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Harvard Crimson men’s ice hockey
Harvard Crimson men’s ice hockey
University Harvard University
The Harvard Crimson men’s ice hockey team is a National
Conference ECACHL
Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I college
Head coach Ted Donato ice hockey program that represents Harvard University.
The Crimson are a member of ECAC Hockey. They play
7th year, 91–89–20
at the Bright Hockey Center in Cambridge, Massachu-
setts.[1] The Crimson hockey team is one of the oldest
Arena Bright Hockey Center college ice hockey teams in the United States, having
Capacity: 2,776 played their first game on January 19, 1898, in a 0-6 loss
Location Cambridge, Massachusetts to Brown.[2] The team won the NCAA Division I Champi-
onship on April 1, 1989, defeating the Minnesota Golden
Colors Crimson and White
Gophers 4-3 in overtime for their first and only champi-
onship.
NCAA Tournament Champions
1989
History
NCAA Tournament Frozen Four Early history
1955, 1957, 1958, 1969, 1971, 1974, 1975, 1983, 1986, 1987, The Crimson hockey team was founded in 1898 making
1989, 1994 the team one of the oldest college ice hockey teams in
NCAA Tournament Appearances
the United States. The team played on a local pond and
played their first recorded intercollegiate game against
1955, 1957, 1958, 1969, 1971, 1974, 1975, 1982, 1983, 1985, Brown on January 19, 1898, at Franklin Field in Boston.[3]
1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1993, 1994, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
The rivalry is the oldest continuing college hockey series
2006
in the country.[4] The Crimson lost that game 0–6 but the
Conference Tournament Champions Brown-Harvard rivalry continued and later become US
1963, 1971, 1983, 1987, 1994, 2002, 2004, 2006 college hockey’s oldest rivalry.[4] The two teams played
again the following winter; Brown won that game by a
Conference Regular Season Champions score of 2–1. The Crimson would get their first recorded
1963, 1973, 1975, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1994 win in program history in 1900 with a 10-1 win over
MIT.[5] That same season Harvard beat Brown in back to
Current uniform back games. On February 26, 1900, Harvard played Yale
for the first time.[3] The game was held at the St. Nicholas
Rink in New York and the 4-5 loss was the Crimson’s only
loss of the 1899-1900 season.[5][3]
In 1903 Alfred Winsor became the team’s first official
head coach.[3] The team previously used captains in a
player-coach role, including Winsor who served as the
Crimson’s captain from 1901-1902.[3] Under Winsor the
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team recorded a 22-game winning streak that spanned crowd in excess of 14,000.[10] The resulting tie caused the
five and a half seasons and lasted from January 10, 1903, two rivals to share the 1929-30 intercollegiate title. [3]
to Jan 19, 1907.[3][6] Joseph Stubbs became the fourth head coach in pro-
gram history starting with the 1927-28 season.[8] He
stepped down after the 1937-38 season with a record of
95-43-6 record in 11 seasons. Stubbs led the team to four
seasons of double-digit wins, including two back-to-back
11-win seasons in 1930-31 and 1931-32, as well as a 12-win
season in 1935-36,[8] and leading the Crimson to a 15-1
record in 1936-37.[3]
The Quadrangular League was created for the 1933-34
with Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Dartmouth, the league
is considered the predecessor to the Ivy League.[3] In
1936, the Council of Ivy Group Presidents agreed on the
formal formation of the League, however the agreement
did not go into effect until the 1955-56 season.[3]
1945-1960
Harvard hockey game at Harvard Stadium in 1910. The program was suspended from two seasons during
World War II, the program was reactivated for the short-
After beginning the program on a pond and playing ened 1945-46 season.[8] In 1950 Ralph "Cooney" Weiland
on various outdoor rinks constructed on campus over the became head coach, Weiland was a former NHL scoring
seasons, the university constructed two ice rinks inside champion who won Stanley Cups as both a player and a
Harvard Stadium for the 1904 season and move some old coach with the Boston Bruins. With the hire, Weiland be-
