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

YearChampionRunner-upThird placeFourth place
1977 Boston UniversityColgateSt. LawrenceBowdoin
1976 ClarksonVermontCornellPennsylvania
1975 CornellSt. LawrenceBrownBoston College
1972 St. LouisNotre DameClarksonSt. Lawrence
1971 Notre DameSt. LawrenceBoston CollegeBrown
1970 HarvardClarksonYaleBowdoin
1969 CornellSt. LawrenceBoston CollegeRensselaer
1968 ClarksonYaleBrown
Dartmouth
None
1967 CornellBrownSt. LawrenceClarkson
YearChampionRunner-upThird placeFourth placeFifth placeSixth place
1966 Boston UniversityClarksonMinnesotaSt. LawrenceYalePrinceton
1965 CornellSt. LawrenceColgate
Northeastern
NoneYale
Boston College
None
1964 NortheasternBrownClarksonProvidenceCornellSt. Lawrence
YearChampionRunner-upThird placeFourth place
1963 ClarksonBoston CollegeBrownArmy
1962 Boston CollegeClarksonSt. LawrenceCornell
1961 ClarksonSt. LawrenceBoston College
Boston University
None

Note: * denotes overtime

Team records

Team# of times participatedTitles
Clarkson104
Cornell74
Boston University32
Boston College71
Northeastern21
Notre Dame21
Harvard11
St. Louis11
St. Lawrence110
Brown60
Yale40
Bowdoin20
Colgate20
Army10
Dartmouth10
Minnesota10
Princeton10
Providence10
Rensselaer10
Vermont10

References

  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.
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