What has become the Ivy Hockey League was formed in 1934 - and except
for the war years of 1944-46 - has operated without interruption over 62
seasons.
 
        Originally, the League was composed of Dartmouth, Harvard,
Princeton and Yale and was known as the Quadrangular League.  Army joined
the group in 1941-42, making it the Pentagonal League.  Army dropped out in
1946-47 and was replaced by Brown in 1948-49, making the membership
entirely from the Ivy League, although it was not officially known as the
Ivy Hockey League until the 1955-56 season.  (Brown had re-established ice
hockey as a varsity sport in 1947-48 after a seven-year hiatus occasioned
by World War II).
 
        Cornell became a member in 1958-59 and Pennsylvania joined in
1967-68, but dropped out after the 1977-78 season.
 
        Columbia has never been a member of the Ivy Hockey League but did
sponsor a varsity team from 1898 thru the first decade of the 1900s.  The
Lions played their games out of the Clermont Rink in Brooklyn and later at
St. Nicholas Arena in Manhattan and their opponents were typically the
other Ivies playing during that era such as Brown, Harvard, Pennsylvania,
Princeton and Yale, and local teams such as the New York Athletic Club .
 
 
Bill Corrigan
 
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