bleachers to the side of the rink. The university also be- came the first non-alumnus to become head coach of the
gan charging admission for select important games for program.[3]
the first time.[3] The Crimson later moved home games to Weiland guided Harvard to win the inaugural Bean-
the Boston Arena, the first indoor ice rink in Boston and pot hockey tournament on December 27, 1952, when the
one of the oldest in the United States.[7] A few years af- team defeated Boston University 7-4.[3] A few seasons lat-
ter moving into the Boston Arena, on March 14, 1913, the er Weiland’s Crimson team competed in the 1955 NCAA
Harvard University Athletic Committee voted to make Ice Hockey Tournament. It was the first Frozen Four ap-
ice hockey a major sport in the university’s athletic de- pearance by the university.[8] The 1954-55 season was
partment.[3] Following the 1917 season Alfred Winsor highlighted by William J. "Billy" Cleary leading the na-
stepped down as the head coach after compiling a 124-29 tion in scoring with 89 points in 21 games, his point total
record in 15 seasons as Crimson head coach. The follow- still stands as the Harvard single-season record.[3] Cleary
ing season was suspended because of World War I with and classmate Chuck Flynn become Harvard’s first All-
the team resuming play in 1919.[3] Americans.[3] The team returned to the tournament in
1957 and 1958. All three tournament appearances under
1919-1944 Weiland saw the Crimson exit in the semi-final round. [8]
In 1956 Harvard moved into the 2,000-seat Donald C.
From 1919-1921 the team went back to playing at outdoor
Watson Rink bringing hockey back on campus from the
rinks after the Boston Arena caught fire in the fall of
Boston Arena.[11] The rink was located north of Harvard
1918. The Crimson returned to the arena after it was re-
Stadium.
built in the fall of 1921.[3] Following three seasons again
Harvard became a founding member of the ECAC
with no official coach, William H. Claflin became the sec-
Hockey League in 1961.[12] That same season, on January
ond coach in program history in 1921[8] On March 7,
4, 1962, Harvard defeated Northeastern 6-1 for the pro-
1923, William H. Claflin and captain George Owen ’23 sub-
gram’s 500th win. In its second season in the ECAC, Har-
stituted entire forward lines instead of individuals, in the
vard won both the league regular season championship
first recorded use of a line change. The idea proved suc-
and, with a 4-3 overtime win over Boston University, won
cessful as Harvard defeated Yale 2-1 in overtime.[3][9]
the league championship.[13]
On March 12, 1930, Harvard and Yale played the final
At the conclusion of the 1970-71 season Weiland left
game of a three-game series to end the 1930 season. The
the program after 21 years. He compiled a record of
two teams split the first two games of the series.[3] The
316-172-17, six Ivy League championships, two ECAC
game was called off at midnight due to blue laws despite
championships, and five NCAA appearances.[3] Weiland
the teams being tied in the third overtime and a record
was named coach of the year by the American Hockey
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Coaches Association in 1955 and 1971. In 1971 he was in- ward Ed Krayer score in overtime to give the Crimson
ducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame and received the a 4-3 overtime victory.[3][16] Following the game, Lane
Lester Patrick Award for contribution to hockey in the MacDonald became the third player in program history
United States in 1972.[14] to earn the Hobey Baker Award.[3]
1971-1990 Recent history
Bill Cleary, former Crimson All-American, took over
coaching duties for the 1971-72 season after serving as an
assistant coach under Weiland.[3] On March 7, 1975 - Har-
vard defeated Cornell 6-4 to win the 23rd game of the sea-
son,[3] the first 20-win season in program history.[8] Un-
fortunately, the Crimson would lose in the finals the next
day to Boston University and finish fourth in the NCAA
Tournament with defeats to Minnesota and the same BU
squad. The team was captained by All-American Randy
Roth ’75, who the previous year was named the Crimson’s
first ever ECAC Player of the Year.
