1911–12 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season

College ice hockey season March 2026 August 2023 color:white; background:#000000; a #FF6000 2px white white Princeton Tigers white 1911–12 Princeton Tigers logo.svg Princeton Tigers men Intercollegiate Hockey Association IHA 1st 8–2–0 4–0–0 2–0–0 6–2–0 Gus Hornfeck Alfred Kay St. Nicholas Rink, New York City Intercollegiate ChampionIntercollegiate Hockey Association, Champion 1910–11 1912–13 Princeton Tigers #FFFFFF background:#eeeeee; The 1911–12 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season was the 13th season of play for the program. Season After a disappointing end to their previous season, second-year captain Alfred Kay looked to lead the team back to the top of the Intercollegiate Hockey Association. That job was made slightly easier due to Harvard removing itself from the conference due to a new policy by the operators at the St. Nicholas Rink.https://theprince.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=Princetonian19120110-01&e=------190-en-20--21-byDA-txt-txIN-hockey----1903-- Volume 36, Number 158 The Princeton Daily January 12, 1912 February 15, 2020 The Tigers began their season just after the start of the winter break with a game against Williams. Princeton won the extraordinarily lopsided game 14–0 and the headed to Cleveland for a three-game series with Yale. As they had the year before, Princeton won two of the three games but through their first four games it was apparent that the Tigers had a budding star on their hands.https://theprince.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=Princetonian19120105-01.2.8&e=------190-en-20--21-byDA-txt-txIN-hockey----1903-- Volume 36, Number 154 The Princeton Daily January 5, 1912 February 15, 2020 thumb|right|200px|Hobey Baker Sophomore Hobey Baker distinguished himself from the first game against Williams, scoring 6 goals and immediately becoming the focal point of the Princeton offense. Baker's first real test with the team came in early January against Dartmouth. In their first conference game of the year Princeton utterly dominated the greens, posting the largest victory in the history of IHA play, 14–0.https://theprince.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=Princetonian19120108-01.2.7&e=------190-en-20--21-byDA-txt-txIN-hockey----1903-- Volume 36, Number 156 The Princeton Daily January 8, 1912 February 15, 2020 Throughout the game Baker was obvious as the best player on the ice and, while he scored four goals himself, he was responsible for a dozen of Princeton's scores, assisting directly on five of Kuhn's six tallies. The next game came against Harvard who, despite having left the IHA, had agreed to play two games against Princeton that year. Despite their impressive wins to that point the Tigers had yet to face a team as talented as the Crimson and that was proven when Harvard skated away with a 3–2 win.https://theprince.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=Princetonian19120111-01&e=------190-en-20--21-byDA-txt-txIN-hockey----1903-- Volume 36, Number 159 The Princeton Daily January 11, 1912 February 15, 2020 Even in defeat Baker starred, scoring a goal and assisting on the other while simultaneously trying to hold back the vaunted Harvard attack. Still stinging after the defeat, Princeton laid into defending champion Cornell in their next game with Baker again the center of attention. The rover scored his second hat-trick of league play and assisted on at least two other goals in the Tigers' 6–1 win.https://theprince.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=Princetonian19120115-01.2.9&e=------190-en-20--21-byDA-txt-txIN-hockey----1903-- Volume 36, Number 162 The Princeton Daily January 15, 1912 February 15, 2020 A week later the Tigers played their second game against Harvard, this time at the Crimson's home venue. Princeton repaid Harvard for the earlier loss with their own 3–2 victory with Baker's second goal of the game serving as the eventual game-winner.https://theprince.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=Princetonian19120122-01&e=------190-en-20--21-byDA-txt-txIN-hockey----1903-- Volume 36, Number 168 The Princeton Daily January 22, 1912 February 15, 2020 Princeton returned to its conference schedule just two days later against an improving Columbia team. The Lions kept the game close until midway through the second half when Baker scored a natural hat-trick to give the Tigers a commanding lead that they would ride to a 6–2 victory.https://theprince.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=Princetonian19120123-01.2.9&e=------190-en-20--21-byDA-txt-txIN-hockey----1903-- Volume 36, Number 169 The Princeton Daily January 23, 1912 February 15, 2020 In Princeton's final game of the season they took on Yale, the only team that could stop them from claiming the IHA championship. The two teams battled to a 0–0 draw after the first half but in the second half, as he had done all season, Hobey Baker came alive for the Tigers. He recorded yet another hat-trick and added an assist on Alfred Kay's goal to give the Tigers a 4–1 victory and their second championship in three years.https://theprince.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=Princetonian19120208-01&e=------190-en-20--21-byDA-txt-txIN-hockey----1903-- Volume 36, Number 171 The Princeton Daily February 8, 1912 February 15, 2020 Despite being a sophomore, Hobey Baker was the best player on his team and likely the best in college hockey, if not the entire country. He scored a hat-trick in each of the four IHA games, notching 26 goals and at least 15 assists in just 10 games. The team, recognizing his talent and leadership, elected him captain for the following season. Roster yes Hobey Baker Hobey Baker so R 5 9 161 1892 1 15 USA Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania St. Paul's School yes Lawrence Blair sr D yes Thornton Emmons so D yes Dean Kalbfleisch sr G yes Alfred Kay sr RW USA Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania yes Wendel Kuhn so C yes Robert C. Lee jr D yes James McKinney sr LW yes https://www.eliteprospects.com/team/1551/princeton-univ./1911-1912?tab=stats 1911-1912 Roster Elite Prospects January 4, 2020 Standings PRI PRI Schedule and results no |- !colspan=12 style="Princeton Tigers #FFFFFF;" | Regular Season December 21 w yes yes no Williams St. Nicholas Rink New York, New York 14–0 1–0–0 December 28 w yes yes no Yale Elysium Arena Cleveland, Ohio 4–1 2–0–0 December 29 w yes yes no Yale Elysium Arena Cleveland, Ohio 7–2 3–0–0 December 30 l yes yes no Yale Elysium Arena Cleveland, Ohio 3–4 OT 3–1–0 January 6 w yes no Dartmouth Boston Arena Boston, Massachusetts 14–0 4–1–0 1–0–0 January 10 l yes yes no Harvard St. Nicholas Rink New York, New York 2–3 4–2–0 January 13 w yes no Cornell St. Nicholas Rink New York, New York 6–1 5–2–0 2–0–0 January 20 w yes yes no Harvard Boston Arena Boston, Massachusetts 3–2 6–2–0 January 22 w yes no Columbia St. Nicholas Rink New York, New York 6–2 7–2–0 3–0–0 January 27 w yes no Yale St. Nicholas Rink New York, New York 4–1 8–2–0 4–0–0 no no https://goprincetontigers.com/sports/2016/6/28/mens-hockey-all-time-results.aspx?id=1097 Men's Hockey All-Time Results Princeton Tigers January 4, 2020 References 50em Category:Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey seasons Princeton Princeton Princeton