Intercollegiate Hockey Association

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Intercollegiate Hockey Association
Founded1898
Ceased1913
Sports fielded
No. of teamsBetween 3 and 6
Region Northeastern United States

The Intercollegiate Hockey Association was a loose collection of ice hockey programs from schools in the Northeastern United States. Each college involved would play every other team at least once during the season, and the team with the best record would be declared the champion. As this was the only championship for college hockey at the time, the victor served as the de facto National Champion. The IHA was called both the Intercollegiate Hockey Association and the Intercollegiate Hockey League during its existence. It is referred to here as the IHA to distinguish from the later Intercollegiate Hockey League. Although all of the IHA member colleges later became members of the Ivy League, there was never a time when they were all in the IHA at once.

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History

The IHA began in February 1898 while the season was in progress. [1] Brown, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, [2] and Yale agreed to form the league after some of their intercollegiate games had already been played. However, all of the matches played that season were counted for the inaugural championship (even those played prior to the founding of the IHA). Brown was the initial victor, finishing with an undefeated record against the other three teams.

After the first full season of play, the league started holding a championship series at the end of the season for the two best teams. Yale won the first three series. The series was eventually reduced to a single game before being abandoned altogether after 1904. In the 1904–05 season, the league champion returned to being the team with the best record against IHA opponents.

The IHA expanded to include other future Ivy League schools like Harvard and Princeton, [3] then welcomed Dartmouth after Brown suspended its program in 1906. At the same meeting where Dartmouth was admitted, the committee also banned freshmen from participating on varsity teams. [4] Cornell joined the league a few years later.

In 1911, restrictions imposed by Harvard faculty forced the college to resign from the league. [5] The following year, both Columbia and Yale left, dropping membership back to just three teams. [6] The league continued until the end of the year before disbanding.

Members

Intercollegiate Hockey Association
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Locations of member teams
InstitutionNicknameLocationFoundedTenureFateCurrent conference
Brown University Bears Providence, Rhode Island 17641898–1906Program Suspended ECAC Hockey
Columbia University Lions New York, New York 17541898–1912IndependentProgram Suspended
Cornell University Big Red Ithaca, New York 18651909–1913Independent ECAC Hockey
Dartmouth College none † Hanover, New Hampshire 17691906–1913Independent ECAC Hockey
Harvard University Crimson Boston, Massachusetts 16361901–1911Independent ECAC Hockey
University of Pennsylvania Quakers Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 17401898–1899, 1900–1901Program Suspended
Princeton University Tigers Princeton, New Jersey 17461900–1913 Intercollegiate Hockey League ECAC Hockey
Yale University Bulldogs New Haven, Connecticut 17011898–1912 Intercollegiate Hockey League ECAC Hockey

† Dartmouth's athletic teams did not possess a moniker until the 1920s.

Membership timeline

Cornell Big Red men's ice hockeyDartmouth Big Green men's ice hockeyHarvard Crimson men's ice hockeyPrinceton Tigers men's ice hockeyPenn Quakers men's ice hockeyYale Bulldogs men's ice hockeyColumbia LionsBrown Bears men's ice hockeyIntercollegiate Hockey Association

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">1909–10 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season</span>

The 1909–10 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season was the 11th season of play for the program.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">1910–11 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season</span>

The 1910–11 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season was the 12th season of play for the program.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">1911–12 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season</span>

The 1911–12 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season was the 13th season of play for the program.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">1912–13 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season</span>

The 1912–13 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season was the 14th season of play for the program.

The Intercollegiate Hockey League began as an agreement between Harvard, Princeton and Yale to play one another in best-of-three series.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">1915–16 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season</span>

The 1915–16 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season was the 17th season of play for the program.

The 1911–12 Columbia Lions men's ice hockey season was the 16th season of play for the program.

The 1912–13 Columbia Lions men's ice hockey season was the 17th season of play for the program.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">1911–12 Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey season</span>

The 1911–12 Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey season was the 15th season of play for the program.

References

  1. ↑ "Columbia Daily Spectator, Volume XLI, Number 2". Columbia University . February 23, 1898. Retrieved February 2, 2020.
  2. ↑ "Canadian and U.S. Expansion – College Hockey History".
  3. ↑ "Columbia Daily Spectator, XLVIII, Number 52". Columbia University . December 1, 1904. Retrieved February 2, 2020.
  4. ↑ "Columbia Daily Spectator, Volume L, Number 55". Columbia University . December 3, 1906. Retrieved February 2, 2020.
  5. ↑ "Volume 36, Number 158". The Princeton Daily. January 12, 1912. Retrieved February 15, 2020.
  6. ↑ "Volume 37, Number 149". The Princeton Daily. December 16, 1912. Retrieved February 15, 2020.
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