I just noticed on USCHO that Cornell is now the holder of THE BELT. Not that we follow such things here. . .
Sweet! After long last!
oooh! i just explained this to my girlfriend (she rolled her eyeys and asked if we had anything better to do), and now we have it! yes!!
In case anyone cares, and obviously no one here does ;), the last time that Cornell held The Belt was when they beat Clarkson on 01/30/1998, only to lose to SLU the next day.
Anyone know where a complete list could be found? Sounds like a fun (meaningless) thing to follow!
[quote grizzdan24]Anyone know where a complete list could be found? Sounds like a fun (meaningless) thing to follow![/quote]
Couldn't find the list, but Ursaminor will no doubt answer that question. He is probably the most rabid fan of "The Belt".
http://board.uscho.com/showthread.php?t=43167
Nevertheless, Age seems to have been a closet belt fan in the not too distant past. ("Not that there's anything wrong with it.")
http://www.elynah.com/?champbelt
[quote marty][quote grizzdan24]Anyone know where a complete list could be found? Sounds like a fun (meaningless) thing to follow![/quote]
Couldn't find the list, but Ursaminor will no doubt answer that question. He is probably the most rabid fan of "The Belt".
http://board.uscho.com/showthread.php?t=43167
Nevertheless, Age seems to have been a closet belt fan in the not too distant past. ("Not that there's anything wrong with it.")
http://www.elynah.com/?champbelt[/quote]
It's interesting that when Age (or whoever actually did it) went back, he didn't go quite far enough to reach Cornell's last possession. The entire history is indeed on that thread on USCHO, although when we were compiling it, we did not keep track of successful defenses.
I'll attempt to post the entire history, but I may run into a problem if the length of posts is limited on this board. We also compiled histories for league Belts and a few others. They are all on that USCHO thread.
Edit: That seems to have worked. Hopefully, Age won't complain about the amount of disk space used. :-D
Note that prior to the separation of the ECAC breaking up into D-I and D-II in 1963-64, all eastern schools were eligible to hold The Belt. Similarly, all western schools were eligible before the MCHL (precursor to the WCHA) was formed.
Ben from Dartmouth compiled the list of all the Belt rules. It is posted several times on the USCHO thread. One thing that should be mentioned is that multigame playoff series are treated as a single game. That means that the Belt won't be switched an extra time when the series is not a sweep. Our concern, however, was that in the day of two-game, total-goal series, the winner if the series wouldn't get the Belt if they lost the second game. This would have meant a lot of alternate Belts.
I wrote a spreadsheet to calculate how many days each school had The Belt in total, but I haven't updated it in at least a year.
Belt history
02/01/1896 Johns Hopkins tied Yale 2-2 in the first intercollegiate game
02/14/1896 Yale beat Johns Hopkins in a rematch
01/29/1898 Brown
01/20/1899 Pennsylvania
01/28/1899 Yale (not 100% sure this was Pennsylvania's next game)
02/07/1901 Brown
03/16/1901 Yale
02/07/1903 Princeton
12/30/1903 Yale
12/31/1903 Princeton
02/15/1904 Yale
02/22/1904 Harvard
01/19/1907 Princeton
01/08/1908 Dartmouth
01/15/1908 Yale
12/31/1908 Princeton
01/16/1909 Harvard
01/15/1910 Princeton
12/28/1910 Yale
12/29/1910 Princeton
01/14/1911 Cornell
01/01/1912 Yale
01/03/1912 Cornell
01/06/1912 Columbia
01/22/1912 Princeton
01/22/1913 Harvard
02/08/1913 Princeton
02/15/1913 Harvard
02/11/1914 Yale
02/28/1914 Harvard
01/20/1915 Dartmouth
02/08/1915 Yale
