>Posted on 5 Dec 1995 at 23:14:00 by Geoff Howell
>
>100th Year of College Hockey events
>
>The Centeniall officially takes place on Feb. 14, 1996, on the
>anniversary of the first game between American colleges. Yale defeated
>Johns Hopkins, 2-1, in Baltimore, on that date in 1896.
 
I'd always heard that the first college hockey game in the United States
was a 6-0 Brown victory over Harvard in December of 1897. There's a
plaque in Meehan Auditorium commemorating the event. Still, hockey at
Johns Hopkins sounds almost too bizarre to be true. Are you sure it
wasn't field hockey? :-)
 
Luiz F. Valente
 
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