The ECAC Hockey League is one of the six conferences that compete in NCAA Division I ice hockey. Despite its name, it is not sponsored by the Eastern College Athletic Conference, a consortium of over 300 colleges in the eastern United States. The name derives from the league's former direct association with the ECAC, which ended in 2004. Image File history File links ECACHLlogo. ... The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA, often pronounced N-C-Double-A ) is a voluntary association of about 1200 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States. ... Division I (or DI) is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the United States. ... Ice hockey, known simply as hockey in areas where it is more common than field hockey, is a team sport played on ice. ... The Eastern College Athletic Conference is a College Athletic Conference comprising schools that compete in 35 mens and womens sports. ... It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles accessible from a disambiguation page. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Membership

ECAC Hockey League School Locations

The ECAC Hockey League has 12 members. As of the 2006-07 season, all of them participate with men's and women's teams, making the ECAC Hockey League the only Division I hockey conference with a full complement of teams for both sexes. Several New England-based schools left the conference in 1984 to form Hockey East. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Hockey East is a college athletic conference which operates in New England. ...

• Brown University
  • 3-time ECAC women's champions (1998, 2000, 2002)
• Clarkson University
  • 4-time ECAC men's champions (1966, 1991, 1993, 1999)
  • 9-time ECAC men's regular season champions (1966, 1977, 1981-82, 1991, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001)
• Colgate University
  • 1-time ECAC men's champions (1990)
  • 3-time ECAC men's regular season champions (1990, 2004, 2006)
• Cornell University
  • 11-time ECAC men's champions (1967-70, 1973, 1980, 1986, 1996-97, 2003, 2005)
  • 8-time ECAC men's regular season champions (1968-70, 1972-73, 2002-03, 2005)
  • 2-time NCAA men's champions (1967, 1970)
• Dartmouth College
  • 1-time ECAC men's regular season champions (2006)
  • 3-time ECAC women's champions (2001, 2003, 2007)
• Harvard University
  • 8-time ECAC men's champions (1963, 1971, 1983, 1987, 1994, 2002, 2004, 2006)
  • 4-time ECAC women's champions (1999, 2004-06)
  • 10-time ECAC men's regular season champions (1963, 1973, 1975, 1986-89, 1992-94)
  • 1-time NCAA men's champions (1989)
  • 1-time women's national champions (1999, crowned by AWCHA, pre-dated NCAA Women's Frozen Four)
• Princeton University
  • 1-time ECAC men's champions (1998)
• Quinnipiac University
  • New member in 2005
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • 3-time ECAC men's champions (1984-85, 1995)
  • 2-time ECAC men's regular season champions (1984-85)
  • 2-time NCAA men's champions (1954, 1985)
  • Women's team joined in 2006
• St. Lawrence University
  • 6-time ECAC men's champions (1962, 1988-89, 1992, 2000-01)
  • 2-time ECAC men's regular season champions (2000, 2007)
  • 2-time ECAC women's regular season champions (2005-06)
• Union College (NY)
• Yale University
  • 1-time ECAC men's regular season champions (1998)

Six of the members of the ECAC Hockey League are also members of the Ivy League, and all of the Ivy universities with Division I ice hockey programs are also members of the ECAC Hockey League. Neither the University of Pennsylvania nor Columbia University have intercollegiate ice hockey programs. The Ivy school that has the best regular season record against other Ivy opponents is crowned the Ivy League ice hockey champion. Dartmouth and Yale shared the 2007 Ivy League ice hockey championship. The Ivy League schools require their teams to play seasons that are about three weeks shorter than those of the other schools in the league. Thus, they enter the league schedule with fewer nonconference warm-up games, though Harvard competes in the annual Beanpot Tournament and Cornell hosts a holiday tournament in Florida.^[1] Brown University is a private university located in Providence, Rhode Island. ... Clarkson University, formerly Clarkson College of Technology, is a private university located in Potsdam of St. ... Colgate in fall. ... Cornell redirects here. ... Dartmouth College is a private academic institution in Hanover, New Hampshire, in the United States. ... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) , is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Founded in 1636,[1] Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning still operating in the United States. ... The Frozen Four is the trademarked name of the final two rounds of the NCAA Division I championship of ice hockey in the USA. Schools advance in a single-elimination tournament from four regional sites to a single site, where the national semifinals and final game are played. ... Princeton University is a coeducational private university located in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States of America. ... Quinnipiac University is a private four-year university in Hamden, Connecticut, located on about 500 acres (2 km²), just north of New Haven. ... Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, or RPI, is a coeducational private university in Troy, New York, near Albany, founded in 1824 by Stephen Van Rensselaer. ... St. ... The architectural centerpiece of the Union campus, the Nott Memorial, is named after the colleges president from 1804-1866, Eliphalet Nott. ... Yale redirects here. ... For the record label, see Ivy League Records. ... This article is about the private university in Philadelphia. ... Columbia University is a private research university in the United States. ... The Beanpot refers primarily to a college mens ice hockey tournament between four major college hockey schools of the Boston, Massachusetts area, held annually since the 1952-53 season. ...

