Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey | |
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University | Harvard University |
Conference | ECAC |
Head coach |
Ted Donato 13th year, 176–180–46 (.495) |
Captain(s) | Alexander Kerfoot and Devin Tringale |
Arena |
Bright-Landry Hockey Center Capacity: 2,776 Surface: 204' x 87' |
Location | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
Colors | Crimson, White, and Black |
NCAA Tournament Champions | |
1989 | |
NCAA Tournament Frozen Four | |
1955, 1957, 1958, 1969, 1971, 1974, 1975, 1983, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1994 | |
NCAA Tournament Appearances | |
1955, 1957, 1958, 1969, 1971, 1974, 1975, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1993, 1994, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2015, 2016, 2017 | |
Conference Tournament Champions | |
1963, 1971, 1983, 1987, 1994, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2015, 2017 | |
Conference Regular Season Champions | |
1963, 1973, 1975, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1994, 2017 |
The Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey team is a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I college ice hockey program that represents Harvard University. The Crimson are a member of ECAC Hockey. They play at the Bright Hockey Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Crimson hockey team is one of the oldest college ice hockey teams in the United States, having played their first game on January 19, 1898, in a 0–6 loss to Brown.
The Crimson's archrival is the Cornell Big Red. The teams meet at least twice each season for installments of the historic Cornell-Harvard hockey rivalry.
The Crimson hockey team was founded in 1898 making the team one of the oldest college ice hockey teams in the United States. The team played on a local pond and played their first recorded intercollegiate game against Brown on January 19, 1898, at Franklin Field in Boston. The rivalry is the oldest continuing college hockey series in the country. The Crimson lost that game 0–6 but the Brown-Harvard rivalry continued and later become US college hockey's oldest rivalry.
The two teams played again the following winter; Brown won that game by a score of 2–1. The Crimson would get their first recorded win in program history in 1900 with a 10–1 win over MIT. That same season Harvard beat Brown in back to back games. On February 26, 1900, Harvard played Yale for the first time. 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.