Ralph wrote:
> Ken wrote:
>
> >   In my day (late 70's) there were only
> >   the WCHA and ECAC. The ECAC consisted of about a dozen schools then. I
> >   don't remember RPI, St. Lawrence, Maine, Princeton, or Union; but Clarkson
> >   and Cornel were powerhouses, and the league included Vermont, UNH,
> >   Providence, BU, BC, Yale, Northeastern, Dartmouth, and Harvard.
>
> RPI, St. Lawrence, and Princeton were definitely in the ECAC in the
> late 1970's.  Union definitely was not.  I don't remember when Maine
> joined the ECAC, but I think that you are correct.   Brown and Colgate
> were also in the ECAC at that time.  It is hard to remember Army's
> status in any given year, as they seem to change it every four or five
> years.
 
I'm pretty sure Clarkson played Army every year from '73 to '78, whether
or not they were ECAC.  Maine was definitely after my day, as was Union.
All the other teams mentioned above were ECAC, or at least Clarkson played
them every year.  Also, back then Penn had an ECAC hockey team.  I remember
a road trip during Christmas break with a friend from NJ to see the highly
ranked Clarkson team loose to last place and next-to-last place Princeton
and Penn.
 
>
> >Also, there were few tournaments during
> >   the year, and east never played west, until the NCAAs (to the detriment
> >   of the east, usually).
>
> My recollection is that there actually were more tournaments then than
> now.   As to east vs west, it seems to me that meetings were easier to
> schedule in the 60's and 70's because league schedules were not so
> confining as they are now.
 
There were Thanksgiving and Christmas tournaments every year I was at
Clarkson.  I think the Thanksgiving one was in the North Country.  I
remember Christmas ones at Syracuse and at Madison Square Gardens.  One
year there was a tournament in Montreal near the beginning of the season.
I can't say as I remember any other tournaments, except the championship
series, of course (the "ECACs" at Boston Garden and the "NCAAs" somewhere
out west).
 
 
>
> >   Now, if only we can get some games in the Meadowlands
> >   or the Madison Square Garden.
>
 
> I wish that someone would schedule one at the Capital
> Center (oops, USAir Arena).
 
I'd go along with that.
 
BTW, I just moved to the DC area (Gaithersburg) last summer.  I seem to
remember someone on hockey-l last spring saying there were college hockey
games on some PBS TV station in DC, maybe it was post-season play.  At the
time, of course, it didn't mean much to me.  But now, I'd like to know
what station to be on the lookout for.
 
Bill Mitchell, Clarkson '77 '78
 
South Carolina '80, Purdue '83, Illinois '88 (talk about going cold turkey
from hockey)