1897–98 Brown men's ice hockey season

March 2026 August 2023 color:white; background:#4E3629; a #E03A3E 2px white white Brown white 1897–98 Brown Bears wordmark.png Brown men Intercollegiate Hockey Association IHA 1st 4–1–1 3–0–1 4–1–1 Irving Hunt Intercollegiate ChampionIntercollegiate Hockey Association, Champion 1898–99 Brown Bears #FFFFFF background:#eeeeee; thumb|A plaque in Meehan Auditorium commemorates the first game The 1897–98 Brown men's ice hockey season was the inaugural season of play for the program. Season For Brown's first ice hockey season all games were played on the road. The travel schedule was rather light, however, as the furthest they had to travel was New York City. The Bears finished with a very good record of 4–1–1 and, with their only loss coming against a non-collegiate opponent, the Bears could lay claim to the Intercollegiate championship (though there were few active college programs). First game Often cited as the "first game of intercollegiate ice hockey played in the United States" is the contest against Harvard on January 19, 1898 at Franklin Park, Boston.Hanlon John When Harvard Met Brown It Wasn't Ice Polo https://www.si.com/vault/1967/04/17/612980/when-harvard-met-brown-it-wasnt-ice-polo 23 February 2020 Sports Illustrated 17 April 1967 A lot of weird games between a lot of scrub teams probably were played on ice before Jan. 19, 1898, but on that day modern intercollegiate hockey competition was officially born Students from Brown took the train to Boston, where they met with some students from Harvard. They commandeered a patch of a frozen pond in Franklin Park, asked pleasure skaters to move aside, set up some poles to mark the goals, and played the game of ice hockey they had learned in Canada. The details and outcome of the game were recorded in the following day's Boston Herald: Brown 6, Harvard 0. Mascot Brown University did not formally adopt the Bear as its mascot until the fall of 1905.https://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/Databases/Encyclopedia/search.php?serial=B0130 Bear Brown University December 30, 2019 Roster thumb|left|300px|First Brown University hockey team in 1897–98. From left: Robert Steere, Harris Bucklin, Jesse Pevear, Irving Hunt, Albert Barrows, Charles Cooke, Horace Day. (William Bates not pictured) left yes Albert Barrows sr F 1877 10 13 USA Providence, Rhode Island yes William Bates fr 1879 1 7 USA Providence, Rhode Island yes Harris Bucklin so F yes Charles Cooke jr yes Horace Day jr yes Irving Hunt Irving O. Hunt jr F 1878 1 30 USA Providence, Rhode Island yes C Jesse Pevear jr 1877 5 26 USA Lynn, Massachusetts yes Robert Steere fr yes https://www.eliteprospects.com/team/1320/brown-univ./1897-1898?tab=stats 1897-1898 Roster Elite Prospects December 30, 2019 Standings BRN BRN Schedule and results no |- !colspan=12 style="Brown Bears #FFFFFF;" | Regular Season January 19 w yes yes no Harvard Franklin Park Boston, Massachusetts 6–0 1–0–0 January 29 w yes no Yale New Haven, Connecticut 1–0 2–0–0 1–0–0 February 12 w yes no Columbia Clermont Avenue Skating Rink New York, New York 3–1 3–0–0 2–0–0 February 18 t yes no Yale New Haven, Connecticut 0–0 OT 3–0–1 2–0–1 February 19 l yes yes no New York Athletic Club St. Nicholas Rink New York, New York 1–8 3–1–1 February 26 w yes no Yale New Haven, Connecticut 2–1 4–1–1 3–0–1 no no https://s3.amazonaws.com/sidearm.sites/brownuni.sidearmsports.com/documents/2018/5/7/2009_Men_s_Ice_Hockey_Media_Guide_Part_2.pdf 2009–10 Brown men's ice hockey media guide part 2 Brown Bears December 30, 2019 February 8, 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230208140804/https://s3.amazonaws.com/sidearm.sites/brownuni.sidearmsports.com/documents/2018/5/7/2009_Men_s_Ice_Hockey_Media_Guide_Part_2.pdf dead References 50em Category:Brown Bears men's ice hockey seasons Brown Brown Brown