Men's ECAC championship games

From 1962 to 1992, the ECAC Championship Game was held in Boston, Massachusetts, at the Boston Arena from 1962 to 1966, and at Boston Garden from 1966 to 1992. 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Nickname: City on the Hill, Beantown, Athens of America, The Hub (of the Universe)1 Location in Massachusetts, USA Counties Suffolk County  - Mayor Thomas M. Menino (D) Area    - City  89. ... Matthews Arena, located in Boston, Massachusetts, is the worlds oldest indoor hockey arena. ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... Boston Garden ISBN 0738511528 The Boston Garden was an arena built in 1928 and demolished in 1998 after the completion of its new successor arena, the FleetCenter, now called TD Banknorth Garden. ...

From 1993 to 2002, the ECAC Championship Game was held at the Olympic Center in Lake Placid, New York. 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... The Herb Brooks Arena is a 7,700-seat multi-purpose arena in Lake Placid, New York. ... Lake Placid is a village of 2,638 in the Adirondack Mountains in Essex County, New York, near the center of the Town of North Elba and named after an adjacent lake. ...

Since 2003, the ECAC Championship Game has been held at the Times Union Center in Albany, New York. 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Times Union Center is an indoor arena located in Albany, New York, with a maximum seating capacity of 17,500 for sporting events. ... Location in Albany County and the State of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York County Albany Founded 1614 Incorporated 1686  - Mayor Gerald D. Jennings Area    - City 56. ...

Winners of the game are awarded the Whitelaw Cup and receive an automatic bid to the NCAA Division I ice hockey championships.

• 1962 St. Lawrence def. Clarkson 5-2
• 1963 Harvard def. Boston College 4-3 (ot)
• 1964 Providence def. St. Lawrence 3-1
• 1965 Boston College def. Brown 6-2
• 1966 Clarkson def. Cornell 6-2
• 1967 Cornell def. Boston University 4-3
• 1968 Cornell def. Boston College 6-3
• 1969 Cornell def. Harvard 4-2
• 1970 Cornell def. Clarkson 3-2
• 1971 Harvard def. Clarkson 7-4
• 1972 Boston University def. Cornell 4-1
• 1973 Cornell def. Boston College 3-2
• 1974 Boston University def. Harvard 4-2
• 1975 Boston University def. Harvard 7-3
• 1976 Boston University def. Brown 9-2
• 1977 Boston University def. New Hampshire 8-6
• 1978 Boston College def. Providence 4-2
• 1979 New Hampshire def. Dartmouth 3-2
• 1980 Cornell def. Dartmouth 5-1
• 1981 Providence def. Cornell 8-4
• 1982 Northeastern def. Harvard 5-2
• 1983 Harvard def. Providence 4-1
• 1984 Rensselaer def. Boston University 5-2
• 1985 Rensselaer def. Harvard 3-1
• 1986 Cornell def. Clarkson 3-2 (ot)
• 1987 Harvard def. St. Lawrence 6-3
• 1988 St. Lawrence def. Clarkson 3-0
• 1989 St. Lawrence def. Vermont 4-1
• 1990 Colgate def. Rensselaer 5-4
• 1991 Clarkson def. St. Lawrence 5-4
• 1992 St. Lawrence def. Cornell 4-2
• 1993 Clarkson def. Brown 3-1
• 1994 Harvard def. Rensselaer 3-0
• 1995 Rensselaer def. Princeton 5-1
• 1996 Cornell def. Harvard 2-1
• 1997 Cornell def. Clarkson 2-1
• 1998 Princeton def. Clarkson 5-4 (2ot)
• 1999 Clarkson def. St. Lawrence 3-2
• 2000 St. Lawrence def. Rensselaer 2-0
• 2001 St. Lawrence def. Cornell 3-1
• 2002 Harvard def. Cornell 4-3 (2ot)
• 2003 Cornell def. Harvard 3-2 (ot)
• 2004 Harvard def. Clarkson 4-2
• 2005 Cornell def. Harvard 3-1
• 2006 Harvard def. Cornell 6-2

