1967–68 NCAA College Division men's ice hockey season
The 1967–68 NCAA College Division men's ice hockey season began in November 1967 and concluded in March of the following year. This was the 4th season of second-tier college ice hockey.
Four of the five members of the Worcester Collegiate Hockey League joined ECAC 2 with only Worcester Polytechnic Institute remaining outside. Because the five schools already held a tournament between themselves at season's end, none of the teams qualified for the ECAC 2 Tournament. This arrangement held until 1972 by which time two teams had left the conference and continuing with three members was not viable.[1]
The NAIA began holding a national tournament in 1968. With ECAC 2 already holding a tournament for the vast majority of eastern schools, the NAIA received most of their bids from western schools with a few exceptions (Boston State and Salem State). The NAIA tournament would be the only national championship for non-Division I programs until the NCAA started holding the Division II Championship in 1978, after which the NAIA division declined until it was dropped as a sponsored sport in 1984.
Regular season
Season tournaments
| Tournament | Dates | Teams | Champion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Codfish Bowl | December 21–22 | 4 | Boston State |
| Yankee Conference Tournament | December 27–28 | 4 | New Hampshire |
| Boston Arena Christmas Tournament | December 28–30 | 4 | Boston University |
| MIT Tournament | February 1–3 | 4 | Connecticut |
Standings
| 1967–68 ECAC 2 standings | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conference | Overall | |||||||||||||
| GP | W | L | T | Pct. | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | ||
| Merrimack †* | 11 | 10 | 1 | 0 | .909 | 56 | 21 | 26 | 18 | 8 | 0 | 132 | 95 | |
| Colby | 17 | 15 | 2 | 0 | .882 | 97 | 37 | |||||||
| Hamilton | 16 | 13 | 2 | 1 | .844 | 93 | 45 | 21 | 15 | 5 | 1 | |||
| Vermont | 18 | 12 | 6 | 0 | .667 | 91 | 74 | 23 | 12 | 11 | 0 | 96 | 107 | |
| American International | 15 | 10 | 5 | 0 | .667 | 68 | 49 | 19 | 12 | 7 | 0 | |||
| Assumption | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | .667 | 25 | 23 | 18 | 8 | 6 | 2 | |||
| Middlebury | 13 | 8 | 4 | 1 | .654 | 59 | 29 | 22 | 11 | 10 | 1 | |||
| Bowdoin | 15 | 9 | 5 | 1 | .633 | 79 | 48 | 21 | 11 | 9 | 1 | |||
| RIT | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | .600 | 28 | 23 | 18 | 10 | 8 | 0 | |||
| Boston State | 16 | 9 | 6 | 1 | .594 | 71 | 53 | 26 | 16 | 9 | 1 | |||
| Holy Cross | 17 | 10 | 7 | 0 | .588 | 78 | 76 | 24 | 16 | 8 | 0 | 128 | 96 | |
| Oswego State | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | .563 | 62 | 32 | 21 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 143 | 83 | |
| Connecticut | 18 | 10 | 8 | 0 | .556 | 95 | 64 | 23 | 13 | 10 | 0 | 120 | 84 | |
| Salem State | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | .545 | 56 | 42 | 18 | 11 | 7 | 0 | |||
| Williams | 14 | 5 | 8 | 1 | .393 | 49 | 50 | 16 | 5 | 10 | 1 | |||
| Massachusetts | 15 | 5 | 10 | 0 | .333 | 70 | 87 | 20 | 5 | 15 | 0 | 76 | 114 | |
| MIT | 12 | 4 | 8 | 0 | .333 | 35 | 81 | 15 | 6 | 9 | 0 | |||
| Ithaca | 12 | 2 | 10 | 0 | .167 | 29 | 53 | |||||||
| Worcester State | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | .167 | 13 | 26 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | |||
| Babson | 7 | 1 | 6 | 0 | .143 | 32 | 101 | 14 | 4 | 10 | 0 | |||
| Amherst | 17 | 2 | 15 | 0 | .118 | 52 | 118 | 15 | 2 | 13 | 0 | |||
| Norwich | 19 | 2 | 17 | 0 | .105 | 52 | 111 | 25 | 3 | 22 | 0 | 64 | 146 | |
| Nichols | 10 | 1 | 9 | 0 | .100 | 24 | 55 | 20 | 4 | 15 | 1 | 59 | 105 | |
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Championship: March 9, 1968 | ||||||||||||||
| 1967–68 NCAA College Division Independent ice hockey standings | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall record | ||||||
| GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | |
| Illinois-Chicago | 17 | 12 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Iona | 16 | 16 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Lake Forest | 14 | 11 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Lowell Tech | 15 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 85 | 84 |
| Oberlin | ||||||
| St. Cloud State | 19 | 1 | 18 | 0 | 51 | 188 |
| St. Olaf | 15 | 5 | 9 | 1 | – | – |
| 1967–68 Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference ice hockey standings | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conference | Overall | |||||||||||||
| GP | W | L | T | Pts | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | ||
| Gustavus Adolphus † | 14 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 24 | 21 | 14 | 7 | 0 | |||||
| Augsburg | 14 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 22 | 19 | 13 | 5 | 1 | |||||
| Saint Mary's | 14 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 22 | 20 | 12 | 8 | 0 | |||||
| Macalester | 14 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 14 | |||||||||
| St. Thomas | 12 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 18 | 7 | 11 | 0 | |||||
| Hamline | 14 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 8 | |||||||||
| Saint John's | 13 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 7 | 20 | 7 | 11 | 2 | |||||
| Concordia (MN) | 12 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 1 | 15 | 1 | |||||
| † indicates conference regular season champion | ||||||||||||||
| 1967–68 Worcester Collegiate Hockey League standings | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conference | Overall | |||||||||||||
| GP | W | L | T | Pct. | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | ||
| Holy Cross †* | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 47 | 12 | 24 | 16 | 8 | 0 | 128 | 96 | |
| Nichols | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | .313 | 24 | 30 | 20 | 4 | 15 | 1 | 59 | 105 | |
| Assumption | 18 | 8 | 6 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Worcester State | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | ||||||||||
| WPI | ||||||||||||||
| Championship: March 6, 1968 † indicates conference regular season champion * indicates conference tournament champion | ||||||||||||||
ECAC 2 Tournament
| Semifinals March 6–7 |
ECAC 2 Championship March 9 | |||||||
| 1 | Merrimack | 6 | ||||||
| 4 | American International | 1 | ||||||
| 1 | Merrimack | 5 | ||||||
| Hamilton | 4 | |||||||
| Hamilton | 6 | |||||||
| Colby | 3 | |||||||
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
WCHL Tournament
| Semifinals March 4 |
Championship March 6 | |||||||
| 1 | Holy Cross | 8 | ||||||
| 4 | Worcester State | 5 | ||||||
| 1 | Holy Cross | 10 | ||||||
| 2 | Assumption | 0 | ||||||
| 2 | Assumption | 3 | ||||||
| 3 | Nichols | 0 | Third Place Game | |||||
| 3 | Nichols | 5 | ||||||
| 4 | Worcester State | 6* | ||||||
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
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