LTC Prague

Lawn Tennis Club Prague
Greatest successes
7-time Spengler Cup winner 7 times Czechoslovakian champion 4 times champion of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Club information
history	LTC Prague (1904–1949) ZSJ Zdar LTC (Sokol pražský) (1949–1950) ZSJ OD Prague (1950–1951) Tatra Smíchov (1951–1964) TJ Dynamo Prague (1964)
Location	Letná , Prague
Club colors	 
league	1st League
Venue	Zimní stadión Štvanice
capacity	10,000 seats

Club premises of LTC Prague

The Lawn Tennis Club Prague was a Czech tennis and ice hockey club from Prague , which was founded in 1904 and merged into today's HC Slavia Prague in 1964 .

Club history

Lawn Tennis Club Prague (originally Lawn Tennis Cercle) was founded in 1904 by students of the Faculty of Law at Charles University in Prague. It was founded when members of the tennis department founded in 1903 in the SK Slavia Prague sports club left it. Therefore, the new club was initially called LTC SK Slavia. The main sport at that time was tennis .

The tennis players' interest in the bandy soon became so great that a team was put together. At the end of 1918, the members of DEHG Prague joined LTC Prague.

For many years the club gained little importance, this only changed when dissatisfied players from Sparta Prague switched to LTC in 1927 . The ambitious players toured Europe and met Canadian teams, which significantly improved their game. During the summer months, the players stayed together and played tennis and soccer. In the 1930s and 1940s, LTC Prague was almost unrivaled in Czechoslovakia, and the club was also one of the top in Europe, having won the Spengler Cup seven times. After 1948 the club fell out of favor and many players had to leave the republic or were imprisoned in communist camps. After that, LTC Prague, merged with Tatra Smíchov in 1951 , only played a minor role and in 1957 had to move into the 2nd division. In 1964 LTC was merged into Slavia Prague, the club from which it originally emerged.

successes

• 12 × Czechoslovakian champions : 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937 , 1938 , 1946 , 1947 , 1948 , 1949
• 5 × Master Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia : 1939 , 1940 , 1942 , 1943 , 1944
• 7 × Spengler Cup winners: 1929, 1930, 1932, 1937, 1946, 1947, 1948
• 3 × Tatra Cup winners: 1930, 1931, 1949

Spengler Cup

Karel Hromádka scored a goal against the Academic EHC Zurich at the Spengler Cup in 1932

Between 1929 and 1948 LTC Prague took part regularly in the Spengler Cup and was able to win this competition a total of seven times.

• 1929 - winner
• 1930 - winner
• 1932 - Winner (with the University of Oxford )
• 1933 - 4th place
• 1936 - finalist
• 1937 - winner
• 1938 - 2nd place
• 1945 - 3rd place
• 1946 - winner
• 1947 - winner
• 1948 - winner

Well-known former players

Viktor Lonsmín Josef Trousílek Bohumil Modrý Jan Peka František Pácalt Mike Buckna

Josef Maleček Miroslav Pokorný Alois "Lolek" Cetkovský Jaroslav Citta Jiří Tožička Ladislav Troják

Zbyněk Peters Vladislav Müller Miroslav Charouzd Václav Roziňák Tomáš Švihovec

Karel Stibor Vilibald Šťovík Vladimír Zábrodský Oldřich Zábrodský junior Oldřich Zábrodský senior

Web links

• Unofficial page about LTC Prague ( Memento from March 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
• Entry at hockeyarenas.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Prague German Ice Hockey Society decided in its recently held general assembly to merge with the Lawn Tennis Club Prague. In:  Sportblatt am Mittag / Sport-Tagblatt. Sports edition of the Neue Wiener Tagblatt , January 2, 1919, p. 2 (online at ANNO ).