John Edwin Goodall

John Edwin Goodall (1893 St Kilda, Victoria, Australia - 1960 in Brighton, Victoria, Australia) was an Australian ice hockey player, president of the Australian Ice Hockey Association (since 1923 ), and founder of the Goodall Cup which he donated to the annual inter-state ice hockey tournament when he was 16 years old.

Early life
John Edwin Goodall was born in 1893 to Dr Charles Edwin Goodall and Ada Jessie Dougharty of Dickens Street, St Kilda, Victoria Australia. John grew up on Dickens Street and attended Melbourne Grammar School.

Playing Hockey
John Edwin Goodall first played ice hockey for the Melbournians IHC, which formed in 1908.

The first recorded game he played in was in 1910 when he played for the Victorian State team at 17 years old. This Victorian State team was captained by Robert Jackson, in its second season as a hockey team. John continued to play for the Victoria State team for 3 more years up until 1913, where the sport was interrupted by World War I, which began July 28, 1914 and ended 11 November 1918. John returned to the Victorian State team in 1921 with team mates Ted Molony and Gordon Langridge in his first game back. Victoria and New South Wales were the first teams to form after the war.

In 1922, John E. Goodall became the Captain of the Victorian State team and led them to victory to win back the Goodall Cup in a 3-game series hosted in the Melbourne Glaciarium on Monday July 24, 1922. This was the fourth Goodall Cup win for Victoria, the results were:

Game 1 Victoria 4 - New South Wales 1 Game 2 Victoria 3 - New South Wales 0 Goals Scored: 2 - Victor Langsford 1 - Ernest A Collins Game 3 Victoria 0 - New South Wales 0

In 1925, John E. Goodall was succeeded as Victorian State Captain by team mate Ted Maloney but was still selected for the Victoria State team and played. By this time he was 32 years old and had played hockey for at least 15 years.

President
John Edwin Goodall had become President of the Victorian Ice Hockey Association (VIHA) by the time the New South Wales Association had met with delegates of the Victorian Ice Hockey Association after the Interstate Series in July 29, 1922 in Melbourne.

During the 1923 Goodall Cup series in Sydney, won by New South Wales, John Edwin Goodall became president of the first national authority for Ice Hockey and Speed Skating - the Ice Hockey and Speed Skating Council.

Skating
John Goodall became the fourth National Ice Skating Association of Australia (NISAA) National Men's Skating Champion in 1914.