Cornell Men's Hockey
NCAA Champions - 1967 & 1970
ECAC Hockey Champions - 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1973, 1980, 1986,
1996, 1997, 2003, 2005, 2010
CORNELL HOCKEY TIMELINE
February 28, 1901
Cornell plays its first collegiate hockey game, defeating Swarthmore, 4-1, at the Philadelphia Ice Palace.
February 9, 1907
After playing each of the first seven games in school history at either road or neutral sites, the Big Red plays its first home game, a 7-0 victory over Rochester on an outdoor rink set up on Beebe Lake on the Cornell campus.
1920-21
Nicholas Bawlf is named the program's head coach, beginning a 27-year tenure directing the program. Over that span, the Big Red posts a 45-76-4 record.
1948
Due to a lack of interest in the program and lack of ice on Beebe Lake, the men's hockey program at Cornell University is discontinued.
April 6, 1957
James Lynah Rink is officially dedicated with an exhibition game between the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League and the Rochester Americans of the American Hockey League.
December 14, 1957
With the construction of Lynah Rink, the Cornell hockey team is revived and has a new, permanent home. Cornell plays its first hockey game in nine years, officially opening the modern era of Cornell hockey with a 16-3 thrashing of the Lehigh Hockey Club.
February 3, 1962
Goaltender Laing Kennedy backstops the Big Red to a 2-1 victory over Harvard at Lynah Rink, Cornell's first victory over the Crimson, snapping a 14-game losing streak to open the all-time series.
1963
Ned Harkness is named head coach, opening a seven-year span of the most successful period of Cornell hockey.
1966
Cornell wins its first Ivy League title and finishes as runner-up to Clarkson in the ECAC postseason tournament. Due to the Ivy League's disagreement with the NCAA on postseason participation, the Big Red declines its berth in the NCAA tournament.
December 30, 1966
Cornell and Boston University, widely regarded as the two top programs in the East, play to a 3-3 double overtime tie in the final game of the Boston Arena Christmas Tournament. The game, which went well into the evening hours, was declared a tie following consultation with Cornell coach Ned Harkness and Boston University coach Jack Kelly.
March 11, 1967
In a rematch of the legendary Christmast tournament game, Cornell defeats Boston University, 4-3, at Boston Garden to win its first ECAC tournament title.
March 18, 1967
With the Ivy League's feud witht eh NCAA regarding postseason participation over, Cornell and Boston University meet in the national championship game at the War Memorial Arena in Syracuse, N.Y. Cornell scores a 4-1 victory over the Terriers for the Big Red's first national championship.
March 21, 1970
Cornell caps a 29-0-0 season - the only unbeaten, untied national championship season in NCAA history - with a 6-4 victory over Clarkson at the Olympic Arena in Lake Placid, N.Y.
May 22, 1970
Ned Harkness resigns as head coach to become the head coach of the Detroit Red Wings, becoming the first coach to move from the NCAA to the NHL. Dick Bertrand, whose playing career had come to an end just two months prior as a tri-captain for the Big Red's undefeated, untied national championship team, is named head coach.
February 2, 1972
Clarkson defeats the Big Red, 4-2, at Lynah Rink, snapping Cornell's 63-game home winning streak, a record that still stands as the longest home winning streak in NCAA history.
March 18, 1972
Cornell returns to the NCAA championship game, but this time falls to Boston University, 4-0. Cornell has since qualified for the NCAA tournament 12 times, but has yet to return to the national title game.
1977-78
Lance Nethery completes his junior season with a total of 23 goals and 60 assists, the only season with 80 points or more in Cornell history.
March 15, 1980
Cornell defeats Dartmouth, 5-1, at Boston Garden, to win its sixth ECAC tournament title, earning the program's first league tournament crown and NCAA berth since 1973.
March 15, 1986
Behind tri-captains Duanne Moeser, Peter Natyshak and Mike Schafer, Cornell wins its seventh ECAC championship at Boston Garden, defeating Clarkson, 3-2, in overtime.
February 27-28, 1987
Joe Nieuwendyk scores a hat-trick in back-to-back games against Rensselaer and Vermont, helping the Big Red to a 6-1 and 5-2 win, respectively. The two contests would be the final collegiate games for Nieuwendyk, who would sign with the Calgary Flames of the NHL following the season.
March 22, 1996
Cornell defeats rival Harvard, 2-1, in the championship game of the ECAC tournament at the Herb Brooks Arena in Lake Placid, N.Y., as Mike Schafer becomes the first Cornell coach to win the league title in his first season.
March 22, 2003
Cornell again beats Harard in the ECAC title game, this time by a 3-2 overtime score, for the third championship of Mike Schafer's tenure.
March 30, 2003
Cornell defeats Boston College, 2-1, in double overtime in the NCAA East Regional in Providence, R.I., to advance to the Frozen Four for the first time since 1980.
April 2, 2003
Sophomore goaltender David LeNeveu becomes Cornell's first Hobey Hat Trick finalist, finishing in the top three in the voting for the Hobey Baker Award, presented annually to the top player in college hockey.
March 30, 2005
Goaltender David McKee becomes Cornell's second Hobey Hat Trick finalist.
March 26, 2006
Cornell plays in the longest 1-0 game in NCAA tournament history, taking eventual national champion Wisconsin to three overtimes at the Resch Center in Green Bay, Wis., before falling at the 111:13 mark. Goaltender David McKee makes 59 saves in the game, two shy of the school record and more than 20 more than his previous career best.
November 24, 2007
Cornell renews its rivalry with Boston University at Madison Square Garden in front of a sold-out crowd of 18,200, the largest crowd to ever see a college hockey game at the arena.
February 26, 2010
With both former players on hand to watch their jerseys raised to the Lynah Rink rafters, Cornell officially retires the numbers 1 and 25 in honor of Ken Dryden and Joe Nieuwendyk, respectively.
March 13, 2010
Ben Scrivens becomes the first Cornell goaltender to post a pair of shutouts against Harvard in the same season when he stops 17 shots in a 3-0 win in game two of the ECAC Hockey quarterfinals. He previously picked up a 3-0 win against the Crimson on Feb. 19, joining Ken Dryden as the only two Cornell goaltenders to blank Harvard in Cambridge, Mass.
April 8, 2010
Colin Greening becomes the first Cornell men's hockey player to receive the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award, honoring character, classroom excellence, community service and competition on the ice. He is presented with the award at the Frozen Four at Ford Field in Detroit, Mich.