Cornell University Athletics

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 Christmas 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 with the 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 Harvard 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.

March 11, 2011
With a 2-1 victory over Quinnipiac in an ECAC Hockey quarterfinal game at Lynah Rink, Cornell registers the 1,000th victory in program history. The Big Red became the 17th program to accomplish the feat.

November 22, 2011
A 1-0 victory over Niagara gave Cornell its 500th victory at Lynah Rink. The game also marked the third consecutive shutout by goalie Andy Iles, making him the second goalie in program history to post three straight shutouts (Ben Scrivens was the other).

January 13, 2012
Andy Iles sets an ECAC Hockey record for longest shutout streak in league games of 286 minutes, 54 seconds.

February 22, 2014
Cornell clinches the outright Ivy League championship with a dominating 4-1 victory at Princeton. The Big Red ended the season with a 8-1-1 record against other teams from the Ancient Eight and three All-Ivy League First Team selections -- forward Brian Ferlin, defenseman Joakim Ryan and goaltender Andy Iles.

January 7, 2017
Mike Schafer became the 43rd coach in college hockey history to record his 400th career victory when the Big Red defeated Merrimack, 1-0.

March 17, 2017
Cornell records its 1,100th all-time victory with a 4-1 win over Union in the ECAC Hockey Championship semifinals at Herb Brooks Arena in Lake Placid, N.Y. The win propelled the Big Red back to the league's championship game for the first time since 2011.

November 11, 2017
Alec McCrea scores one of the most memorable goals in Lynah Rink history, netting a power-play strike with 2.3 seconds left in the third period to cap a 3-2 victory over rival Harvard. "If the roof wasn't new at Lynah, it might have just come off," exclaimed longtime play-by-play man Jason Weinstein. The victory was Cornell's sixth of seven straight to start the season.

November 17, 2017
Morgan Barron scored a goal in a 6-1 victory against St. Lawrence that made him the first freshman in program history to record at least one point in each of his first seven collegiate games. Noah Bauld notched a hat trick in the same game.

November 25, 2017
Tristan Mullin's first collegiate goal comes at The World's Most Famous Arena, serving as the game-winner in a 4-3 triumph over Boston University. It was the first time Cornell captured the Kelley-Harkness Cup, presented to the winner of the biennial Red Hot Hockey series at Madison Square Garden.

January 27, 2018
After three consecutive shutouts against Colgate (twice) and Harvard, freshman goaltender Matthew Galajda's shutout streak ends at 227 minutes, 11 seconds — which at the time was second-longest in program history and 13th-longest in NCAA Division I history.

January 29, 2018
Cornell ascends to the #1 ranking in both the USCHO.com and USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine national polls for the first time in nearly 15 years. The Big Red stood at 18-2-1 entering the final month of the regular season. 

February 23, 2018
With a 4-2 victory at Rensselaer in the regular season's penultimate game, Cornell clinched its first Cleary Cup since 2005. 

March 10, 2018
One night after a memorable 9-1 victory in Game 1, Cornell wraps up an ECAC Hockey quarterfinal series sweep of Quinnipiac with a 2-0 victory in Game 2 at Lynah Rink. It was the ninth shutout of the season for Matthew Galajda — a total that led the nation for the season; obliterated the old program record for clean sheets from a freshman (five); and came up just one shy of the all-time program record.

April 6, 2018
Matthew Galajda becomes the first freshman in program history to earn All-America status when he named to the East Region's first team. It was last of myriad postseason honors for Galajda, who led the nation with a 1.51 goals against average. Other honors included ECAC Hockey Ken Dryden Goalie of the Year, ECAC Hockey Rookie of the Year, Ivy League Player of the Year and Ivy League Rookie of the Year. He was one of five finalists for the Mike Richter Award and the first freshman goaltender to ever be named among 10 finalists for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award.

December 1, 2018
In what head coach Mike Schafer would go on to call one of the "grittiest" victories he's ever seen, injury-riddled Cornell got power-play goals from Cam Donaldson and Tristan Mullin and 23 saves from sophomore Austin McGrath — making just his second collegiate start — for a 2-1 victory at Harvard. The win started an eight-game unbeaten streak that saw the Big Red go from a .500 record to atop the ECAC Hockey standings and position inside the top 10 of the Pairwise Rankings.

March 2, 2019
Cornell earned a 2-2 tie at Clarkson in the teams' regular-season finale to earn a share of the Cleary Cup, marking the first time since 2003 that the Big Red has been atop the league standings in consecutive seasons.

March 30, 2019
Playing in the NCAA tournament for a third consecutive season for the first time since 1970, Cornell defeats Northeastern, 5-1, in the first round of the Northeast Regional in Providence, R.I. It was the program's first NCAA tournament victory since 2002.

December 6, 2019
A 3-1 victory at Harvard gives Cornell 10 straight victories to start the season — a first for the program since the 1970 NCAA championship team that won all 29 of its games. 

February 28, 2020
Sitting atop the USCHO.com poll for a fourth time during the season, Cornell used a 5-0 rout at home against St. Lawrence to clinch a third consecutive Cleary Cup for the first time in program history (and the first time any program has done it since 1994). It was also the third consecutive shutout for goaltender Matthew Galajda, leading to a shutout streak that eventually stretched to 202 minutes, 50 seconds.

February 29, 2020
The Big Red punctuates its 23-2-4 season with its ninth straight victory — a 5-1 decision against Clarkson on Senior Night. Freshman Ben Berard records a hat trick, and Cornell claims the #1 rankings in the USCHO.com and USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine national polls heading into the postseason. It ultimately proved to be the team's final action of the season with the COVID-19 pandemic prematurely ending the championship seasons.

