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
==References==
Category:NCAA Tournaments
Category:Rensselaer Engineers