02/23/1915 Harvard
01/20/1917 Princeton
02/02/1917 Harvard
02/17/1917 Yale
02/28/1917 Princeton
02/15/1919 Yale
01/17/1920 Harvard
03/02/1922 Boston College beat Harvard in an exhibition game and gets an Alternate Belt
01/13/1923 Princeton
02/17/1923 Yale
03/07/1923 Harvard
02/09/1924 Yale
02/22/1924 Princeton
03/01/1924 Dartmouth
02/07/1925 Yale
12/29/1925 Williams (first non-Ivy to win The Belt)
12/30/1925 Yale
01/01/1926 Williams
01/20/1926 Harvard
02/18/1928 Dartmouth
01/02/1929 Yale
03/02/1929 Harvard
03/09/1929 Yale
03/01/1930 Harvard
03/08/1930 Yale
01/20/1932 Clarkson
01/10/1933 Princeton
01/21/1933 Harvard
02/25/1933 Yale
03/04/1933 Harvard
01/13/1934 Princeton
02/16/1934 Yale
02/24/1934 Harvard
03/03/1934 Yale
01/23/1935 Clarkson
12/30/1935 Harvard
01/11/1936 Princeton
01/15/1936 Clarkson
12/31/1936 Harvard
02/12/1938 Dartmouth
02/16/1938 Clarkson
02/11/1939 Colgate
12/28/1939 Dartmouth
02/03/1940 Princeton
02/22/1940 Yale
12/28/1940 Minnesota (first western school to win The Belt)
01/24/1941 Illinois
02/14/1941 Minnesota
01/02/1942 Dartmouth
01/05/1946 Yale
01/26/1946 Dartmouth
01/04/1947 Colorado College
02/28/1947 Minnesota
12/19/1947 Colorado College
02/12/1948 North Dakota
02/13/1948 Colorado College
02/23/1948 Michigan Tech
02/27/1948 Minnesota
02/28/1948 Michigan Tech
03/05/1948 Michigan
03/20/1948 Michigan won the first NCAA championship
01/31/1949 Michigan Tech
02/08/1949 California
02/11/1949 Colorado College
03/05/1949 Minnesota
03/19/1949 Minnesota did not make the NCAA Tourney, so Boston College gets an Alternate Belt
01/06/1950 North Dakota
02/03/1950 Colorado College
02/11/1950 Minnesota
02/24/1950 Michigan
03/17/1950 Boston University
03/18/1950 Colorado College
12/27/1950 Boston University
12/29/1950 Michigan
02/07/1951 Denver
03/02/1951 Michigan Tech
03/03/1951 Denver
03/17/1951 Denver did not make the NCAA Tourney, so Michigan gets an Alternate Belt
12/01/1951 Colorado College
12/07/1951 Denver
12/08/1951 Colorado College
12/22/1951 Yale
12/25/1951 Denver (Belts unified)
01/02/1952 Minnesota
01/04/1952 Colorado College
01/12/1952 Denver
02/19/1952 North Dakota
02/20/1952 Denver
03/15/1952 Denver did not make the NCAA Tourney, so Michigan gets an Alternate Belt
12/22/1952 Michigan (Belts unified)
12/23/1952 Denver
01/03/1953 Minnesota
01/17/1953 Michigan
02/13/1953 Minnesota
03/12/1953 Alternate Belt that Boston College received on 03/19/1949 finally unified
03/14/1953 Michigan
12/18/1953 North Dakota
01/09/1954 Minnesota
01/16/1954 Michigan
03/12/1954 Rensselaer
12/10/1954 Clarkson
01/15/1955 St. Lawrence
03/11/1955 Colorado College
03/12/1955 Michigan
12/10/1955 North Dakota
12/13/1955 Colorado College
12/14/1955 North Dakota
01/05/1956 Denver
01/20/1956 Colorado College
02/08/1956 Michigan
12/18/1956 Colorado College
01/11/1957 Denver
01/12/1957 Colorado College
02/08/1957 North Dakota
02/19/1957 Colorado College
03/01/1957 Michigan Tech
03/02/1957 Colorado College
12/13/1957 Denver
12/14/1957 Colorado College
12/18/1957 Michigan State
12/20/1957 Denver
01/01/1958 Minnesota
01/03/1958 Denver
01/13/1958 Colorado College
01/14/1958 Denver
01/31/1958 Minnesota
02/08/1958 Michigan
02/14/1958 Michigan State
02/21/1958 North Dakota
03/05/1958 Denver
03/06/1958 North Dakota
03/15/1958 Denver
12/15/1958 North Dakota
01/02/1959 Michigan Tech
01/03/1959 North Dakota
01/17/1959 Michigan
02/06/1959 Michigan State
02/14/1959 North Dakota
02/28/1959 Denver
03/14/1959 Denver did not make the NCAA Tourney, so North Dakota gets an Alternate Belt
12/08/1959 Michigan Tech (Belts Unified)
12/28/1959 Denver
12/29/1959 Michigan Tech
01/02/1960 Colorado College
01/08/1960 Minnesota
01/16/1960 North Dakota
