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ECAC Holiday Hockey Festival

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ECAC Holiday Hockey Festival
SportCollege ice hockey
Founded1961
Ceased1977
No. of teams4–6
Venue(s)Madison Square Garden III Madison Square Garden IV
Last
champion(s)
Boston University
Most titlesClarkson, Cornell (4)

The ECAC Holiday Hockey Festival was an annual NCAA men's Division I ice hockey tournament held annually at Madison Square Garden in New York City around the Christmas and New Year holiday. The tournament began in the year the ECAC was founded and continued for fifteen years before dissolving after the 1976–77 season.[1]

The tournament was the first mid-season event sponsored by ECAC Hockey and initially only invited four members of the conference to participate. As the competition grew and became more prestigious it was expanded to 6 teams for the 1964 iteration and, two years later, invited the first non-conference member to participate (Minnesota). The championship returned to a 4-team tournament in 1967. For the first 12 years the tournament was held before Christmas but began to wane in interest and was not held in 1973. After a year hiatus it returned, this time being played after the New Year. The change to January didn't seem to help matters and the Festival was permanently discontinued three years later.[2]

Yearly results

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Year Champion Runner-up Third place Fourth place
1977 Boston University Colgate St. Lawrence Bowdoin
1976 Clarkson Vermont Cornell Pennsylvania
1975 Cornell St. Lawrence Brown Boston College
1972 St. Louis Notre Dame Clarkson St. Lawrence
1971 Notre Dame St. Lawrence Boston College Brown
1970 Harvard Clarkson Yale Bowdoin
1969 Cornell St. Lawrence Boston College Rensselaer
1968 Clarkson Yale Brown
Dartmouth
None
1967 Cornell Brown St. Lawrence Clarkson
Year Champion Runner-up Third place Fourth place Fifth place Sixth place
1966 Boston University Clarkson Minnesota St. Lawrence Yale Princeton
1965 Cornell St. Lawrence Colgate
Northeastern
None Yale
Boston College
None
1964 Northeastern Brown Clarkson Providence Cornell St. Lawrence
Year Champion Runner-up Third place Fourth place
1963 Clarkson Boston College Brown Army
1962 Boston College Clarkson St. Lawrence Cornell
1961 Clarkson St. Lawrence Boston College
Boston University
None

Note: * denotes overtime

Team records

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Team # of times participated Titles
Clarkson 10 4
Cornell 7 4
Boston University 3 2
Boston College 7 1
Northeastern 2 1
Notre Dame 2 1
Harvard 1 1
St. Louis 1 1
St. Lawrence 11 0
Brown 6 0
Yale 4 0
Bowdoin 2 0
Colgate 2 0
Army 1 0
Dartmouth 1 0
Minnesota 1 0
Princeton 1 0
Providence 1 0
Rensselaer 1 0
Vermont 1 0

References

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  1. ^ "ECAC Holiday Hockey Festival". College Hockey Historical Archive. Retrieved 2017-01-22.
  2. ^ "A Home Away From Home: Part 2". Where Angels Fear to Tread. 2014-11-25. Retrieved 2017-01-22.