sentences:  Due to the absence of 2 of the American players, each team played with only 5 men per side in the first game instead of the 7 normally played but this would play an important part to establishing the codified version of ice hockey in Australia rather than the Australian variant played before.The Victorian team won the first game 9 – 2 at the Melbourne Glaciarium.In the second game played 2 days later on 3 September 1908, each team had 7 men per side available and played with a rubber puck.