Berlin Dutchmen

Berlin Dutchmen
City	Berlin, Ontario Canada
League	Ontario Professional Hockey League, 1908–1911
Colors	Green, White
Head coach	George Boehmer, 1908 Hugh Lehman, 1910

The Berlin Dutchmen were an early professional ice hockey team operating out of Berlin, Ontario, (renamed Kitchener in 1916) from 1907 in the Ontario Professional Hockey League (OPHL). The Berlin team is notable for challenging for the Stanley Cup in 1910 versus the Montreal Wanderers. The dormant team was revived in 1926 as the Kitchener Dutchmen of the Canadian Professional Hockey League. The dormant name was revived in 1947 as the senior Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen, notable for winning Canada a bronze medal at the 1956 Olympics and a silver medal at the 1960 Olympics. The minor junior Kitchener Dutchmen continue the name today.

"Dutchman" is a misnomer for a Germanic person, from Deutsch (German). This is even more so for Waterloo County, Ontario, as many of the earliest settlers were so-called "Pennsylvania Dutch".

The Dutchmen were one of the founding teams of the OPHL in 1907. Starting play in January 1908, the club would be a member of the OPHL until 1911. The club would win the OPHL championship once, in 1910, giving the team the chance to challenge for the Stanley Cup, then the Canadian professional championship trophy. Berlin played in Montreal against the Wanderers and were defeated 7–3. The OPHL would only survive for only one year before folding.

The name was revived in 1927 as the Kitchener Dutchmen, a professional team in the Canadian Professional Hockey League (which became the International Hockey League). In 1929, the franchise was moved to Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the Cleveland Indians and eventually the Cleveland Barons of the American Hockey League.

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