Season Highlights
Season Highlights
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| -1957 | From 1901-1957, Cornell skates thirty-four teams. The 1911 team is named Intercollegiate Champion. In 1948, Cornell drops the program for ten years. | |||
| 1958 | Paul Patten becomes coach. A 16-3 win over Lehigh Hockey Club inaugurates Lynah Rink for Cornell. | |||
| 1959 | The Red surrender ten or more goals nine times and are outscored by Harvard 31-0 in two games. | |||
| 1960 | Cornell survives the worst season in their history. A nineteen game losing streak is bounded by opening and closing wins. | |||
| 1961 | The Red outscores Penn 22-1 in two wins and is thus no longer the bottom of the Ivy League. | |||
| 1962 | The "birth" of Cornell hockey: 2-1 win over Harvard at Lynah with Laing Kennedy in net. | |||
| 1963 | All-American Kennedy captains an 8-9-0 team as Cornell continues to build legitimacy. | |||
| 1964 | Ned Harkness, coach of former NCAA champion at RPI, hired. 2-1 win at Harvard first in a long, long time. | |||
| 1965 | 5 |
5 |
The Ferguson brothers arrive on Lynah ice and herald a 19-5 season and a first appearance in the ECAC tournament. | |
| 1966 | 3 |
2 |
Doug Ferguson is named co-captain. The 22-5 team loses the ECAC championship game to Clarkson. | |
| 1967 | 2 |
1 |
1 |
27-2. Sophomore Ken Dryden outlasts North Dakota 1-0 in the semifinal, then beats burgeoning rival Boston University 4-1 to win the national title. |
| 1968 | 1 |
1 |
3 |
27-2. Traditional powerhouse North Dakota ends Cornell's twenty-three game winning streak in the NCAA semifinal. |
| 1969 | 1 |
1 |
2 |
Dryden's self-described "only regret": a 3-4 loss to defending champion Denver in the national title game. |
| 1970 | 1 |
1 |
1 |
Nerve-wracking one goal ECAC semifinal (Harvard), final (Clarkson), and NCAA semifinal (Wisconsin) wins en route to 29-0-0 national title. |
| 1971 | 3 |
4 |
Dick Bertrand becomes coach. Cornell enters the ECAC semifinal with a 21-3-1 record but misses the NCAA tournament. | |
| 1972 | 1 |
2 |
2 |
For the fourth time in six years, Cornell plays in the NCAA final, losing to BU at Boston Garden, just as they had a week earlier in the ECAC final. |
| 1973 | 1 |
1 |
4 |
A span of six trips to the NCAA Final Four in seven seasons ends with a disappointing overtime loss to Wisconsin. |
| 1974 | 4 |
3 |
The BU Terriers claim the mantel of Best of the East with an ECAC semifinal win, and Cornell's period of NCAA dominance wanes. | |
| 1975 | 4 |
4 |
An ECAC semifinal loss to Harvard disappoints a nationally-competitive team, which is edged out of the NCAA field. | |
| 1976 | 5 |
3 |
A 9-7 upset quarterfinal win at Walker gets Cornell to their eleventh straight ECAC Final Four. | |
| 1977 | 3 |
3 |
A 10-9 overtime loss to UNH in the ECAC semifinal's end a twenty win season and caps a long period of Boston Garden frustration. | |
| 1978 | 2 |
5 |
Providence shocks Cornell at Lynah to bring a second consecutive high-scoring, twenty win season to an early end. | |
| 1979 | 3 |
3 |
Cornell gets revenge over Providence in one of the wildest and least probable wins in Lynah history. | |
| 1980 | 8 |
1 |
4 |
The greatest underdog run in ECAC history, upsetting #1, #2, and #3 to win the title. Northern Michigan ends Cornell's season in the NCAA semifinal. |
| 1981 | 7 |
2 |
5 |
Another great post-season run comes up just short with a loss to Providence in the ECAC final. Northern Michigan ends Cornell's season, again. |
| 1982 | 10 |
Lou Reycroft becomes coach. I come to Cornell and thus a seventeen season ECAC playoff run immediately ends. | ||
| 1983 | 9 |
The Harvard rivalry becomes bitter when Darren Eliot is injured after an overtime loss in Cambridge. Mike Schafer arrives as a freshman defenseman. | ||