02/19/1960 Michigan Tech
02/20/1960 North Dakota
03/11/1960 Michigan Tech
03/19/1960 Denver
12/16/1960 Michigan Tech
12/17/1960 Denver
12/08/1961 Michigan Tech
01/06/1962 Michigan
02/06/1962 Denver
02/17/1962 Michigan
03/03/1962 Michigan Tech
11/30/1962 Minnesota
12/01/1962 Michigan Tech
12/08/1962 Denver
12/14/1962 Michigan
12/15/1962 Denver
01/18/1963 Minnesota-Duluth
01/19/1963 Colorado College
01/25/1963 Minnesota
01/26/1963 Colorado College
02/01/1963 Minnesota
02/22/1963 North Dakota
03/09/1963 Denver
03/16/1963 North Dakota
12/08/1963 Denver
12/14/1963 Michigan
12/15/1963 Denver
03/03/1964 Michigan Tech
03/06/1964 Denver
03/21/1964 Michigan
12/05/1964 Minnesota
12/09/1964 Minnesota-Duluth
01/01/1965 Michigan Tech
01/16/1965 Minnesota
01/22/1965 Michigan State
01/23/1965 Minnesota
01/30/1965 North Dakota
02/12/1965 Minnesota-Duluth
02/13/1965 North Dakota
02/17/1965 Denver
02/19/1965 North Dakota
03/13/1965 Michigan Tech
01/14/1966 North Dakota
01/15/1966 Michigan Tech
01/28/1966 Michigan
02/04/1966 Michigan State
02/18/1966 Michigan Tech
03/05/1966 Michigan State
12/02/1966 Minnesota
12/03/1966 Michigan State
12/09/1966 Michigan
01/06/1967 Denver
01/07/1967 Michigan
02/04/1967 Michigan Tech
02/17/1967 Denver
03/11/1967 North Dakota
03/16/1967 Cornell
12/09/1967 Brown
12/16/1967 Harvard
12/18/1967 Cornell
03/15/1968 North Dakota
03/16/1968 Denver
11/15/1968 North Dakota
12/14/1968 Wisconsin
12/21/1968 Michigan Tech
01/18/1969 North Dakota
02/07/1969 Denver
02/15/1969 Michigan State
02/22/1969 Minnesota
03/07/1969 Michigan
03/08/1969 Michigan Tech
03/14/1969 Cornell
03/15/1969 Denver
12/05/1969 Michigan Tech
12/19/1969 New Hampshire
12/30/1969 Boston University
01/02/1970 Cornell
12/01/1970 Rensselaer
01/04/1971 Wisconsin
01/15/1971 Michigan State
01/16/1971 Wisconsin
02/05/1971 Minnesota
02/06/1971 Wisconsin
02/26/1971 Michigan State
03/05/1971 Michigan
03/06/1971 Michigan State
03/11/1971 Minnesota-Duluth
03/12/1971 Denver
03/18/1971 Boston University
12/30/1971 Cornell
01/08/1972 Harvard
01/15/1972 New Hampshire
02/11/1972 Boston University
02/23/1972 Boston College
03/04/1972 Pennsylvania
03/07/1972 New Hampshire
03/10/1972 Cornell
03/11/1972 Boston University
12/06/1972 Harvard
01/06/1973 Cornell
01/24/1973 Boston College
02/02/1973 New Hampshire
02/03/1973 St. Lawrence
02/21/1973 Clarkson
03/09/1973 Cornell
03/16/1973 Wisconsin
11/17/1973 Notre Dame
11/24/1973 Colorado College
12/14/1973 Michigan State
12/21/1973 Denver
12/28/1973 Minnesota-Duluth
01/04/1974 Notre Dame
01/11/1974 Denver
01/18/1974 Minnesota-Duluth
01/25/1974 Wisconsin
01/26/1974 Minnesota-Duluth
02/08/1974 Colorado College
02/09/1974 Minnesota-Duluth
02/15/1974 Michigan State
03/10/1974 Michigan Tech
03/16/1974 Minnesota
10/25/1974 Minnesota-Duluth
10/26/1974 Minnesota
11/02/1974 Michigan State
11/22/1974 Wisconsin
12/07/1974 Colorado College
12/27/1974 North Dakota
12/28/1974 Colorado College
01/11/1975 Michigan State
01/25/1975 Minnesota-Duluth
01/31/1975 Michigan
02/01/1975 Minnesota-Duluth
02/07/1975 Michigan Tech
02/08/1975 Minnesota-Duluth
02/14/1975 Colorado College
02/19/1975 Air Force
02/28/1975 Bowling Green State
03/07/1975 Lake Superior State
03/09/1975 St. Louis
03/15/1975 St. Louis, the CCHA champ, did not play in the NCAA tourney, so Michigan Tech gets an Alternate Belt
10/25/1975 North Dakota
10/31/1975 Michigan Tech (Belts unified)
11/01/1975 North Dakota
11/07/1975 Michigan
11/14/1975 Notre Dame
11/15/1975 Michigan
11/22/1975 Michigan Tech
12/30/1975 Michigan
01/02/1976 Colorado College
01/09/1976 Michigan Tech
01/23/1976 Wisconsin
01/24/1976 Michigan Tech
02/14/1976 Notre Dame
02/20/1976 Michigan State
02/21/1976 Notre Dame
