1967–68 NCAA College Division men's ice hockey season
| 1967–68 NCAA College Division men's ice hockey season | |||||
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| Duration | November 1967– March 1968 | ||||
| NCAA tournament | 1968 | ||||
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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.[2]
Regular season
Season tournaments
| Tournament | Dates | Teams | Champion |
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| 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
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| 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 | 27 | 20 | 6 | 1 | |||
| 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 | |
| Championship: March 9, 1968 | ||||||||||||||
1967–68 NCAA College Division Independent ice hockey standings
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| 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 | – | – |
| Conference | Overall | |||||||||||||
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| 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
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| 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 | ||||||||||||||
