There were also some college teams playing hockey prior to the "Anniversary
Date" although strictly speaking they weren't playing other college teams.
 From _Gopher Hockey by the Hockey Gopher_, and from the section on hockey
history by Donald Clark, "It appears that John Hopkins University of
Baltimore may been the first college in the United States to play hockey,
having tied the Baltimore Athletic Club at the dedication of the newly built
North Avenue Rink in Baltimore on December 26, 1894.  The University of
Minnesota may have been the second college in the nation to play the game.
 Although students from Yale and other eastern colleges visited Canada during
Christmas vacation of 1894, Yale did not play the game until January of 1896
when they met John Hopkins.  Columbia started hockey competition during the
winter of 1896, while Brown and Harvard continued to play ice-polo through
the season of 1896-97."
 
The University of Minnesota played some games against a Minneapolis hockey
club and a team from Winnipeg in January and February of 1895.  In about 1903
games on a formal basis stopped and it wasn't until 1914 that they resumed,
beyond intramural.  In 1921 it became a "real" varsity sport.
 
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