# Rensselaer Holiday Tournament

The Rensselaer Holiday Tournament was a college ice hockey tournament hosted by the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. The tournament was held annually for a duration of sixty years, from 1951 to 2010 at the Houston Field House. It was, at various times, known as the Rensselaer Invitational, RPI Invitational, RPI Invitational Christmas Tournament, RPI Christmas Tournament, Rensselaer/Midland Bank Holiday Tournament, Rensselaer/HSBC Holiday Tournament and Rensselaer/Bank of America Holiday Tournament. It was the oldest college hockey tournament in the United States, older than the Beanpot by a year. Since the tournament has not been renewed since the 2010-2011 season, The Beanpot is now the oldest.
In the first edition, eight teams played in a knockout bracket. From 1952 until 1980, four teams played a round-robin. Beginning in 1981, four teams were seeded and played a bracket format with a consolation game. Rensselaer won the championship for the first time in nearly a decade in what turned out to be the tournament's final year.

## Results

| Year | Champion | Runner-up | Third place | Fourth place | Fifth place | Sixth place | Seventh place | Eighth place |
| 1951 | Brown | St. Patrick's | RPI | Loyola | Harvard | Dartmouth | Williams | MIT |
| Year | Champion | Runner-up | Third place | Fourth place |
| 1952 | Princeton | RPI | St. Patrick's | Yale |
| 1953 | St. Francis Xavier | RPI | Brown | Princeton |
| 1954 | Toronto | RPI | St. Francis Xavier | Yale |
| 1955 | Minnesota | RPI | Princeton | Loyola |
| 1956 | Michigan Tech | McGill | RPI | Laval |
| 1957 | RPI | Brown | Yale | New Brunswick |
| 1958 | Michigan State | RPI | Brown | Princeton |
| 1959 | North Dakota | Montreal | RPI | Yale |
| 1960 | RPI | Harvard | New Brunswick | Princeton |
| 1961 | Michigan | RPI | McGill | Yale |
| 1962 | Minnesota | McMaster | RPI | Providence |
| 1963 | RPI | Cornell | Loyola | Yale |
| 1964 | Minnesota–Duluth | McGill | RPI | Colgate |
| 1965 | Western Ontario | Bowdoin | RPI | Middlebury |
| 1966 | Michigan | RPI | Colgate | New Brunswick |
| 1967 | McMaster | Michigan Tech | RPI | Yale |
| 1968 | Waterloo | RPI | Army | Ohio |
| 1969 | Providence | RPI | Montreal | Bowling Green |
| 1970 | Wisconsin | RPI | Western Ontatio | Northeastern |
| 1971 | Clarkson | RPI | Ohio | New Brunswick |
| 1972 | Minnesota–Duluth | RPI | Providence | Carleton |
| 1973 | Boston University | RPI | Dartmouth | Ohio State |
| 1974 | Northeastern | Bowling Green | RPI | Sir George Williams |
| 1975 | Providence | RPI | Princeton | Northeastern |
| 1976 | RPI | Clarkson | Yale | Penn |
| 1977 | RPI | Ohio State | St. Mary's | McGill |
| 1978 | St. Lawrence | RPI | Princeton | Air Force |
| 1979 | Western Michigan | Northeastern | Western Ontario | RPI |
| 1980 | Maine | RPI | Vasby | Holy Cross |
| 1981 | St. Lawrence | Brown | North Dakota | RPI |
| 1982 | RPI | UMass Lowell | Bowling Green | Brown |
| 1983 | RPI | UMass Lowell | Northern Arizona | Yale |
| 1984 | RPI | Toronto | Miami (OH) | Ferris State |
| 1985 | RPI | Lake Superior State | RIT | Alaska–Anchorage |
| 1986 | Ferris State | Alaska–Fairbanks | Merrimack | RPI |
| 1987 | RPI | McGill | Holy Cross | U.S. International |
| 1988 | Providence | RPI | Air Force | Notre Dame |
| 1989 | RPI | Merrimack | Union | Brown |
| 1990 | RPI | Western Ontario | Union | Alaska–Fairbanks |
| 1991 | St. Lawrence | RPI | Northeastern | Union |
| 1992 | Providence | RPI | Clarkson | UMass Lowell |
| 1993 | RPI | UMass Lowell | Army | Mount Allison |
| 1994 | Maine | RPI | Merrimack | Miami (OH) |
| 1995 | Clarkson | Illinois–Chicago | Providence | RPI |
| 1996 | RPI | Brown | UMass | Bowling Green |
| 1997 | Lake Superior | RPI | Yale | Army |
| 1998 | RPI | Minnesota–Duluth | Merrimack | Union |
| 1999 | Providence | RPI | Bowling Green | Union |
| 2000 | St. Lawrence | Providence | RPI | Notre Dame |
| 2001 | RPI | UMass | Niagara | Quinnipiac |
| 2002 | Merrimack | Wayne State | Princeton | RPI |
| 2003 | Northeastern | Mercyhurst | Colgate | RPI |
| 2004 | Air Force | RPI | Robert Morris | Sacred Heart |
| 2005 | Nebraska–Omaha | Holy Cross | RPI | Providence |
| 2006 | Niagara | Colgate | RPI | Ohio State |
| 2007 | Notre Dame | RPI | Alabama–Huntsville | American International |
| 2008 | Northeastern | RPI | Mercyhurst | Princeton |
| 2009 | Union | RPI | Bentley | Lake Superior |
| 2010 | RPI | Bowling Green | Alabama-Huntsville | Connecticut |