03/06/1976 Wisconsin
03/11/1976 Michigan State
03/14/1976 Minnesota
10/22/1976 St. Louis
10/23/1976 Minnesota
11/05/1976 Michigan
11/13/1976 Notre Dame
11/19/1976 Michigan Tech
11/20/1976 Notre Dame
11/27/1976 Wisconsin
12/29/1976 Harvard
12/30/1976 Wisconsin
01/08/1977 Minnesota
01/15/1977 Denver
01/22/1977 Michigan Tech
02/11/1977 Wisconsin
02/25/1977 Denver
02/26/1977 Wisconsin
10/28/1977 Michigan Tech
10/29/1977 Wisconsin
11/05/1977 Colorado College
11/11/1977 Denver
12/16/1977 Minnesota
12/17/1977 Denver
01/06/1978 North Dakota
01/07/1978 Denver
01/13/1978 Notre Dame
01/14/1978 Denver
02/25/1978 Minnesota
03/03/1978 North Dakota
03/04/1978 Minnesota
03/11/1978 Colorado College
03/18/1978 Bowling Green State
03/24/1978 Boston College
03/25/1978 Boston University
12/29/1978 Michigan Tech
01/05/1979 Colorado College
01/06/1979 Michigan Tech
01/13/1979 Wisconsin
01/19/1979 Minnesota
01/20/1979 Wisconsin
01/27/1979 Minnesota-Duluth
02/02/1979 North Dakota
02/03/1979 Minnesota-Duluth
02/09/1979 Notre Dame
02/23/1979 Denver
03/02/1979 Colorado College
03/03/1979 Denver
03/07/1979 Minnesota-Duluth
03/11/1979 Minnesota
11/02/1979 Michigan
11/10/1979 Notre Dame
11/16/1979 Michigan State
11/17/1979 Notre Dame
11/30/1979 Wisconsin
12/01/1979 Notre Dame
12/09/1979 Western Michigan
12/14/1979 Ohio State
12/21/1979 North Dakota
01/04/1980 Northern Michigan
02/01/1980 Ohio State
02/02/1980 Northern Michigan
02/22/1980 Bowling Green State
02/23/1980 Northern Michigan
03/01/1980 Western Michigan
03/29/1980 Western Michigan did not make the CCHA playoffs, so North Dakota gets an Alternate Belt
10/17/1980 Wisconsin
10/25/1980 Denver
11/21/1980 Minnesota
11/29/1980 Wisconsin
12/05/1980 Minnesota-Duluth
12/06/1980 Wisconsin
01/02/1981 Rensselaer
01/10/1981 Northeastern
01/24/1981 Cornell
01/26/1981 Princeton
01/31/1981 Yale
02/06/1981 Maine
02/13/1981 Harvard
02/28/1981 Cornell
03/14/1981 Providence (Belts unified)
03/21/1981 Michigan Tech
03/26/1981 Minnesota
03/28/1981 Wisconsin
11/28/1981 Western Michigan
12/04/1981 Michigan Tech
12/11/1981 Michigan State
12/12/1981 Michigan Tech
12/30/1981 Notre Dame
01/09/1982 Illinois Chicago
01/15/1982 Michigan State
01/23/1982 Ohio State
02/13/1982 Bowling Green State
02/20/1982 Miami
02/27/1982 Ohio State
03/27/1982 Ohio State did not make the CCHA playoffs, so North Dakota gets an Alternate Belt
10/29/1982 Michigan State
11/12/1982 Northern Michigan
11/20/1982 Illinois Chicago
11/24/1982 Wisconsin
12/03/1982 Minnesota-Duluth
12/04/1982 Wisconsin
01/29/1983 North Dakota
02/11/1983 Minnesota
02/18/1983 Wisconsin (Belts unified)
02/19/1983 Minnesota
03/13/1983 Wisconsin
10/14/1983 Rensselaer
10/15/1983 Wisconsin
10/21/1983 North Dakota
11/18/1983 Minnesota
01/06/1984 Minnesota-Duluth
02/10/1984 Minnesota
02/11/1984 Minnesota-Duluth
03/24/1984 Bowling Green State
10/12/1984 Ferris State
10/19/1984 Michigan
10/27/1984 Bowling Green State
11/02/1984 Ohio State
11/03/1984 Bowling Green State
11/09/1984 Clarkson
11/17/1984 Rensselaer
11/23/1984 North Dakota
11/24/1984 Rensselaer
11/22/1985 Yale
11/23/1985 Vermont
12/12/1985 Western Michigan
01/04/1986 Michigan State
01/25/1986 Michigan
01/31/1986 Illinois Chicago
02/08/1986 US International
03/29/1986 US International did not make the NCAA Tourney, so Michigan State gets an Alternate Belt
10/31/1986 Alaska
11/01/1986 US International
11/22/1986 Alaska
11/23/1986 US International
12/02/1986 Ferris State
12/05/1986 Miami
12/09/1986 US International
12/13/1986 North Dakota
12/27/1986 Maine
01/02/1987 Minnesota
01/03/1987 Massachusetts Lowell
01/09/1987 Northern Michigan
01/16/1987 Denver
01/17/1987 Northern Michigan
01/23/1987 Minnesota
01/31/1987 Denver
