>Matt Glaccum asked: >>Help! I am trying to find out the inaugural year for each Div I team, meaning >>that year in which a team was first eligible to advance to the Div I >>Tournament >I went mainly off what appears in the 1989-90 College Hockey Record >Manual, which includes listings of teams as Independents. For many >teams, this was easy, but for others it isn't since they may have been >in leagues with DivI teams early on, dropped out for a while and then >resurfaced - or else there were periods of non-DivI play, like with >Notre Dame. > >ECAC >Cornell 1948- >Years listed are the year in which the tournament was held, earliest >being the first tournament in 1948. Cornell's 1947-48 team played 4 games and went 0-4. "Home ice" was Beebe Lake. Cornell then dropped hockey as a varsity sport until the construction of Lynah Rink, reinstituting the sport for the 1957-58 season. According to the records I have access to, the first year that Cornell played enough games to be considered eligible for the ECAC tournament was 1962-63. I don't know what the criteria for being "eligible to advance to the Div I tournament" were back then, but the correct inaugural year for Cornell should be somewhere between 1957-58 and 1962-63, not 1948.