Gordon McMillan Gordon " Gymie " McMillan ( born c . 1927 ) is a former ice hockey player who was a member of the Michigan Wolverines team that won the first NCAA Frozen Four in 1948 . He played four years of hockey at Michigan from 1946 - 1949 and broke the school ' s scoring record with 210 career points . Moose Jaw Monarchs . McMillan grew up in Moose Jaw , Saskatchewan , where he played center for the Moose Jaw Monarchs . In April 1945 , the Monarchs traveled to Lethbridge , Alberta to play the Lethbridge Native Sons for the western Canada juvenile hockey championship . McMillan , described as the team ' s " star centre " and a " starry redhead who is the mainspring of the Moose Jaw attack , " was left behind in Moose Jaw because his father was seriously ill . However , he arrived in Lethbridge by plane on the morning of the first game , and scored four goals and an assist , as his heads - up hockey and " fast break - aways kept the crowd in a dither . " The Monarchs won the series in two games , and McMillan was the high scorer with six goals and an assist . One month after the championship , McMillan ' s 42 - year - old father , a hockey coach who had been recently discharged from the Royal Canadian Air Force , died in Moose Jaw . University of Michigan . In the fall of 1945 , McMillan enrolled at the University of Michigan to play hockey for Wolverines ' coach Vic Heyliger . McMillan played four years of hockey at Michigan , from 1946 - 1949 , and was the team ' s leading scorer all four years . As a freshman in January 1946 , McMillan and teammate Wally Grant both scored hat trick s in a game against McMaster University from Hamilton , Ontario . As a junior in 1948 , McMillan broke Michigan ' s all - time scoring record , which had been set by the team ' s coach , Vic Heyliger , with 116 points . McMillan , who would exceed the record by nearly 100 points by the time he was finished , broke the record with Heyliger on the bench as coach in a February 1948 game against Michigan Tech ; McMillan earned six points on four goals and two assists in the game . The 1948 team led by McMillan , Wally Grant , Wally Gacek and Al Renfrew won the first NCAA Frozen Four ice hockey championship . Four teams were selected to play in the first NCAA ice hockey championship , held at the Broadmoor Hotel Ice Palace in Colorado Springs , Colorado . The four teams to play in the inaugural Frozen Four were Michigan , Boston College , Dartmouth and Colorado College . In the championship game against Dartmouth , McMillan scored two goals , as Michigan won 8 - 4 . McMillan and teammate Wally Gacek scored goals five seconds apart in the third period against Dartmouth , which remains a record for the fastest consecutive goals in the championship round . The hockey title capped off a year in which Michigan had also won the Rose Bowl and the conference basketball championship . As a senior in 1949 , McMillan had career highs with 36 assists and 60 points . ( His career - high in goals was 30 in 1948 . ) Though Michigan did not repeat as NCAA champions in 1949 , they did advance to the Frozen Four . They were beaten by Dartmouth 4 - 2 in a semi - final game . In his final game in a Michigan jersey , the Frozen Four consolation game in March 1949 , McMillan scored a hat trick , earning five points on three goals and two assists . McMillan ' s four - year scoring record at Michigan was as follows :