02/06/1987 Michigan Tech
02/10/1987 Wisconsin
02/20/1987 Minnesota
03/14/1987 North Dakota
03/28/1987 (Belts unified)
10/16/1987 Minnesota
11/06/1987 Northern Michigan
11/07/1987 Minnesota
11/13/1987 Northeastern
11/21/1987 Maine
11/28/1987 Michigan Tech
12/04/1987 Wisconsin
01/02/1988 Maine
01/04/1988 North Dakota
01/08/1988 Minnesota
01/15/1988 Maine
02/13/1988 Massachusetts Lowell
02/17/1988 Boston University
02/20/1988 Providence
02/24/1988 Boston College
02/27/1988 Boston University
03/05/1988 Providence
03/09/1988 Maine
03/14/1988 Northeastern
03/19/1988 Merrimack
03/26/1988 Lake Superior State
10/15/1988 Michigan State
12/29/1988 North Dakota
12/30/1988 Michigan
01/06/1989 Lake Superior State
01/13/1989 Illinois Chicago
01/14/1989 Lake Superior State
01/28/1989 Bowling Green State
02/18/1989 Illinois Chicago
03/11/1989 Lake Superior State
03/12/1989 Michigan State
03/30/1989 Harvard
11/10/1989 Yale
11/11/1989 Dartmouth
11/25/1989 Vermont
12/09/1989 Boston University
12/12/1989 New Hampshire
12/30/1989 Providence
01/05/1990 Boston College
01/13/1990 Clarkson
02/02/1990 Colgate
02/16/1990 Brown
02/17/1990 Cornell
02/23/1990 Vermont
02/24/1990 Colgate
04/01/1990 Wisconsin
10/26/1990 Minnesota-Duluth
10/27/1990 Wisconsin
11/02/1990 Northern Michigan
11/16/1990 Minnesota
11/30/1990 North Dakota
12/01/1990 Minnesota
12/20/1990 Boston College
12/21/1990 Michigan State
12/28/1990 Maine
12/29/1990 Michigan
02/16/1991 Michigan State
02/22/1991 Illinois Chicago
02/23/1991 Michigan State
03/02/1991 Western Michigan
03/08/1991 Lake Superior State
03/24/1991 Clarkson
03/28/1991 Boston University
03/30/1991 Northern Michigan
10/26/1991 Minnesota-Duluth
11/01/1991 Wisconsin
11/02/1991 Minnesota-Duluth
11/08/1991 Boston University
11/16/1991 Maine
12/28/1991 Wisconsin
01/04/1992 North Dakota
01/10/1992 Northern Michigan
01/18/1992 Wisconsin
02/21/1992 Colorado College
03/20/1992 Minnesota
03/21/1992 Northern Michigan
03/29/1992 Michigan
04/02/1992 Wisconsin
04/04/1992 Lake Superior State
11/06/1992 Michigan
11/07/1992 Lake Superior State
12/12/1992 Michigan State
12/22/1992 Kent
01/15/1993 Illinois Chicago
01/16/1993 Miami
02/13/1993 Western Michigan
02/19/1993 Lake Superior State
02/26/1993 Michigan
03/20/1993 Lake Superior State
04/03/1993 Maine
11/19/1993 Boston University
11/20/1993 Maine
11/27/1993 Rensselaer
12/03/1993 Brown
12/08/1993 Boston University
12/30/1993 New Hampshire
01/08/1994 Merrimack
01/14/1994 Massachusetts Lowell
02/04/1994 Boston University
02/07/1994 Harvard
02/14/1994 Boston College
02/19/1994 New Hampshire
03/01/1994 Boston University
04/02/1994 Lake Superior State
10/21/1994 Northern Michigan
10/22/1994 Ferris State
10/29/1994 Michigan
11/18/1994 Miami
11/19/1994 Michigan
11/26/1994 Minnesota
12/10/1994 Denver
01/06/1995 St. Cloud
01/07/1995 Denver
01/13/1995 Minnesota-Duluth
02/04/1995 St. Cloud
03/05/1995 Minnesota
03/17/1995 Colorado College
03/18/1995 Wisconsin
03/25/1995 Michigan
03/30/1995 Maine
04/01/1995 Boston University
11/10/1995 New Hampshire
11/11/1995 Boston University
01/20/1996 Maine beat Boston University in a shootout and gets an Alternate Belt
01/26/1996 Massachusetts Lowell
02/10/1996 Massachusetts beat Massachusetts Lowell in a shootout and gets an Alternate Belt
02/25/1996 Boston University (Maine's Alternate Belt unified)
03/02/1996 Boston College (Massachusetts's Alternate Belt unified)
03/08/1996 Providence
03/23/1996 Minnesota
03/24/1996 Michigan
11/02/1996 Michigan State
11/08/1996 Alaska
11/09/1996 Michigan State
11/15/1996 Michigan
02/08/1997 Michigan State
02/14/1997 Miami
02/22/1997 Michigan State
02/23/1997 Ohio State
03/02/1997 Michigan
03/27/1997 Boston University
