1919–20 Bates men's ice hockey season

The 1919–20 Bates men's ice hockey season was the inaugural season of play for the program.

1919–20 Bates
men's ice hockey season
ConferenceIndependent
Home iceLake Andrews
Record
Overall4–4–0
Home3–3–0
Road0–1–0
Neutral1–0–0
Coaches and captains
Head coachCarl H. Smith
Captain(s)Ralph Burns
Bates men's ice hockey seasons
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Season

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After several years of informal teams being organized by students, Bates decided to support a varsity ice hockey team for the first time. Because the school delayed the decision, the team had only a short time to arrange a schedule and ended up playing Bowdoin in four of their seven games.[1] In spite of the hasty arrangement, Bates played a local aggregation first and won their opening match 3–0.[2] Bates then tortured Bowdoin with a pair of dominant performances. After Sauvage netted a hat-trick in the first meeting, Provost posted 6 goals in the rematch.[3] In between those matches, the team suffered its first loss of the year in overtime. The first road game for the team was a fast match that needed three separate 5-minute overtimes to decide but a shot that deflected off of captain Burns' stick past Wiggin doomed the garnet skaters.

The rematch with Portland went about as well as the first while an amateur team from Canada, called the Nibrocks of La Tuque, arrived in early February and handed the team another loss. While Bates was able to keep up with the foreigners in the game, the lack of teamwork allowed the Canadians to block any offense the team managed to put together.[4] Bates then ended its season by splitting a pair of games with Bowdoin during the winter carnival. The score of the each match was 1–0 with Bates taking the first before seeing the Bears finally win one of their own. Poor ice conditions slowed the games down

Note: Bates did not adopt the 'Bobcats' moniker until 1924.

Roster

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No. S/P/C Player Class Pos Height Weight DoB Hometown Previous team
  Carl W. Belmore Junior C 1899-05-07 Wakefield, Massachusetts
  Romeo A. Bernard Junior RW 1897-11-03 Auburn, Maine
  Gerald H. Buker Senior D/F 1897-11-05 Waterbury, Vermont
  Ralph A. Burns (C) Senior D/F 1897-04-05 Vinalhaven, Maine
  Chester F. Cleaves Freshman 1901-10-13 Buxton, Maine
  Felix V. Cutler Junior R/RW 1894-02-24 Brookline, Massachusetts
Raymond L. Kendall Junior
John Mosher D
Romeo R. Provost Sophomore LW/RW 1896-10-04
  Edward F. Roberts Freshman C/RW 1901-10-14 Presque Isle, Maine
  Carl P. Rounds Sophomore RW 1898-01-01 Minot, Maine
Norman J. Sauvage Freshman D 1897-03-22
  Leighton G. Tracy Senior D 1897-12-15 Boston, Massachusetts
  Ervin E. Trask Senior LW 1899-07-24 Fairfield, Maine
  Carleton L. Wiggin Junior G 1897-07-29 Dover, New Hampshire
  Donald K. Woodard Junior D/LW 1897-02-28 Colebrook, New Hampshire

Standings

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Intercollegiate Overall
GP W L T PCT. GF GA GP W L T GF GA
Amherst 2 2 0 0 1.000 4 1 2 2 0 0 4 1
Army 5 3 1 1 .700 20 6 7 4 2 1 26 11
Bates 4 3 1 0 .750 15 6 8 4 4 0 21 19
Boston College 7 5 2 0 .714 41 17 8 6 2 0 45 19
Boston University 2 0 2 0 .000 2 19 2 0 2 0 2 19
Bowdoin 4 1 3 0 .250 6 15 6 2 4 0 17 28
Dartmouth 7 6 1 0 .857 26 5 10 6 4 0 30 16
Fordham
Hamilton 5 3 2 0
Harvard 7 7 0 0 1.000 44 10 13 10 3 0 65 33
Massachusetts Agricultural 5 3 2 0 .600 22 10 5 3 2 0 22 10
Michigan College of Mines 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 2 1 10 16
MIT 6 4 2 0 .667 27 22 8 5 2 1 42 31
New York State
Notre Dame 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 10 5
Pennsylvania 3 0 2 1 .167 3 13 7 1 5 1 15 35
Princeton 6 1 5 0 .167 13 31 10 2 8 0 22 53
Rensselaer 4 1 3 0 .250 24 8 4 1 3 0 24 8
Tufts 4 0 4 0 .000 4 16 4 0 4 0 4 16
Williams 5 3 2 0 .600 10 9 5 3 2 0 10 9
Yale 4 2 2 0 .500 14 9 9 4 5 0 36 38
YMCA College

Schedule and results

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Date Opponent Site Result Record
Regular Season
January 14 vs. St. Dominique's* Lake Andrews RinkLewiston, Maine W 3–0  1–0–0
January 21 Bowdoin* Lake Andrews RinkLewiston, Maine W 5–1  2–0–0
January 24 at Portland Hockey Club* Portland, Maine L 1–3 3OT 2–1–0
January 28 Bowdoin* Lake Andrews RinkLewiston, Maine W 9–4  3–1–0
January 31 at Portland Hockey Club* Lake Andrews RinkLewiston, Maine L 2–6  3–2–0
February 3 Nibrocks* Lake Andrews RinkLewiston, Maine L 0–4  3–3–0
February 26 Bowdoin* Lake Andrews RinkLewiston, Maine W 1–0  4–3–0
February 27 Bowdoin* Lake Andrews RinkLewiston, Maine L 0–1  4–4–0
*Non-conference game.

Scoring statistics

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Name Position Games Goals
Romeo Provost R/LW/RW 7 9
Norman Sauvage P/CP/RW 4 4
Felix Cutler C/R/RW/CP 7 4
Eddie Roberts C/R/LW/RW 7 2
Ralph Burns CP/C/R/LW/RW 8 2
Chester Cleaves Substitute 1 0
Carl Belmore C 1 0
Lee Tracy CP 1 0
Ervin Trask LW 1 0
Romeo Bernard RW 2 0
Ray Kendall Substitute 2 0
Carl Rounds RW 3 0
Don Woodward P/CP/R/LW 7 0
John Mosher P/CP 8 0
Jerry Buker P/CP/RW 8 0
Carl Wiggin G 8 0
Total 21

References

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  1. ^ "Bates Mirror 1920". Bates College. Retrieved June 8, 2023.
  2. ^ "Springfield 2; Bates 1". Bates Student. February 25, 1921. Retrieved June 8, 2023.
  3. ^ "Bates Sextet Smothers Bowdoin". Bates Student. January 30, 1920. Retrieved June 8, 2023.
  4. ^ "Fast Game Goes to Nibrocks". Bates Student. February 6, 1920. Retrieved June 8, 2023.