In response to Brian Morris' post concerning the RPI Invitational Hockey Tournament in which Michigan appeared, the year was 1961 and Red Berenson led the Wolverines to the tourney championship. At that time, it was a four-team round robin (each team plays each one of the remaining teams on three successive nights; if there is not a clear-cut champion after the third night's games, the title is awarded to the team scoring the most goals in the tournament) and IMO, this is the only way to crown a true champion in ANY tournament, including the NC$$s. I was still living in Schenectady at the time and I had been accustomed to being at the Field House for the tournament games ever since Brown won the first Invitational title in 1952. To this day, and maybe the intervening years have enhanced my memory somewhat, Red Berenson remains the single most dominant college hockey forward I have ever seen. Now I know that's a tall statement, and granted the two RPI tournament games were the only opportunities I had to see him play in college, but those two performances were absolutely magnificent. In the intervening years, rarely have I seen a college player consistently sift through an entire team (that was typically using a defensive scheme designed to contain him) and finish the rush by depositing the puck behind the opposing goaler. Red was a truly outstanding player, perhaps one of the best ever to play the college game. BTW, after a quick perusal of the current Rensselaer media guide, North Dakota and Michigan have never appeared in an RPI Invitational field together. Michigan has been there twice -- in the 1961 with McGill, RPI and Yale, and in 1966 with Colgate, New Brunswick and RPI. In both tournaments, Michigan and RPI met on the final night (12/30 in both cases), with the Wolverines prevailing 8-3 in 1961 (I forget how many Berenson scored that evening, but it was at least a hat trick) and the two teams skating to a 6-6 draw in 1966. Does anybody else have some Berenson memories that confirm my recollection? Bill Corrigan LET'S GO BRUNO! HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.