Before Jean Beliveau packed the Colisée de Québec as the best senior hockey player in the world with the Quebec Aces, he was a star junior with the Citadelles of the Quebec Junior Hockey League.
My program is from the 1949-50 season, with Le Gros Bill wearing number nine. He would have been about 18 at this time.
Here the Citadelles are playing the Verdun Maple Leafs, the junior team the Rocket once played for, and as you can see, the coach is none other than Hall of Famer Sylvio Mantha, who starred for the Canadiens from 1923 to 1937, and was captain of the team for much of that time.