Yesterday I mentioned that there was at least one situation where there was a forfeit because a team did not have enough players to continue. I checked my collection of programs and can now supply a few more details. On January 13, 1968 Colgate played RPI at the then-called RPI Field House. At 19:10 of the second period with Colgate leading RPI 5-1 a fight broke out. At the time Colgate was on a power play. The following is what I wrote in my program/scorecard: "Game forfeited to Colgate 5-1 at 19:10 of 2nd period with neither side able to field the four players needed to continue play. 7 RPI players and 8 Colgate players received major and game misconduct penalties for fighting. Since an equal number of players had to sit in the penalty box to serve the major penalties and RPI was already one man short, this left RPI with only two players and Colgate with one." In case anyone tries to do the math, note that at the time only 17 players were allowed to suit-up for a game (15 + 2 goalies). At least at that time fighting penalties did not carry with them automatic disqualifications for the next game. It is hard to believe that situations like this did not happen more often. I should add that RPI was favored to win this game and was playing rather poorly prior to the game's termination (RPI's record prior to the game was 8-4 [counting an 18-2 victory over U. Pennsylvania which was a club team that year] while Colgate was 3-6). As historically always seems to happen, and 1993/94 is certainly proving to be no exception, RPI was unable to get itself up for this game although earlier in the month they had beaten both Harvard and BU as well as Michigan Tech in the RPI Holiday Tournament in late December (and then lost to ECAC Div-II Middlebury). Colgate was dominating the game as evidenced by the 28-14 shot advantage. I also checked a recent edition of the RPI media guide/yearbook -- the game is entered as 5-1, the score at the time that the game was forfeited, not 1-0 or some other standard forfeit score. I do not know if this is the correct score for this situation, and I do not know if Colgate has used the same score. I suspect that at least RPI counted the individual stats for the game although I wonder about the penalties that caused the game to end -- they were not announced over the public address system. Ralph N. Baer RPI '68, '70, '74