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.
11-535: The IHA began in February 1898 while the season was in progress. Brown , Columbia , University of Pennsylvania , 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
22-511: A moniker until the 1920s. Brown Bears men%27s ice hockey The Brown Bears men's ice hockey team is a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I college ice hockey program that represents Brown University . The Bears are a member of ECAC Hockey . They play at the Meehan Auditorium in Providence, Rhode Island . The men's ice hockey team at Brown is one of
33-782: The Year Tim Taylor Award ECAC Hockey Outstanding Defenseman ECAC Hockey Best Defensive Defenseman Ken Dryden Award First Team Second team Third Team All-Rookie Team The following is a list of Brown's men's ice hockey players who were elected into the Brown University Athletic Hall of Fame (graduating class in parentheses). Source: GP = Games played; Min = Minutes played; GA = Goals against; SO = Shutouts; SV% = Save percentage ; GAA = Goals against average Minimum 10 games Statistics current through
44-412: The bench the team performed much better with a hand at the tiller and quickly built up to be a respected program. In 1939 the team again suspended operations, though this time it was due to the onset of World War II . Brown's team remained out of commission for the entire duration of the war and didn't return until several years after its conclusion, finally hitting the ice again in 1947. In only 4 years
55-522: The country's oldest programs, having played their first game in 1898. That season, the team helped to form the first informal conference, the Intercollegiate Hockey Association , and wound up winning the league championship. While there was no formal declaration at the time, Brown's title is sometimes referred to as the first ice hockey national championship. Brown nearly repeated the feat three years later but ultimately fell to Yale in
66-543: The first two playoff games ever contested for college ice hockey. The program swiftly declined after that near miss and the Bears became one of the worst teams in the nation. By 1906 the team had lost 16 straight contests, failing to score a goal in 9 games during that stretch. The program suspended operations after 1906 and remained shuttered for 20 years. When they returned to the ice they debuted with their first official head coach. Though James Gardner only lasted one season behind
77-573: 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 , then welcomed Dartmouth after Brown suspended its program in 1906. At
88-649: The rest of college hockey. Since 1981 Brown has produced only six winning seasons and more than half of their campaigns have ended with single-digit win totals. The Bears had a brief resurgence in the mid-1990s, managing to make the tournament in 1993 but bowed out after only 1 game. As of the completion of 2023–24 season Brown has sent five members of its team to the Olympics. Three former players, Donald Whiston (Silver, 1952 ), Robert Gaudreau ( 1968 ) and Mike Mastrullo ( 1984 and 1992 ) represented their respective nations as players, former player Tim Bothwell
99-473: The same meeting where Dartmouth was admitted, the committee also banned freshmen from participating on varsity teams. Cornell joined the league a few years later. In 1911, restrictions imposed by Harvard faculty forced the college to resign from the league. The following year, both Columbia and Yale left, dropping membership back to just three teams. The league continued until the end of the year before disbanding. † Dartmouth's athletic teams did not possess
110-406: The team climbed all the way to 17–5 record, receiving the top eastern seed for the 1951 NCAA tournament . Though they ultimately fell in the title game, Brown had become one of the better teams in college hockey and, excluding a brief period in the early '60s, would remain so for the next 30 years. When the 1980s rolled around the Bears results started turning sour and Brown found itself looking up at
121-525: Was an assistant coach on the gold medal-winning 2006 Canadian women's team and former assistant coach Jack Ferreira was an assistant GM for the US men's team in 1998 . Spencer Penrose Award Derek Hines Unsung Hero Award NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player First Team Second Team ECAC Hockey Player of the Year ECAC Hockey Rookie of
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