The Cleveland Athletic Club ice hockey team was an amateur ice hockey team from Cleveland, Ohio operating during the first three decades of the 20th century out of the Cleveland Athletic Club. When the team joined the United States Amateur Hockey Association for the 1920–21 season it was known as the Cleveland Indians or Cleveland Hockey Club, and in 1924–25 as the Cleveland Blues.

The United States Amateur Hockey Association (USAHA) was an ice hockey governing body in the United States from 1920 to 1925, which operated at an amateur level. The league was filled with predominantly Canadian-born players, but struggled to achieve consistent attendance figures in the days before large arenas with artificial ice. The association disbanded in 1925, with some teams eventually joining the American Hockey Association, and one team joining the National Hockey League.