By the mid-1970s the Donald C. Watson Rink was be-
coming outdated and the university made plans to con-
struct a new hockey facility. A decision was eventually
made to extensively upgrade the facility and in 1978 the Bright Hockey Center during a game versus Cornell.
walls were removed and the roof was extended before
the new arena was installed at a cost exceeding Bill Cleary ended his tenure as head coach at the con-
$5-million.[11] During the renovation the Harvard’s men’s clusion of the 1989-90 season to become the director of
and new women’s teams played out of various local rinks athletics.[3] In his 19 seasons as head coach for the pro-
in 1978-79. Following the renovation the facility was gram he won 324 games and took the Crimson to the
named after former Harvard hockey player Alec Bright NCAA Tournament nine times, the Frozen Four on seven
’19.[11] The Bright Hockey Center increased seating by occasions, and the first National Championship for Har-
more than 800 people The ice surface was extended by vard.[8] The ECAC regular season championship, the
five feet to 204 feet by 87 feet under the direction of Cleary Cup, is named in honor of the former Harvard
coach Cleary.[11] player, coach, and Olympian for his efforts to form the
Cleary lead the Crimson to their third conference conference.[18] Longtime assistant Ronn Tomassoni was
tournament championship by beating Providence 4-1 in named head coach for the following season. In his first
the ECAC Championship, sending the Crimson to the 1983 season as head coach in February 1, 1992, Tomassoni
NCAA Tournament. Harvard first defeated Michigan guided Harvard to the program’s 1,000 win when it de-
State in the two-game quarter-final series by a combined feats Union, 7-3.[3]
score 9-8.[15] [15] The Crimson advanced to the Frozen In 1993 the team returned to the NCAA Tournament
Four in Grand Forks, North Dakota and defeated Min- for the first time since their championship in 1989.[8]
nesota 5-3 to send Harvard to the program’s first NCAA The Crimson lost in double overtime to Northern Michi-
Championship appearance.[15] The Crimson was defeated gan 2-3.[19] Harvard returned to the NCAA the following
in the NCAA final 2-6 by Wisconsin.[15] Despite the loss season in 1994 and advanced to the Frozen Four with a
in the final, Mark Fusco became the school’s first Hobey 7-1 win over New Hampshire. In the NCAA semifinal the
Baker Award winner.[3] Three seasons later, his brother, Crimson fell to Lake Superior State 3-2 in overtime.[20]
Scott Fusco became the second player and first ever pair finishing the year a record of 24-5-4.[3] The appearance
of brothers to win the Award.[3] in the 1993 Frozen Four was the last of the program to
Despite a 2-3 overtime loss to Vermont in the ECAC date.[8]
semifinals,[16] the 1988-89 team received an at-large bid Mark Mazzoleni became the tenth coach in program
to the 1989 NCAA Tournament, the team’s fifth straight history on July 16, 1999.[8][3] Under Mazzoleni the Crim-
NCAA Tournament appearance.[8] Harvard swept Lake son reached the NCAA Tournament three straight sea-
Superior State in the two game quarter-final round by sons in 2001-02, 2002-03, and 2003-04.[8] The streak was
a combined score of 9-4.[16] The team advanced to the extended to five straight seasons, tying a program high,
Frozen Four in St. Paul, Minnesota and defeated Michigan by Ted Donato in 2004-05 and 2005-06.[21] The 1-6 loss to
State 6-3 before facing the hometown Minnesota Golden Maine in the NCAA Tournament marked the last appear-
Gophers in the championship.[17] Harvard won their first ance in the tournament[8] [22]
NCAA Championship on April 1, 1989 when senior for-
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Championships • Dave Hynes
• Ryan Lannon
• Ted Thorndike
• Noah Welch
• Louis Leblanc • C.J. Young
NCAA
• 1-time NCAA men’s champions: 1989
See also
ECAC Hockey • Cornell–Harvard hockey rivalry
• 8-time ECAC men’s champions: 1963, 1971, 1983, • Harvard Crimson women’s ice hockey
1987, 1994, 2002, 2004, 2006
• 10-time ECAC men’s regular-season champions: 1963,
1973, 1975, 1986–89, 1992–94
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