1st Australian Olympic Ice Hockey Team, Squaw Valley, California, US, 1960
1st Australian Ice Hockey World Championship Team, Squaw Valley, California, 1959-60
2nd Australian Ice Hockey World Championship Team, Colorado, US, 1961-62
Olympic Qualification Team 1963-64
• 1st Australian Olympic Ice Hockey Team, Squaw Valley, California, US, 1960: Ben Acton (1927- ) (C), Ron Amess (1927- ), David Cunningham (1927- ), Noel Derrick (1926- ), Alfred Dewhurst, Vic Ekberg (1932- ), Basil Hansen, Clive Hitch (1931- ), Russell Jones (1926- ), Noel McLoughlin (1929- ), John Nicholas (1928- ), Peter Parrott, Ken Pawley (1940- ), Robert Reid (1932- ), John Thomas, Steve (Zdenek) Tikal (1933- ), Ivan Veseley, Ken Wellman (1930- ), and William McEachern as coach. The team finished 9th and last, scoring 9 goals and conceding 83 from their 6 games. Australia was unfortune to open against Czechoslovakia. The US defeaed CSSR 7-5 the day before. The end result: CSSR 18, Australia 1 (7:1, 3:0, 8:0). Reid in net for Australia played the entire 60 minutes making 64 total saves (17 in the 1st, 21 in the 2nd and 26 saves in 3rd), while the CSSR goalies Vladimir Nadrchal and Vladimir Dvoracek combined for 14 total saves. Cunningham scored 4-2; Jones 2-3; Derrick 2-1; Eckberg 0-2; Thomas 1-0, from 6 games each and Hansen scored 1-0 from 4 games. This was the only Olympic ice hockey team Australia has qualified since the sport first became an Olympic event at the Antwerp Summer Games in 1920. [42]
• 1st Australian Ice Hockey World Championship Team, Squaw Valley, California, 1959-60 (combined with Olympics). Ben Acton (C), Robert Reid (1932- ), Noel McLoughlin (1929- ); John Nicholas (1928- ), Victor Ekberg (1932- ), Basil Hansen, Kenneth Wellman (1930- ); Ronald Amess (1927- ), David Cunningham (1927- ), Noel Derrick (1926- ), Kenneth Pawley (1940- ), Ivan Vesely, John Thomas, Clive Hitch (1931- ), Russell Jones (1926- ), Peter Parrott, Steve (Zdenek) Tikal (1933- ). Head Coach: Bud MacEachern. General Manager: Russell W. Carson (from Canadian Bears, Kenora, Ontario who played St Morits Bombers, Victoria, 1939-40). Japan won gold, Austria won silver and France won Bronze.
• 2nd Australian Ice Hockey World Championship Team, Colorado, US, 1961-62, Kenneth Wellman (1930- ) (C), Peter Cavanagh, Bruce Roderick; Ronald Amess (1927- ), John Purcell, Barry Bourke, Anthony Martyr, Edward Mustar; Kevin Harris, Peter Parrott, Gary Beyko, Robin Dewhurst, William Renton, Victor Mansted, John Thomas, Russell Jones (1926- ), Gary Owen. Head Coach: Bud MacEachern. General Manager: Russsel W. Carson. The Australian team arrived in Denver on March 6, played their first game on March 8 against Netherlands, losing to Holland by 6:4 (4:1, 1:1, 1:2). They next played March 10 in Colorado Springs, losing to Austria 17:0 (4:0, 8:0, 5:0). On March 12 in Denver, lost to Japan 13:2 (3:1, 7:1, 3:0). On March 13 in Colorado Springs, lost to France 13:1 (6:0, 5:0, 2:1). This game was rather chippy, featuring 30 penalties called. In their final game on March 15 in Denver, Australia won their first international game in history, defeating Denmark 6:2 (2:2, 4:0, 0:0).
• 1963-64 Olympic Qualification Team: Russell Jones (1926- ) (C), Peter Cavanagh, John Stuart; Charles Grandy (1939- ), Elgin Luke, John Nicholas, John Purcell, Kenneth Wellman (1930- ); Harry Coles, Noel Derrick (1926- ), Phil Hall, Anthony Martyr, John Miller, Edward Mustar, Kenneth Pawley (1940- ), John Thomas, Tim Spencer. Head Coach and General Manager: Russell W. Carson.
Australia did not win a medal in World Championships until 1987, 80 years after Reid established the first rinks and almost a quarter of a century after Kennedy had first argued that overseas trips were necessary for Australia to reach world standard. Australia won Pool D gold that year and the record for the highest score in a World Championship match against Team New Zealand — 58-0 at Perth on March 15th, 1987. [43] Over the following 20 years, Australia won a further 10 World Championship medals: Pool D silver in 1990 & 1998, Pool C bronze in 1992, Pool D bronze in 1999 & 2000, Division II (Group A) bronze in 2001 and 2004; and silver 2005-07. Although Australia is yet to achieve Division I World Championship standard, it is closer than ever before.