03/29/1997 North Dakota
10/31/1997 Minnesota
11/01/1997 North Dakota
11/15/1997 Minnesota-Duluth
11/21/1997 Wisconsin
11/28/1997 Michigan State
12/07/1997 Bowling Green State
12/27/1997 Dartmouth
01/02/1998 Harvard
01/03/1998 Vermont
01/10/1998 Yale
01/11/1998 Dartmouth
01/16/1998 Clarkson
01/30/1998 Cornell
01/31/1998 St. Lawrence
02/06/1998 Dartmouth
02/07/1998 Clarkson
02/13/1998 Rensselaer
02/20/1998 Vermont
03/06/1998 Harvard
03/20/1998 Clarkson
03/21/1998 Princeton
03/27/1998 Michigan
10/16/1998 Niagara
10/23/1998 Union
10/24/1998 Maine
11/13/1998 Massachusetts
11/24/1998 Vermont
11/28/1998 Maine
01/09/1999 Boston College
01/13/1999 Harvard
02/01/1999 Northeastern
02/05/1999 Maine
02/20/1999 Boston University
02/27/1999 Northeastern
03/05/1999 Massachusetts Lowell
03/11/1999 Boston College
04/01/1999 Maine
12/03/1999 Northeastern
12/19/1999 Harvard
12/29/1999 Minnesota
01/21/2000 North Dakota
01/22/2000 Minnesota
01/29/2000 Minnesota State
02/04/2000 Denver
02/05/2000 Minnesota State
03/04/2000 Minnesota-Duluth
03/11/2000 St. Cloud
03/17/2000 North Dakota
10/06/2000 New Hampshire beat North Dakota in a shootout and gets an Alternate Belt
10/20/2000 Michigan Tech
10/21/2000 North Dakota
10/27/2000 Minnesota State
10/28/2000 North Dakota
12/08/2000 Colorado College
12/09/2000 North Dakota
12/29/2000 Boston University
12/30/2000 Wisconsin
01/12/2001 Denver
01/19/2001 Colorado College
02/03/2001 St. Cloud
02/16/2001 Wisconsin
02/17/2001 St. Cloud
03/25/2001 Michigan
04/05/2001 Boston College
04/07/2001 (Belts unified)
10/12/2001 Denver
11/25/2001 New Hampshire
12/07/2001 Clarkson
12/08/2001 Massachusetts Lowell
12/29/2001 Denver
01/26/2002 Minnesota
02/01/2002 Minnesota-Duluth
02/02/2002 Minnesota
02/15/2002 Colorado College
02/16/2002 Minnesota
03/16/2002 Denver
03/23/2002 Michigan
04/04/2002 Minnesota
10/19/2002 New Hampshire
11/02/2002 Boston University
11/15/2002 Boston College
11/19/2002 New Hampshire
11/22/2002 Maine
01/03/2003 Providence
01/05/2003 Massachusetts
01/11/2003 Merrimack
01/18/2003 Maine
02/01/2003 New Hampshire
02/02/2003 Maine
02/07/2003 Boston College
02/10/2003 Boston University
02/21/2003 Providence
03/07/2003 Boston University
03/15/2003 New Hampshire
04/12/2003 Minnesota
10/10/2003 Maine
11/07/2003 Boston College
01/03/2004 Northeastern
01/09/2004 Boston University
01/16/2004 Boston College
02/28/2004 New Hampshire
03/06/2004 Boston University
03/12/2004 Boston College
03/13/2004 Boston University
03/19/2004 Maine
04/10/2004 Denver
10/09/2004 Minnesota
10/16/2004 Alaska Anchorage
10/23/2004 Alaska
11/12/2004 Lake Superior State
11/13/2004 Alaska
11/26/2004 Notre Dame
11/27/2004 Alaska
12/03/2004 Ohio State
12/11/2004 Clarkson
12/31/2004 Ferris State
01/07/2005 Ohio State
01/08/2005 Ferris State
01/15/2005 Nebraska Omaha
01/22/2005 Miami
02/05/2005 Western Michigan
02/12/2005 Northern Michigan
03/17/2005 Alaska
03/18/2005 Michigan
03/26/2005 Colorado College
04/07/2005 Denver
10/14/2005 Maine
11/06/2005 Boston University
11/11/2005 New Hampshire
11/19/2005 Massachusetts Lowell
12/02/2005 St. Lawrence
12/03/2005 New Hampshire
12/08/2005 Harvard
12/16/2005 Dartmouth
12/30/2005 Vermont
01/06/2006 New Hampshire
01/21/2006 Massachusetts
01/27/2006 Massachusetts Lowell
01/28/2006 Boston College
02/02/2006 Massachusetts
02/10/2006 Boston University
02/17/2006 New Hampshire
02/18/2006 Boston University
03/25/2006 Boston College
04/08/2006 Wisconsin
10/13/2006 North Dakota
10/14/2006 Wisconsin
10/27/2006 Boston College
10/31/2006 Providence
11/03/2006 Massachusetts
11/21/2006 Vermont
12/03/2006 New Hampshire
12/29/2006 Cornell
Alternate Belts caused by shootout wins, Beltholders not making the NCAA tourney, etc.
