ' Minersville Park.

During their championship run, the Triangles defeated future NFL teams, the Toledo Maroons, Hammond Pros, Columbus Panhandles and Detroit Heralds.

On October 3, 1924, the Maroons played their first game of the season against the Frankford Yellow Jackets.

Ten Days later the " high-priced " Maroons players were released from their contracts and the original team disbanded.