# 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.

## Season

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. In spite of the hasty arrangement, Bates played a local aggregation first and won their opening match 3–0. 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. 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. 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.

## Standings

1919–20 Collegiate ice hockey standingsvte :
| | Intercollegiate | Intercollegiate | Intercollegiate | Intercollegiate | Intercollegiate | Intercollegiate | Intercollegiate | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | 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

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

## Scoring statistics

| 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 |