# 1921–22 YMCA College Maroons men's ice hockey season

The 1921–22 YMCA College Maroons men's ice hockey season was the 18th season of play for the program.

## Season

The '22 season was a complete disaster for the Maroons. The year began with the team losing their coach, Paul Otto, who sited too many other responsibilities as the reason for his departure. While Benny Leonard, the team captain and manager, agreed to act as coach for the year, he was caught short and only managed to schedule 6 games. To make matters worse, J. Howard Starr, the team best defenseman, could only play on occasion due to his studies. While the team was able to get Starr in the lineup for the first game, they were missing Delano who was recovering from surgery.
A warm winter meant that most of the early-season training for the team happened off the ice and all of those degrading effects caused the Maroons to open the year with a bad defeat at the hands of Williams. The Ephs were by far the better team all game long and YMCA had no chance for victory in the match. After a subsequent loss to Amherst, Benny Leonard was admitted to hospital with acute Appendicitis and needed surgery to fix the issue. Because he was lost for the year, the team was now down to just one returning player (Courtney) with the rest of the club made up of new faces. While Courtney took over as captain, George Bergini, the coach of the Springfield Hockey Club, offered to help the team in its time of need and finished out the year as coach. Somewhat surprisingly, the team was able to win its next game but Rensselaer was and had been one of the worst programs for over a decade and the Maroons' victory had as much to do with the quality of their opponent as anything else.
The following week the team travelled to face Army and found themselves on the wrong end of a 0–7 beating. The shorthanded team got a small bit of good news heading into the rematch with Amherst; the Lord Jeffs were dealing with similar roster problems. YMCA had a chance to avenge their earlier defeat but, even handicapped, the Sabrinas were too much for the Maroons and handed them yet another shutout loss. YMCA ended the year with a second defeat of RPI, the only goal coming from Courtney. The poor but respectable record belied the terrible state the program was in. The situation was so bad that the program was shuttered for the following year.
Benny Leonard served as team manager.

## Standings

1921–22 Eastern 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 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 0 | .400 | 14 | 15 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 14 | 15 |
| Army | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | .643 | 23 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 26 | 15 |
| Bates | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | .429 | 17 | 16 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 44 | 25 |
| Boston College | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 16 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 23 | 16 |
| Bowdoin | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | .167 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 12 | 18 |
| Clarkson | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | 2 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 20 |
| Colby | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | .375 | 5 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 25 |
| Colgate | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .000 | 3 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 24 |
| Columbia | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | .500 | 21 | 24 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 21 | 24 |
| Cornell | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | .800 | 17 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 10 |
| Dartmouth | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | .750 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 5 |
| Hamilton | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | .875 | 45 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 51 | 22 |
| Harvard | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 33 | 5 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 51 | 17 |
| Massachusetts Agricultural | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | .556 | 16 | 23 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 20 | 30 |
| MIT | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | .500 | 14 | 18 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 0 | – | – |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | 2 | 5 | 0 | .286 | 16 | 28 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 23 | 29 |
| Princeton | 7 | 2 | 5 | 0 | .286 | 12 | 21 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 21 | 28 |
| Rensselaer | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | .000 | 2 | 28 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 28 |
| Union | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 12 | 12 |
| Williams | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | .438 | 27 | 19 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 27 | 19 |
| Yale | 14 | 7 | 7 | 0 | .500 | 46 | 39 | 19 | 9 | 10 | 0 | 55 | 54 |
| YMCA College | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | .333 | 3 | 21 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 21 |

## Schedule and results

| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Record |
| Regular Season |||||
| January 14 | at Williams* | Cole Field House Rink • Williamstown, Massachusetts | L 1–8 | 0–1–0 |
| January 18 | Amherst* | Pratt Field Rink • Springfield, Massachusetts | L 0–5 | 0–2–0 |
| January 21 | at Rensselaer* | RPI Rink • Troy, New York | W 1–0 | 1–2–0 |
| January 28 | at Army* | Stuart Rink • West Point, New York | L 0–7 | 1–3–0 |
| February 4 | at Amherst* | Pratt Field Rink • Amherst, Massachusetts | L 0–2 | 1–4–0 |
| February 11 | Rensselaer* | Pratt Field Rink • Springfield, Massachusetts | W 1–0 | 2–4–0 |
| *Non-conference game. |||||

## Scoring statistics

| Name | Position | Games | Goals |
| Walt Courtney | CP | - | 2 |
| W. Lindsay | RW | - | 1 |
| Bill Hamm | RW | - | 0 |
| Leon Houston | G | - | 0 |
| John Lang | LW | - | 0 |
| Benny Leonard | C | - | 0 |
| Hector Reid | C | - | 0 |
| Howie Starr | P | - | 0 |
| F. Wall | P/LW | - | 0 |
| Ed Ward | C/LW | - | 0 |
| Total | | | 3 |