For ten of their fans the price of admission to hockey games was their willingness to play in the team band; and it was that musical band of volunteers, frozen instruments and all, that gave the Sussex Senior Hockey Teams the nick-name of "The Old Grey Mares." That was indeed " . . . many long years' ago" when seventeen residents of Sussex combined their talents and enthusiasm to win five consecutive district, provincial, inter-provincial and/or Maritime senior hockey titles. The year 1925 saw the end of "The Mares" and the end of this type of hockey endeavour, — local talent, totally amateur, totally self-supporting, totally natural-ice based. It's too bad, really, because with their demise, the next line of their song came true, real amateur hockey "ain't what it used to be. ." But, despite all kinds of refinements, some good, some not quite so good, none has come along to even remotely duplicate the string of hockey successes of those greying old mares! Enrolled in the New Brunswick Sports Hall of Fame, June 2, 1979.