The Cleary Cup, named for famous coach Bill Cleary, is awarded to the regular season champion (the team that has the best regular season in-conference record). At present, this team is given the top seed in the conference tournament (including the first round bye given to the top four seeded teams), but is not given any special consideration in the NCAA tournament (although they may, of course, go on to win the conference tournament and get an automatic bid that way, or be awarded an at-large bid based on the strength of their overall record). For similarly-named academic institutions, see Boston (disambiguation). ... Providence College is a Catholic college in Providence, Rhode Island, the states capital city. ... For the unrelated Jesuit university in Chestnut Hill, see Boston College. ... University of New Hampshire (UNH) is a public university in the University System of New Hampshire (USNH). ... Northeastern University (NU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, in the New England region of the United States. ... UVM redirects here. ... William (Bill) Cleary (born August 19, 1934 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is a former ice hockey player from the United States, who helped shape the current climate of American College Hockey. ...

Women's ECAC championship games

• 1985 Providence def. New Hampshire
• 1986 New Hampshire def. Northeastern
• 1987 New Hampshire def. Northeastern
• 1988 Northeastern def. Providence
• 1989 Northeastern def. Providence
• 1990 New Hampshire def. Providence (in Durham, New Hampshire)
• 1991 New Hampshire def. Northeastern (Durham)
• 1992 Providence def. New Hampshire (in Providence, Rhode Island)
• 1993 Providence def. New Hampshire (in Boston)
• 1994 Providence def. Northeastern (Providence)
• 1995 Providence def. New Hampshire (Providence)
• 1996 New Hampshire def. Providence (Durham)
• 1997 Northeastern def. New Hampshire (Boston)
• 1998 Brown def. New Hampshire (Boston)
• 1999 Harvard def. New Hampshire (Providence)
• 2000 Brown def. Dartmouth (Providence)
• 2001 Dartmouth def. Harvard (in Hanover, New Hampshire)
• 2002 Brown def. Dartmouth (Hanover)
• 2003 Dartmouth def. Harvard (Providence)
• 2004 Harvard def. St. Lawrence (in Schenectady, New York)
• 2005 Harvard def. Dartmouth (Schenectady)
• 2006 Harvard def. Brown (in Canton, New York)
• 2007 Dartmouth def. St. Lawrence (Hanover)

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Conference arenas

Meehan Auditorium is a 3,000-seat multi-purpose arena in Providence, Rhode Island. ... Cheel Arena is a 3,000-seat multi-purpose arena in Potsdam, New York. ... Starr Hockey Rink is a 2,600-seat multi-purpose arena in Hamilton, New York. ... Lynah Rink is a 3,836-seat hockey arena at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, that opened in 1957. ... Thompson Arena is a 5,000-seat multi-purpose arena in Hanover, New Hampshire. ... Bright Hockey Center is a 3,200-seat multi-purpose arena in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... Hobey Baker Memorial Rink is a 2,092-seat multi-purpose arena in Princeton, New Jersey. ... TD Banknorth Sports Center is a multi-purpose arena in Hamden, Connecticut. ... Houston Field House is the name of the multi-purpose arena/venue on the campus of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - sometimes known as RPI - in Troy, NY. It is the second oldest arena in the ECAC Hockey League behind Princeton Universitys Hobey Baker Rink. ... Appleton Arena is a 3,000-seat multi-purpose arena in Canton, New York. ... The Frank L. Messa Rink at Achilles Center is a 2,225-seat multi-purpose arena in Schenectady, New York. ... Ingalls Rink, or in full, David S. Ingalls Rink, is a hockey rink designed by architect Eero Saarinen and built between 1953 and 1959 for Yale University. ...

External links

• ECAC Hockey League home page