| 1984 | 12 |
While the difficulties continue, Cornell completes a storied comeback over Harvard after falling behind by four goals in the first ten minutes. | ||
| 1985 | 4 |
3 |
Joe Nieuwendyk arrives and Cornell loses to the eventual national champion RPI in the ECAC semifinal. | |
| 1986 | 3 |
1 |
5 |
Duane Moeser beats Yale in double-overtime, Chris Grenier beats Clarkson in overtime, and Cornell wins their seventh ECAC title. |
| 1987 | 9 |
Nieuwendyk ECAC POTY and a Hobey finalist. After season, Brian McCutcheon is named coach. | ||
| 1988 | 3 |
5 |
A freshman-dominated revival is upset at Lynah by Clarkson, in an ECAC quarterfinal series extended to a mini-game. | |
| 1989 | 5 |
4 |
Cornell returns the favor with an upset win at Clarkson in the ECAC quarterfinal (0-0 second game), then loses to St. Lawrence in the semifinal. | |
| 1990 | 3 |
3 |
After dominating Harvard in Ithaca in the ECAC quarterfinal, Cornell is upset by RPI at Boston Garden when Ross Lemon misses his birthday penalty shot. | |
| 1991 | 2 |
3 |
9 |
Kent Manderville's tying goal with two seconds remaining sparks Cornell's first NCAA win in six years, but Michigan takes the first round series. |
| 1992 | 5 |
2 |
After upsetting Yale in QF, defeats Clarkson in semifinal and loses to St. Lawrence in final. | |
| 1993 | 11 |
After a four year run of ECAC Final Four appearances, the bottom falls out and an interval of struggle begins. | ||
| 1994 | 8 |
5 |
After a thrilling overtime first round victory over Princeton, Cornell loses the ECAC quarterfinal series at Harvard. | |
| 1995 | 9 |
5 |
The red are routed at Clarkson in the ECAC quarterfinals. After the season ends, Mike Schafer is named head coach. | |
| 1996 | 4 |
1 |
9 |
Cornell beats Harvard and Clarkson for their first Lake Placid title, then loses to Lake Superior on a late goal in their first NCAA game in six years. |
| 1997 | 2 |
1 |
5 |
The Red repeat, beat Miami for their first NCAA advance in twenty-five years, then lose to eventual national champion North Dakota in the QF. |
| 1998 | 8 |
5 |
Jason Elliott backstops upset at RPI in the ECAC quarterfinal before losing to Princeton in the ECAC play-in game. | |
| 1999 | 7 |
9 |
Matt Underhill arrives. Cornell blows two leads to lose a frustrating first round ECAC series at Princeton. | |
| 2000 | 4 |
4 |
Knocking off Clarkson in the ECAC play-in game, the Red then lose in overtime to eventual Frozen Four St. Lawrence in the semifinal. | |
| 2001 | 4 |
2 |
A semifinal win over Harvard is followed by another loss to St. Lawrence, this time in the ECAC title game. | |
| 2002 | 1 |
2 |
5 |
After running away with the RS title, Cornell loses in double overtime to Harvard in the ECAC final, then loses 4-3 to #1 UNH in the NCAA quarterfinal. |
| 2003 | 1 |
1 |
3 |
Thirty victories, a tenth ECAC championship, and #1 in the polls earns a trip to the Frozen Four and a second straight NCAA loss to UNH. |
| 2004 | 2 |
5 |
Cornell battles to second place despite losing the talented Class of '03, then is foiled by Clarkson at Lynah in a QF shocker. | |
| 2005 | 1 |
1 |
5 |
A dominant defensive team with offensive flashes, Cornell goes 18-0-1 down the stretch, disposes of Harvard in the Albany final, then falls in Minneapolis. |
| 2006 | 3 |
2 |
5 |
2 double-ot QF wins to get to their fifth ECAC final in six years; shock CC in the NCAAs; then lose the 2nd-longest game in NCAA tourny history. McKee, O'Byrne and Pokulok leave early in the off-season. |
| 2007 | 4 |
5 |
Rebuilding, ending with a disappointing Lynah sweep by Quinnipiac. The off-season sees Riley Nash commit. | |
| 2008 |
5 |
3 |
The team that couldn't win the big one returns to Albany before losing the SF to Harvard. |