1921–22 YMCA College Maroons
men's ice hockey season
ConferenceIndependent
Home icePratt Field Rink
Record
Overall2–4–0
Home1–1–0
Road1–3–0
Coaches and captains
Head coachBenny Leonard
George Bergini
Captain(s)Benny Leonard
Walt Courtney
YMCA College Maroons men's ice hockey seasons
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The 1921–22 YMCA College Maroons men's ice hockey season was the 18th season of play for the program.

Season

The '22 season was a complete disaster for the Maroons. The year began with the team losing their coach, Paul Otto, who sited too many other responsibilities as the reason for his departure.[1] While Benny Leonard, the team captain and manager, agreed to act as coach for the year, he was caught short and only managed to schedule 6 games.[2] To make matters worse, J. Howard Starr, the team best defenseman, could only play on occasion due to his studies. While the team was able to get Starr in the lineup for the first game, they were missing Delano who was recovering from surgery.

A warm winter meant that most of the early-season training for the team happened off the ice and all of those degrading effects caused the Maroons to open the year with a bad defeat at the hands of Williams. The Ephs were by far the better team all game long and YMCA had no chance for victory in the match.[3] After a subsequent loss to Amherst, Benny Leonard was admitted to hospital with acute Appendicitis and needed surgery to fix the issue. Because he was lost for the year, the team was now down to just one returning player (Courtney) with the rest of the club made up of new faces. While Courtney took over as captain, George Bergini, the coach of the Springfield Hockey Club, offered to help the team in its time of need and finished out the year as coach. Somewhat surprisingly, the team was able to win its next game but Rensselaer was and had been one of the worst programs for over a decade and the Maroons' victory had as much to do with the quality of their opponent as anything else.[4]

The following week the team travelled to face Army and found themselves on the wrong end of a 0–7 beating. The shorthanded team got a small bit of good news heading into the rematch with Amherst; the Lord Jeffs were dealing with similar roster problems. YMCA had a chance to avenge their earlier defeat but, even handicapped, the Sabrinas were too much for the Maroons and handed them yet another shutout loss.[5] YMCA ended the year with a second defeat of RPI, the only goal coming from Courtney.[6] The poor but respectable record belied the terrible state the program was in. The situation was so bad that the program was shuttered for the following year.

Benny Leonard served as team manager.

Roster

No. S/P/C Player Class Pos Height Weight DoB Hometown Previous team
Massachusetts Walter A. Courtney (C) Junior D Maynard, Massachusetts
Connecticut William A. Hamm Sophomore RW Bridgeport, Connecticut
Maine Leon L. Houston Senior G Lisbon Falls, Maine
Ontario John G. Lang Jr. Sophomore LW St. Thomas, Ontario
Massachusetts Albert S. Leonard (C) Senior C 1899-02-10 Melrose, Massachusetts
Massachusetts W. T. Lindsay Sophomore RW Quincy, Massachusetts
Ontario D. Hector Reid Sophomore C Hamilton, Ontario
Connecticut J. Howard Starr Senior D 1899-07-16 New Haven, Connecticut
Indiana F. T. Wall Sophomore D/LW Birmingham, Indiana
Massachusetts Edwin H. Ward Senior C/LW Norwood, Massachusetts

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Standings

1921–22 Eastern Collegiate ice hockey standings
Intercollegiate Overall
GP W L T Pct. GF GA GP W L T GF GA
Amherst–––––––10460––
Army7421.643231195312615
Bates7340.4291716138504425
Boston College33001.00016384312316
Bowdoin3021.1672492611218
Clarkson1010.0002122020920
Colby4121.37551373311625
Colgate3030.0003144040724
Columbia7331.500212473312124
Cornell5410.800171054101710
Dartmouth6411.7501056411105
Hamilton–––––––9720––
Harvard77001.000335118125117
Massachusetts Agricultural9540.5561623116502030
MIT6330.500141810460––
Pennsylvania7250.286162883502329
Princeton7250.2861221103612128
Rensselaer5050.0002285050228
Union0000–0062401212
Williams8341.438271983412719
Yale14770.50046391991005554
YMCA College6240.3333216240321

Schedule and results

DateOpponentSiteResultRecord
Regular Season
January 14 at Williams* Cole Field House Rink • Williamstown, Massachusetts L 1–8  0–1–0
January 18 Amherst* Pratt Field Rink • Springfield, Massachusetts L 0–5  0–2–0
January 21 at Rensselaer* RPI Rink • Troy, New York W 1–0  1–2–0
January 28 at Army* Stuart Rink • West Point, New York L 0–7  1–3–0
February 4 at Amherst* Pratt Field Rink • Amherst, Massachusetts L 0–2  1–4–0
February 11 Rensselaer* Pratt Field Rink • Springfield, Massachusetts W 1–0  2–4–0
*Non-conference game.

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Scoring statistics

Name Position Games Goals
Walt CourtneyCP-2
W. LindsayRW-1
Bill HammRW-0
Leon HoustonG-0
John LangLW-0
Benny LeonardC-0
Hector ReidC-0
Howie StarrP-0
F. WallP/LW-0
Ed WardC/LW-0
Total3

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Springfield College Yearbook, 1922". Springfield College. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
  2. ↑ "Hockey Season Begins Tomorrow". The Springfield Student. January 13, 1922. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
  3. ↑ "Puckmen Bow to Williams". The Springfield Student. January 20, 1922. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
  4. ↑ "Hockey Team Defeats R.P.I." The Springfield Student. January 27, 1922. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
  5. ↑ "R.P.I. Tomorrow". The Springfield Student. February 11, 1922. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
  6. ↑ "Hockey Season Closes". The Springfield Student. February 18, 1922. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
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