The Galt Black Hawks were a junior ice hockey team based in Galt, Ontario, now a part of the city of Cambridge. They played in the Ontario Hockey Association from 1949 to 1955 and were operated as an affiliate of the Chicago Black Hawks. Their home arena was the Galt Arena Gardens.
The team originated as the Galt Canadians, then became Galt Red Wings when affiliated as a farm team for the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League. Subsequently playing as the Galt Rockets when affiliated for two seasons with the Philadelphia Rockets of the American Hockey League, the team was sponsored by the Chicago Black Hawks from 1949 until 1955.
Bobby Hull played for Galt in 1954âÂÂ55, and is the only alumnus in the Hockey Hall of Fame as a player. Former alumnus Murray Costello was inducted as a builder as the long-serving president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association. Jim McBurney won the Eddie Powers Memorial Trophy in 1952âÂÂ53, as the OHA junior division scoring champion with 61 goals and 35 assists.
From the Galt Black Hawks, twenty-one players graduated to play in the National Hockey League (NHL):
Regular season results: