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Intercollegiate Hockey League

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Intercollegiate Hockey League
Founded1912
Ceased1917
Sports fielded
No. of teams3
RegionNortheastern United States

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

History

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As the Intercollegiate Hockey Association was collapsing, the three top college teams wanted to continue playing games against one another. After Harvard left the IHA in 1911 they scheduled both Princeton and Yale multiple times the following season. After Yale left the next year all three teams agreed to play two games against one another with a third used in case of a tie. After the collapse of the IHA and the suspension of Columbia's ice hockey in 1915, both Cornell and Dartmouth made overtures to join the league but after Cornell was forced to cancel any such plans due to financial constraints, nothing came to fruition for either program.

The league held together for five years before World War I caused both Princeton and Harvard to suspend their programs.[1][2]

Members

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Locations of member teams
Institution Nickname Location Founded Tenure Fate Current conference
Harvard University Crimson Boston, Massachusetts 1636 1912–1917 Program suspended ECAC Hockey
Princeton University Tigers Princeton, New Jersey 1746 1912–1917 Program suspended ECAC Hockey
Yale University Bulldogs New Haven, Connecticut 1701 1912–1917 Independent ECAC Hockey

Membership timeline

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Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockeyPrinceton Tigers men's ice hockeyHarvard Crimson men's ice hockey

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Harvard Men's Hockey Year-By-Year Results" (PDF). Harvard Crimson. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 4, 2020. Retrieved February 27, 2020.
  2. ^ "Men's Hockey All-Time Results". Princeton Tigers. Retrieved February 27, 2020.