1896–97 Penn Quakers men's ice hockey season
College ice hockey team season
1896–97 Penn Quakersmen's ice hockey season
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1897–98 »
The 1896–97 Penn Quakers men's ice hockey season was the inaugural season of play for the program.
Season
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After seeing Yale and Johns Hopkins play the first intercollegiate game the year before, George Orton a graduate student from Canada, organized the first ice hockey team for Pennsylvania University.[1] The Quakers won their first game against Columbia with William Agnew recording the first hat-trick in program history.
Pennsylvania's season was hampered by a lack of local facilities, something that Orton would fix the following year when he helped build the first indoor rink in the Philadelphia area, the West Park Ice Palace.
Roster
No. | S/P/C | Player | Class | Pos | Height | Weight | DoB | Hometown | Previous team |
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William Agnew | Sophomore | F | |||||||
John Chattin | |||||||||
Clinton Decker | |||||||||
Horace Gibbons | F | ||||||||
John Gosman | |||||||||
Arthur Moore | Sophomore | G | |||||||
George Orton (C) | Graduate | F | 1873-01-10 | Strathroy, Ontario | |||||
William Phymester | D | ||||||||
Arthur Stackhouse | Sophomore | F | |||||||
Stanley Willett | D |
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Standings
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Intercollegiate | Overall | |||||||||||||
GP | W | L | T | PCT. | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | ||
Pennsylvania | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | |
Maryland | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 3 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
Yale | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .750 | 9 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 17 | 31 | |
Johns Hopkins | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .250 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 16 | 25 | |
Columbia | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .000 | 2 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 17 |
Schedule and Results
Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Record | |||||||
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Regular Season | |||||||||||
February 27 | vs. Columbia* | St. Nicholas Rink • New York, New York | W 5–0 | 1–0–0 | |||||||
*Non-conference game. |