1927–28 Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey season

1927–28 Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey season
Conference	Independent
Home ice	Boston Arena
Record
Overall	7–2–0
Home	4–1–0
Road	1–0–0
Neutral	2–1–0
Coaches and captains
Head coach	Joseph Stubbs
Captain(s)	John Chase
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The 1927–28 Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey season was the 30th season of play for the program.

Season

Joseph Stubbs was brought in as the program's 4th head coach and like his predecessors he was a Harvard grad. Unlike the previous three coaches, however, Stubbs had not been a member of the team. That seemed to make little difference when the team began the season with a 9–0 drubbing of MIT. The Crimson played well thorough the early part of their season, winning their first three games before dropping a match against McGill at Madison Square Garden.

Harvard dominated in their next two games, but those matches were spread out over a month. By mid-February the Crimson had played only three games from the start of the year and when they met Dartmouth the Indians finally broke through with their first win over Harvard in four years. Following their second loss, Harvard had just its series with Yale remaining and the two titans fought a close battle in the first match. Regulation ended in a 1–1 draw and the arrangement between the two teams called for two 5-minute overtime periods to be played. John Chase scored mid-way through the first and then the Harvard defense held the fort to earn the Crimson the win.

The rematch was played a week later and this time Harvard was able to win the game in regulation, shutting down Yale's offense. The win prevented Yale from being able to claim an Intercollegiate championship, with the Eli's having been undefeated against all other collegiate opponents. Because Dartmouth, Harvard and Yale had all defeated one another during the season and with no conference championship to settle the difference, no Eastern champion was named in 1928.

Roster

No.	S/P/C	Player	Class	Pos	Height	Weight	DoB	Hometown	Previous team
		Albert S. Bigelow	Junior	D
		Hugh W. Bigelow	Junior	D
		John P. Chase (C)	Senior	C			1906-06-12	Milton, Massachusetts
		C. P. Clifford	Graduate	LW
		John Cross	Sophomore	LW
		Davis		C
		Rene F. G. Giddens	Sophomore	LW/RW
		Guy C. Holbrook Jr.	Sophomore	C
		Willard Howard	Graduate	D
		Waldo Howland	Sophomore	RW
		Charles B. Lakin	Sophomore	RW
		Mills		LW/RW
		Joseph Morill Jr.	Senior	G
		B. Henry Newell	Junior	G
		Arthur W. Richardson		C
		William G. Saltonstall	Senior	D
		John Tudor	Junior	LW/RW
		H. T. Wetmore	Sophomore	LW/RW

Standings

1927–28 Eastern Collegiate ice hockey standings
	Intercollegiate								Overall
	GP	W	L	T	Pct.	GF	GA		GP	W	L	T	GF	GA
Amherst	–	–	–	–	–	–	–		7	4	2	1	–	–
Army	8	1	7	0	.125	6	36		9	1	8	0	9	44
Bates	10	5	5	0	.500	21	26		12	6	5	1	26	28
Boston College	–	–	–	–	–	–	–		7	2	4	1	19	25
Boston University	9	6	2	1	.722	42	23		9	6	2	1	42	23
Bowdoin	8	3	5	0	.375	16	27		9	4	5	0	20	28
Brown	–	–	–	–	–	–	–		12	4	8	0	–	–
Clarkson	10	9	1	0	.900	59	13		11	10	1	0	61	14
Colgate	4	0	4	0	.000	4	18		4	0	4	0	4	18
Cornell	5	2	3	0	.400	11	29		5	2	3	0	11	29
Dartmouth	–	–	–	–	–	–	–		10	6	4	0	64	23
Hamilton	–	–	–	–	–	–	–		8	5	2	1	–	–
Harvard	6	5	1	0	.833	28	8		9	7	2	0	45	13
Holy Cross	–	–	–	–	–	–	–		–	–	–	–	–	–
Massachusetts Agricultural	6	0	6	0	.000	5	17		6	0	6	0	5	17
Middlebury	–	–	–	–	–	–	–		8	7	1	0	–	–
MIT	4	1	3	0	.250	6	35		4	1	3	0	6	35
New Hampshire	–	–	–	–	–	–	–		9	7	1	1	33	26
Norwich	–	–	–	–	–	–	–		4	0	2	2	–	–
Princeton	–	–	–	–	–	–	–		12	5	7	0	–	–
Rensselaer	–	–	–	–	–	–	–		4	2	1	1	–	–
St. Lawrence	–	–	–	–	–	–	–		4	2	2	0	–	–
Syracuse	–	–	–	–	–	–	–		–	–	–	–	–	–
Union	5	0	4	1	.100	10	21		5	0	4	1	10	21
Williams	8	6	2	0	.750	27	12		8	6	2	0	27	12
Yale	13	11	2	0	.846	88	22		18	14	4	0	114	39
YMCA College	6	2	4	0	.333	10	15		6	2	4	0	10	15

Schedule and Results

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Record
Regular Season
December 9	vs. MIT*	Boston Arena • Boston, Massachusetts	W 9–0	1–0–0
December 16	vs. Boston University*	Boston Arena • Boston, Massachusetts	W 5–3	2–0–0
December 31	vs. Toronto*	Boston Arena • Boston, Massachusetts	W 4–1	3–0–0
January 7	vs. McGill*	Madison Square Garden • Manhattan, New York	L 1–3	3–1–0
January 18	vs. Brown*	Boston Arena • Boston, Massachusetts	W 7–0	4–1–0
February 9	vs. St. Francis Xavier*	Boston Arena • Boston, Massachusetts	W 12–1	5–1–0
February 18	vs. Dartmouth*	Boston Arena • Boston, Massachusetts	L 1–4	5–2–0
February 25	at Yale*	New Haven Arena • New Haven, Connecticut	W 2–1 2OT	6–2–0
March 3	vs. Yale*	Boston Arena • Boston, Massachusetts	W 2–0	7–2–0
*Non-conference game.