Albert Morel was a Canadian ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 player for the Ottawa Hockey Club from 1890 to 1894. He was a member of the Ontario

Ontario

Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

 championship squads of 1890 to 1893. He played goaltender

Goaltender

In ice hockey, the goaltender is the player who defends his team's goal net by stopping shots of the puck from entering his team's net, thus preventing the opposing team from scoring...

 for the club.

Playing career

Morel is first recorded as the goaltender for Ottawa College

University of Ottawa

The University of Ottawa is a bilingual, research-intensive, non-denominational, international university in Ottawa, Ontario. It is one of the oldest universities in Canada. It was originally established as the College of Bytown in 1848 by the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate...

in 1890, as a 17-year-old. He joined the Ottawas after first playing against the Ottawas for the College. He joined the Ottawas and played for them for the duration of his education at the college until 1894.

Personal life

While studying and playing hockey, Morel also worked for the Geological Survey as part of survey teams. After 1894, Morel was employed as a private secretary and later as a book-keeper for a lumber company.