The Triangular Hockey League began as an agreement between
Harvard
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,
Princeton
Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine ...
and
Yale
Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wor ...
to play one another in
best-of-three series during the season.
History
The Triangular League followed a similar pattern to the
Intercollegiate Hockey League
The Intercollegiate Hockey League began as an agreement between Harvard, Princeton and Yale to play one another in best-of-three series.
History
As the Intercollegiate Hockey Association was collapsing, the three top college teams wanted to cont ...
, which had existed before
World War I
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but rather than expand to include other teams as they had previously, the Trianular league remained a 3-team conference. The future
Ivy League
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squads were typically considered the cream of
college ice hockey
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during the 1920s and, as a result, the League champion would often claim to be the Eastern hockey champion. The League lasted seven years and ended when Harvard and Princeton discontinued their season series in 1927.
Members
Membership timeline
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Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...
(1919–1926)
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Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine ...
(1919–1926)
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Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wor ...
(1919–1926)
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See also
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Intercollegiate Hockey Association
The Intercollegiate Hockey Association was a loose collection of ice hockey programs from schools in the Northeastern United States. The colleges involved would schedule one another at least once during the season with and the team with the best ...
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Intercollegiate Hockey League
The Intercollegiate Hockey League began as an agreement between Harvard, Princeton and Yale to play one another in best-of-three series.
History
As the Intercollegiate Hockey Association was collapsing, the three top college teams wanted to cont ...
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Pentagonal League
The Pentagonal League is a defunct NCAA Division I ice hockey-only conference. The league was formed by Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton and Yale as a way of determining which team, among the oldest ice hockey programs, was the best. The league i ...
References
{{NCAA Division I hockey conferences
Defunct NCAA Division I ice hockey conferences
Sports in the Eastern United States