March 17, 2020
Morgan Barron is named to the All-ECAC Hockey first team for a second straight season; a first for the program since Hockey Hall of Fame member Joe Nieuwendyk in 1986 and 1987. Barron would go on to be named ECAC Hockey Player of the Year and the Big Red's seventh player to ever be named one of the 10 finalist for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award. 

April 7, 2020
Mike Schafer shares the Spencer Penrose Award as Division I CCM/AHCA Coach of the Year, becoming the second Cornell head coach to claim the honor (Ned Harkness was the other in 1968). Schafer led the Big Red to a .862 winning percentage that was the highest the top tier of the nation has seen since Maine in 1993. Schafer was nominated for the award after claiming ECAC Hockey's Tim Taylor Coach of the Year honor for a fifth time in his illustrious career.

April 11, 2020
Morgan Barron and Yanni Kaldis are named to the CCM/AHCA Division I All-American Teams, giving Cornell multiple All-Americans for the first time since 2010.

October 29, 2021
Cornell wins its first game in 608 days while increasing its win streak to 10 games dating back to the 2019-20 season — after the 2020-21 season was halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic — with a 3-2 overtime victory over Alaska Fairbanks. Brenden Locke scored the game-winning goal 40 seconds into the extra period, which was Cornell's first in the new 3-on-3 format.

November 13, 2021
Cornell scores 11 goals for the first time in 43 years with an 11-3 trouncing of RPI at Lynah Rink. Max Andreev recorded Cornell's first four-goal game since future NHLer Ryan Hughes against Boston College on Jan. 29, 1991. Andreev also chipped in a pair of assists to become the first Cornell player with a six-point game since Ryan Vesce had seven points against Princeton on Nov. 8, 2003.

November 13, 2021
Cornell scores 11 goals for the first time in 43 years with an 11-3 trouncing of RPI at Lynah Rink. Max Andreev recorded Cornell's first four-goal game since future NHLer Ryan Hughes against Boston College on Jan. 29, 1991. Andreev also chipped in a pair of assists to become the first Cornell player with a six-point game since Ryan Vesce had seven points against Princeton on Nov. 8, 2003.

January 7-8, 2022
Traveling to Grand Forks, N.D., for the first time since 2008-09, Cornell swept No. 5-ranked North Dakota behind 4-3 and 3-1 victories at Ralph Engelstadt Arena. Then-freshman goaltender Ian Shane stopped 56 of 60 shots he faced in his first pair of collegiate starts. The pair of Big Red victories marked the first time North Dakota was swept on its home ice in over four years.

January 22, 2022
Ben Berard scored both of Cornell's goals in the Big Red's 2-1 victory over top-ranked Quinnipiac at Lynah Rink. The latter goal by Berard came with 16 seconds left in overtime, giving Cornell its first win over the No. 1-ranked team in the country since also defeating a top-ranked Quinnipiac team, 5-4, in Hamden, Conn., on March 12, 2016, in the second game of a best-of-three quarterfinal round of the 2016 ECAC Hockey Championship. It was Cornell's first time defeated the No. 1-ranked team in the country at Lynah Rink in program history.

February 25, 2022
Freshman goaltender Ian Shane makes 42 saves in a 1-0 shutout of No. 5-ranked Quinnipiac to sweep the season series from the Bobcats for the first time since the 2017-18 campaign. Shane's shutout was the first of two consecutive shutouts for the the first-year goaltender. He would go on to blank Princeton, 4-0, at Hobey Baker Memorial Rink the following night to cap the Big Red's regular season slate.

November 4, 2022
Mike Schafer wins his 500th collegiate game behind the bench for Cornell in a 3-1 victory over Princeton at Hobey Baker Memorial Rink. 

November 26, 2022
Freshman forward Dalton Bancroft becomes just the second Cornell player to record a hat trick at Madison Square Garden in a 6-0 shutout of No. 6-ranked UConn at the Big Red's biennial Frozen Apple game in New York City. Sophomore goaltender Ian Shane stopped all 27 UConn shots in the victory.

January 20, 2023
Sophomore goaltender Ian Shane stops 21 shots in a 4-0 shutout of No. 1-ranked Quinnipiac at Lynah Rink. It is the first time Cornell shutout the top-ranked team in the country in program history.  

February 4, 2023
Cornell finishes with six power-play goals — one shy of matching the program record — in a 10-1 victory over Union at Lynah Rink. Five of Cornell's six goals with the man advantage came in the first period, marking the most power-play goals in a single period in Cornell program history.

February 25, 2023
Cornell records its 25th Ivy League Championship behind a 5-1 victory over Yale at Ingalls Rink. Junior Kyle Penney records three points in the victory for the Big Red.

March 16, 2023
Senior defenseman Sam Malinski earns All-ECAC First Team honors for a second consecutive season, becoming the Big Red's first blueliner to earn First Team honors in consecutive seasons since future NHLer Douglas Murray in 2001-02 and 2002-03.

March 23, 2023
Behind a 25-save shutout by Ian Shane, Cornell shuts out the defending national champion Denver, 2-0, in the semifinal of the Manchester Regional of the 2023 NCAA Division I Men's Hockey Championship.

April 8, 2023
Senior defenseman Sam Malinski is named an ACHA Second Team East All-American, becoming the 34th Cornellian to be named an All-American.