1968–69 NCAA College Division men's ice hockey season
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The 1968–69 NCAA College Division men's ice hockey season began in November 1968 and concluded in March of the following year. This was the 5th season of second-tier college ice hockey.
Regular season
Season tournaments
| Tournament | Dates | Teams | Champion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Codfish Bowl | 4 | Boston State | |
| Yankee Conference Tournament | December 27–28 | 4 | New Hampshire |
| Nichols School Invitational | January 3–4 | 4 |
Standings
| 1968–69 ECAC 2 standings | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conference | Overall | |||||||||||||
| GP | W | L | T | Pct. | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | ||
| Bowdoin † | 16 | 12 | 3 | 1 | .781 | 74 | 45 | 21 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 90 | 68 | |
| Merrimack | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | .778 | 37 | 29 | 21 | 8 | 13 | 0 | 76 | 96 | |
| American International * | 18 | 13 | 5 | 0 | .722 | 109 | 83 | 23 | 15 | 8 | 0 | 132 | 117 | |
| Colby | 18 | 12 | 6 | 0 | .667 | 79 | 49 | 21 | 13 | 8 | 0 | 90 | 64 | |
| Salem State | 16 | 10 | 5 | 1 | .656 | 116 | 67 | 18 | 12 | 5 | 1 | |||
| Norwich | 16 | 10 | 6 | 0 | .625 | 81 | 65 | 22 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 101 | 91 | |
| Holy Cross | 17 | 10 | 6 | 1 | .618 | 90 | 99 | 23 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 131 | 113 | |
| Connecticut | 15 | 9 | 6 | 0 | .600 | 77 | 61 | 22 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 110 | 100 | |
| Worcester State | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | .600 | 22 | 20 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | |||
| Vermont | 19 | 11 | 8 | 0 | .579 | 79 | 61 | 25 | 13 | 12 | 0 | 91 | 88 | |
| Boston State | 20 | 10 | 10 | 0 | .500 | 140 | 79 | 23 | 12 | 11 | 0 | |||
| Hamilton | 16 | 8 | 8 | 0 | .500 | 105 | 92 | 18 | 8 | 10 | 0 | 116 | 107 | |
| Oswego State | 12 | 6 | 6 | 0 | .500 | 71 | 79 | 21 | 10 | 11 | 0 | 105 | 125 | |
| RIT | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | .500 | 35 | 41 | 27 | 17 | 9 | 1 | |||
| Middlebury | 13 | 6 | 7 | 0 | .462 | 63 | 51 | 22 | 9 | 13 | 0 | 109 | 106 | |
| Massachusetts | 18 | 8 | 10 | 0 | .444 | 90 | 66 | 21 | 9 | 12 | 0 | 92 | 84 | |
| Williams | 15 | 5 | 9 | 1 | .367 | 67 | 85 | 19 | 5 | 13 | 1 | 73 | 124 | |
| Lowell Tech | 12 | 4 | 8 | 0 | .333 | 74 | 89 | 13 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 78 | 96 | |
| Ithaca | 9 | 3 | 6 | 0 | .333 | 37 | 55 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 39 | 60 | |
| New Haven | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | .333 | 36 | 58 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 36 | 58 | |
| Babson | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | .300 | 38 | 60 | 15 | 7 | 8 | 0 | |||
| MIT | 7 | 2 | 5 | 0 | .286 | 39 | 45 | 13 | 5 | 7 | 1 | |||
| Nichols | 6 | 0 | 5 | 1 | .083 | 15 | 51 | 20 | 8 | 11 | 1 | 74 | 102 | |
| Amherst | 16 | 1 | 15 | 0 | .063 | 51 | 135 | 16 | 1 | 15 | 0 | |||
| Assumption | 10 | 0 | 9 | 1 | .050 | 17 | 81 | 17 | 4 | 12 | 1 | |||
| Championship: March 8, 1969 † indicates conference regular season champion * indicates conference tournament champion | ||||||||||||||
| 1968–69 NCAA College Division Independent ice hockey standings | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall record | ||||||
| GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | |
| Alaska Methodist | ||||||
| Illinois-Chicago | 16 | 12 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Iona | 17 | 8 | 9 | 0 | ||
| Lake Forest | 19 | 9 | 10 | 0 | ||
| Oberlin | ||||||
| St. Cloud State | 20 | 2 | 18 | 0 | 45 | 183 |
| St. Olaf | 21 | 6 | 15 | 0 | – | – |
| 1968–69 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 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 26 | 22 | 17 | 4 | 1 | |||||
| Augsburg | 14 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 23 | 19 | 14 | 4 | 1 | |||||
| Saint Mary's | 14 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 22 | 19 | 15 | 3 | 1 | |||||
| Hamline | 14 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 15 | |||||||||
| Saint John's | 14 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 12 | 16 | 6 | 10 | 0 | |||||
| Concordia (MN) | 14 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 8 | 17 | 5 | 12 | 0 | |||||
| St. Thomas | 14 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 6 | 18 | 8 | 9 | 1 | |||||
| Macalester | 14 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| † indicates conference regular season champion | ||||||||||||||
| 1968–69 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 | 54 | 17 | 23 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 131 | 113 | |
| Nichols | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | .389 | 36 | 43 | 20 | 8 | 11 | 1 | 74 | 102 | |
| Assumption | 17 | 4 | 12 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Worcester State | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | ||||||||||
| WPI | ||||||||||||||
| Championship: March 13, 1969 † indicates conference regular season champion * indicates conference tournament champion | ||||||||||||||
- WCHL scores
- 12/4: Holy Cross - Nichols 7:2
- 12/9: Holy Cross - Worcester State 6:0
- 12/9: Nichols - WPI 5:2
- 12/16: Worcester State - Nichols 7:4
- 12/18: Holy Cross - Assumption 6:2
- 2/5: Holy Cross - WPI 7:2
- 2/5: Nichols - Assumption 0:0 OT
- 2/8: Nichols - WPI 10:8
- 2/12: Holy Cross - Worcester State 6:5 OT
- 2/17: Holy Cross - Assumption 7:0
- 2/19: WPI - Nichols 5:4
- 2/24: Worcester State - Nichols 3:2
- 3/3: Nichols - Assumption 7:2
- 3/4: Holy Cross - Nichols 9:2
- 3/6: Holy Cross - WPI 6:4
- Worcester State - Assumption 4:1
- Assumption - WPI 4:3
- Assumption - WPI 5:1
- WPI - Assumption 6:3
ECAC 2 Tournament
| Semifinals March 5–6 |
ECAC 2 Championship March 8 | |||||||
| 1 | Merrimack | 3 | ||||||
| 4 | Norwich | 5 | ||||||
| 4 | Norwich | 6 | ||||||
| 2 | American International | 7 | ||||||
| 2 | American International | 10 | ||||||
| 3 | Colby | 3 | ||||||
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
WCHL Tournament
| Semifinals March 11 |
Championship March 13 | |||||||
| 1 | Holy Cross | 5 | ||||||
| 4 | Nichols | 2 | ||||||
| 1 | Holy Cross | 7 | ||||||
| 2 | Worcester State | 2 | ||||||
| 2 | Worcester State | 7 | ||||||
| 3 | Assumption | 6 | Third Place Game | |||||
| 3 | Assumption | 4* | ||||||
| 4 | Nichols | 3 | ||||||
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
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