 The AHA was the first professional hockey league to field teams in the Southern United States.The founding president was Alvin Warren, who also owned the St. Paul Saints.Other founding owners included William Grant, league secretary and owner of the Duluth Hornets (and Warren's successor as president in 1930), Paul Loudon of the Minneapolis Millers, and William Holmes, owner of the league's only Canadian franchise, the Winnipeg Maroons, and also owner of the Winnipeg Auditorium.