03/02/1922 Boston College (beat Harvard in an exhibition game) Alternate Belt
12/23/1924 Boston University
01/09/1925 Hamilton
01/24/1925 MIT
02/18/1925 Yale (Belts Unified)
03/19/1949 Boston College (1949 Champions) Alternate Belt
02/13/1950 Boston University
02/17/1950 Dartmouth
02/21/1950 Brown
Brown did not make the NCAA Tourney keeping this Alternate Belt alive
12/11/1950 Boston College
12/20/1950 Harvard
01/02/1951 North Dakota
02/03/1951 Minnesota
Minnesota did not make the NCAA Tourney keeping this Alternate Belt alive into another season
12/28/1951 Yale
01/09/1952 Brown
02/02/1952 Yale
02/06/1952 St. Lawrence
02/16/1952 Rensselaer
02/29/1952 St. Lawrence
03/01/1952 Hamilton
03/05/1952 Middlebury
Middlebury did not make the NCAA Tourney keeping this Alternate Belt alive into yet another season
01/10/1953 Rensselaer
03/12/1953 Minnesota (Belts finally unified)
03/17/1951 Michigan (1951 Champions) Alternate Belt
12/21/1951 Denver
12/25/1951 Belts unified
03/15/1952 Michigan (1952 Champions) Alternate Belt
12/22/1952 Belts unified
03/14/1959 North Dakota (1959 Champions) Alternate Belt
12/05/1959 Michigan Tech
12/08/1959 Belts unified
03/15/1975 Michigan Tech (1975 Champions) Alternate Belt
10/31/1975 Belts unified
03/29/1980 North Dakota (1980 Champions) Alternate Belt
10/18/1980 Northern Michigan
10/25/1980 Michigan State
10/31/1980 North Dakota
11/08/1980 Minnesota-Duluth
11/28/1980 Colorado College
12/12/1980 Denver
12/13/1980 Colorado College
12/29/1980 Cornell
01/10/1981 Dartmouth
01/13/1981 Boston College
02/06/1981 Providence
02/11/1981 New Hampshire
02/26/1981 Maine
03/02/1981 Providence
03/14/1981 Belts unified
03/27/1982 North Dakota (1982 Champions) Alternate Belt
10/22/1982 Providence
10/23/1982 North Dakota
10/29/1982 Minnesota-Duluth
11/05/1982 Minnesota
11/06/1982 Minnesota-Duluth
11/13/1982 Denver
11/19/1982 Minnesota
12/03/1982 North Dakota
12/04/1982 Minnesota
01/14/1983 Minnesota-Duluth
01/15/1983 Minnesota
01/22/1983 Denver
02/04/1983 Minnesota
02/05/1983 Denver
02/11/1983 Wisconsin
02/18/1983 Belts unified
03/29/1986 Michigan State (1986 Champions) Alternate Belt
11/07/1986 Illinois Chicago
11/08/1986 Michigan State
12/05/1986 Lake Superior State
12/06/1986 Michigan State
12/27/1986 Western Michigan
01/03/1987 Ferris State
01/10/1987 Lake Superior State
01/24/1987 Western Michigan
01/31/1987 Michigan
02/20/1987 Bowling Green State
03/07/1987 Michigan State
03/28/1987 Belts unified
01/20/1996 Maine beat Boston University in shootout Alternate Belt
02/02/1996 Boston College
02/05/1996 Boston University
02/25/1996 Belts unified
02/10/1996 Massachusetts beat Massachusetts Lowell in shootout Alternate Belt
03/01/1996 Boston College
03/02/1996 Belts unified
10/26/2000 New Hampshire beat North Dakota in shootout Alternate Belt
11/03/2000 Yale
11/10/2000 St. Lawrence
11/18/2000 Clarkson
11/25/2000 Cornell
11/26/2000 Niagara
12/08/2000 Merrimack
12/15/2000 Dartmouth
12/30/2000 Vermont
01/05/2001 Dartmouth
01/19/2001 Clarkson
01/26/2001 Cornell
01/27/2001 St. Lawrence
02/02/2001 Princeton
02/03/2001 Clarkson
02/09/2001 Union
02/10/2001 St. Lawrence
02/17/2001 Harvard
02/24/2001 Union
03/02/2001 Colgate
03/03/2001 Rensselaer
03/09/2001 Dartmouth
03/16/2001 St. Lawrence
03/23/2001 Colorado College
03/24/2001 North Dakota
04/07/2001 Belts unified
I think it's clear that the Champsionship Belt means the honor accruing to the team that beat the previous champion, then the team to beat that team, and so on. A short explanation of alternate belts would be helpful:
- when the belt-holder fails to make the NCAAs, who gets it and when
- what happens if there's a belt defense game in which there's a tie but it's settled by a shootout that doesn't count as a win
- can a Canadian school take the belt away (belt holder loses to McGill)
- forfeits (?)
