Training Eis Club

Training Eis Club was founded in Vienna, Austria, sometime before 1897. On January 1, 1897, a release was issued stating that club members who were interested in hockey on the ice, should contact Hans Pfeiffer.

History
A meeting was held on December 16, 1897, at the Restaurant Krautstofl in Vienna, Universitätsstraße, whichone dealt with hockey. Heinrich Kaiser spoke about the new sport. At the end of the meeting a committee of three members was elected to encourage further measures to promote the sport. The committee included Hans Pfeiffer (Training Eis Club), Hermann Fischer (EV Schneerose), and Viktor Seibert (EV Eisblume).

However, a team was not actually formed until 1899. On 26 December 1899, the club played a training match which ended 2:2. Due to mild temperatures during the winter of 1899-1900, no other games were organized that year.

Training Eis Club played against the Bohemian SK Slavia Praha, who travelled to Vienna on February 17, 1901. Prague was then the stronghold of hockey activities in Austria-Hungary. The Wiener Zeitung declared the encounter as a "football match on the ice". Slavia won the game 17-3. It was played in the format of 2x35 minutes.

The club's roster for this match was as follows: Josef Weiß, Max Galler, Gustav Feix, Hermann Galler, Max Eckstein, Gustav Euler, E. Shires, Wagner, and Trinks. Franz Joli (Vienna) served as the official.

A week later, TEC played a match against fellow Viennese club Wiener AC, who they defeated by a score of 19-1.