1920–21 Penn Quakers men's ice hockey season

1920–21 Penn Quakers
men's ice hockey season
Home icePhiladelphia Ice Palace
Record
Overall3–5–1
Home3–4–0
Road0–1–1
Coaches and captains
Head coachGeorge Orton
Captain(s)Andy Pringle
Penn Quakers men's ice hockey seasons
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The 1920–21 Penn Quakers men's ice hockey season was the 9th season of play for the program.

Season

With most programs having now returned from absences caused by World War I, Penn was hoping to form a new intercollegiate league with old rivals from the IHA.[1] Harvard, the leading program at the time, elected to only keep its arrangement with Princeton and Yale.[2] As a result, plans for the league were changed to allow Harvard to participate; instead of a conference, the league would operate in a more informal manner that would facilitate scheduling between teams as well as to certify rules that all members could accept. With those modifications, Penn was able to join the Intercollegiate Ice Hockey Association of America with five of its contemporaries, but membership was not the stabilizing force that Penn hoped it would be.[3]

Penn had originally hoped to schedule a practice game before the winter break but no arrangement could be finalized. After Christmas the team was supposed to open the season on the 7th and 8 January, but both games were cancelled due to scheduling conflicts.[4] In the end they were able to rope the St. Nicholas Hockey Club into a game on the 8th before playing their first intercollegiate game the following week.

In February Harvard finally accepted the inevitable and agreed to play 6-on-6 hockey beginning the following year. As a result the expectation was that the Intercollegiate league that had just been formed would become a fully-formed conference in the near future.[5] The news came amidst a good streak for the Quakers with the team going 3–0–1 and looking like they would have a chance to earn a split with Princeton, but the Tigers, who were using the Philadelphia Ice Palace as their home rink, shut down the Penn offense and won the game 2–0.[6]

Roster

No. S/P/C Player Class Pos Height Weight DoB Hometown Previous team
Cook D
DeKorn
Diall RW
Fortier RW
Charles Jefferys G
Richard Kearns Jr. F
Murray F/D
O'Reilly D
Andrew C. Pringle (C) Sophomore C
C. Smith D

Standings

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Intercollegiate Overall
GP W L T Pct. GF GA GP W L T GF GA
Amherst 7 0 7 0
Army 3 0 2 1 .167 6 11 3 0 2 1 6 11
Bates 4 2 2 0 .500 7 8 8 4 4 0 22 20
Boston College 7 6 1 0 .857 27 11 8 6 2 0 28 18
Bowdoin 4 0 3 1 .125 1 10 7 1 5 1 10 23
Buffalo 6 0 6 0
Carnegie Tech 5 0 4 1 .100 4 18 5 0 4 1 4 18
Clarkson 1 0 1 0 .000 1 6 3 2 1 0 12 14
Colgate 4 1 3 0 .250 8 14 5 2 3 0 9 14
Columbia 5 1 4 0 .200 21 24 5 1 4 0 21 24
Cornell 5 3 2 0 .600 22 10 5 3 2 0 22 10
Dartmouth 9 5 3 1 .611 24 21 11 6 4 1 30 27
Fordham
Hamilton 10 10 0 0
Harvard 6 6 0 0 1.000 42 3 10 8 2 0 55 8
Massachusetts Agricultural 7 3 4 0 .429 18 17 7 3 4 0 18 17
Michigan College of Mines 2 1 1 0 .500 9 5 10 6 4 0 29 21
MIT 6 3 3 0 .500 14 22 7 3 4 0 17 26
New York State
Notre Dame 3 2 1 0 .667 7 9 3 2 1 0 7 9
Pennsylvania 8 3 4 1 .438 17 37 9 3 5 1 18 44
Princeton 7 4 3 0 .571 18 16 8 4 4 0 20 23
Rensselaer 4 1 3 0 .250 7 13 4 1 3 0 7 13
Williams 5 4 1 0 .800 17 10 6 5 1 0 21 10
Yale 8 3 4 1 .438 21 33 10 3 6 1 25 47
YMCA College 6 5 0 1 .917 17 9 7 5 1 1 20 16

Schedule and results

Date Opponent Site Result Record
Regular Season
January 8 vs. St. Nicholas Hockey Club* Philadelphia Ice PalacePhiladelphia, Pennsylvania L 1–7  0–1–0
January 14 vs. Princeton* Philadelphia Ice PalacePhiladelphia, Pennsylvania L 1–6  0–2–0
January 22 at Fordham* 181st Street Ice PalaceManhattan, New York L 3–15  0–3–0
January 28 at Carnegie Tech* Duquesne GardensPittsburgh, Pennsylvania T 3–3 2OT 0–3–1
February 2 vs. Columbia* Philadelphia Ice PalacePhiladelphia, Pennsylvania W 2–0  1–3–1
February 12 vs. Cornell* Philadelphia Ice PalacePhiladelphia, Pennsylvania W 4–3 OT 2–3–1
February 22 vs. Carnegie Tech* Philadelphia Ice PalacePhiladelphia, Pennsylvania W 2–1 OT 3–3–1
February 25 vs. Princeton* Philadelphia Ice PalacePhiladelphia, Pennsylvania L 0–2  3–4–1
March 4 vs. Dartmouth* Philadelphia Ice PalacePhiladelphia, Pennsylvania L 2–7  3–5–1
*Non-conference game.

References

  1. ^ "Hockey Candidates are Called out Today". The Daily Pennsylvanian. November 29, 1920. Retrieved August 20, 2020.
  2. ^ "Harvard Not in Hockey League". The Daily Pennsylvanian. December 2, 1920. Retrieved August 20, 2020.
  3. ^ "Form Association for Ice Hockey". The Daily Pennsylvanian. December 7, 1920. Retrieved August 20, 2020.
  4. ^ "Hockey Season will Open Soon". The Daily Pennsylvanian. January 4, 1921. Retrieved August 20, 2020.
  5. ^ "A Hockey League". The Daily Pennsylvanian. February 18, 1921. Retrieved August 20, 2020.
  6. ^ "Princeton Defeats Ice Hockey Team". The Daily Pennsylvanian. February 26, 1921. Retrieved August 20, 2020.
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