There are long and passionate explanatories about this elsewhere. The Cliff's Notes version might help here.
I'm of the opinion that the belt really doesn't count until it was 'invented', which I seem to remember being around 2000 or 2001. That's around when I started reading college hockey boards, and I seem to remember when people came up with it, but I could be wrong.
How can you be said to have had a belt if no one had even thunk it up yet at that point? That said, the effort to reconstruct it is very impressive (and crazy).
[quote DeltaOne81]I'm of the opinion that the belt really doesn't count until it was 'invented', which I seem to remember being around 2000 or 2001. That's around when I started reading college hockey boards, and I seem to remember when people came up with it, but I could be wrong.
How can you be said to have had a belt if no one had even thunk it up yet at that point? That said, the effort to reconstruct it is very impressive (and crazy).[/quote]
Likewise the "regular season" ECAC championship, which no one knew about until the NCAA was browbeaten into giving an auto-bid for it.
[quote DeltaOne81]I'm of the opinion that the belt really doesn't count until it was 'invented', [/quote]
Nah, the belt was far superior before it was invented. Back then it was pure and untainted by the gross commercialism that surrounds the belt today. I prefer the pre-belt belt.
[quote billhoward]I think it's clear that the Champsionship Belt means the honor accruing to the team that beat the previous champion, then the team to beat that team, and so on. A short explanation of alternate belts would be helpful:
- when the belt-holder fails to make the NCAAs, who gets it and when
- what happens if there's a belt defense game in which there's a tie but it's settled by a shootout that doesn't count as a win
- can a Canadian school take the belt away (belt holder loses to McGill)
- forfeits (?)
There are long and passionate explanatories about this elsewhere. The Cliff's Notes version might help here.[/quote]
When the Belt holder fails to make the NCAA tourney, the Belt holder keeps the Belt. Since not everyone agrees with this, an Alternate Belt is awarded to the NCAA champion. This can currently only happen if one of the bottom two teams in the HEA has The Belt. It took several years for the Alternate Belt that was awarded to BC in 1949 to be unified with The Belt.
Shootouts are ignored. However, again Alternate Belts are awarded. When the HEA was using shootouts to break all ties, this caused several Alternate Belt, including two that overlapped, to be awarded.
Games vs. Canadian and D-II/III schools are ignored.
I think that we decided that forfeits are ignored. You have to win The Belt in the ring, oops rink.
[quote DeltaOne81]I'm of the opinion that the belt really doesn't count until it was 'invented', which I seem to remember being around 2000 or 2001. That's around when I started reading college hockey boards, and I seem to remember when people came up with it, but I could be wrong.
How can you be said to have had a belt if no one had even thunk it up yet at that point? That said, the effort to reconstruct it is very impressive (and crazy).[/quote]
That agrees with my recollection of when it started. In that case, this is Cornell's first possession of The Belt. Please keep it in the ECAC tonight. :-D
If you read the beginning of the thread on USCHO, you will see that we first wanted to go back only to the first NCAA championship in 1948. Things just expanded because we wanted to see if we could do it.
[quote schoaff][quote DeltaOne81]I'm of the opinion that the belt really doesn't count until it was 'invented', [/quote]
Nah, the belt was far superior before it was invented. Back then it was pure and untainted by the gross commercialism that surrounds the belt today. I prefer the pre-belt belt.[/quote]
Once something is discovered, it has already sold out. Or, "as soon as you understand something, it is by definition obsolete."
AFAIK, all of the various Belts were inspired by the original, soccer belt (http://www.ufwc.co.uk/), which is dated from November 30, 1872 (http://www.ufwc.co.uk/1872scotengl.html).
I always thought you RPI/Cornell guys were nuts... now I know
So, if I am understanding Ralph Baer's post #838 on USCHO and correctly, it would be technically possible for Cornell to hold The Belt, the ECAC(HL) Belt, the Ivy Belt and the Red White Belt all at the same time after the January 20th game?
[quote reilly83]So, if I am understanding Ralph Baer's post #838 on USCHO and correctly, it would be technically possible for Cornell to hold The Belt, the ECAC(HL) Belt, the Ivy Belt and the Red White Belt all at the same time after the January 20th game?[/quote]
Woof, woof, woof, woof!
(http://www.wolf.org/wolves/learn/intermed/images/ethiopian_wolf.jpg)
What I said was not meant to be woofing. It is not obnoxious, inflammatory, or boastful. And, I did not predict what was going to happen. I merely find the possibility interesting,given where the belts are now and what the schedule is over the next 4 weekends.
But that is a very nice picture.
[quote reilly83]What I said was not meant to be woofing. It is not obnoxious, inflammatory, or boastful. And, I did not predict what was going to happen. I merely find the possibility interesting,given where the belts are now and what the schedule is over the next 4 weekends.
But that is a very nice picture.[/quote]
I like your Avatar!
And the belt stays with us for one whole day!