ECAC Holiday Hockey Festival

The ECAC Holiday Hockey Festival was an annual NCAA men's Division I ice hockey tournament held annually at Madison Square Garden in New York City around the Christmas and New Year holiday. The tournament began in the year the ECAC was founded and continued unabated for fifteen years before dissolving after the 1976–77 season.
The tournament was the first mid-season event sponsored by ECAC Hockey and initially only invited four members of the conference to participate. As the competition grew and became more prestigious it was expanded to 6 teams for the 1964 iteration and, two years later, invited the first non-conference member to participate (Minnesota). The championship returned to a 4-team tournament in 1967. For the first 12 years the tournament was held before Christmas but began to wane in interest and was not held in 1973. After a year hiatus it returned, this time being played after the New Year. The change to January didn't seem to help matters and the Festival was permanently discontinued three years later.
==Yearly results==
Year	Champion 	Runner-up 	Third place 	Fourth place
1977	Boston University	Colgate 	St. Lawrence 	Bowdoin
1976	Clarkson 	Vermont 	Cornell 	Pennsylvania
1975	Cornell 	St. Lawrence	Brown 	Boston College
1972	St. Louis 	Notre Dame 	Clarkson 	St. Lawrence
1971	Notre Dame 	St. Lawrence	Boston College	Brown
1970	Harvard 	Clarkson 	Yale 	Bowdoin
1969	Cornell 	St. Lawrence	Boston College	Rensselaer
1968	Clarkson 	Yale 	BrownDartmouth	None
1967	Cornell 	Brown 	St. Lawrence 	Clarkson
Year	Champion 	Runner-up 	Third place 	Fourth place	Fifth place 	Sixth place
1966	Boston University	Clarkson 	Minnesota 	St. Lawrence	Yale 	Princeton
1965	Cornell 	St. Lawrence	ColgateNortheastern	None 	YaleBoston College	None
1964	Northeastern 	Brown 	Clarkson 	Providence 	Cornell 	St. Lawrence
Year	Champion 	Runner-up 	Third place 	Fourth place
1963	Clarkson 	Boston College	Brown 	Army
1962	Boston College	Clarkson 	St. Lawrence 	Cornell
1961	Clarkson 	St. Lawrence 	Boston CollegeBoston University	None
Note: * denotes overtime
==Team records==
Team 	# of times participated	Titles
Clarkson 	10 	4
Cornell 	7 	4
Boston University	3 	2
Boston College 	7 	1
Northeastern 	2 	1
Notre Dame 	2 	1
Harvard 	1 	1
St. Louis 	1 	1
St. Lawrence 	11 	0
Brown 	6 	0
Yale 	4 	0
Bowdoin 	2 	0
Colgate 	2 	0
Army 	1 	0
Dartmouth 	1 	0
Minnesota 	1 	0
Princeton 	1 	0
Providence 	1 	0
Rensselaer 	1 	0
Vermont 	1 	0
==References==
Category:Ice hockey tournaments