MC 221

3 boxes (.83 cu.ft.)

About The Intercollegiate Hockey Newsletter:

The Intercollegiate Hockey Newsletter covered scores, standings and game notes for all 4 leagues of NCAA Division I hockey and was the authoritative source for information about the college hockey scene. It was published in Troy, NY by Don T. Birkmayer beginning with the 1953-1954 season and it continued for 40 years through the end of the 1993-1993 season. At least four more volumes were subsequently published by David B. Erickson of N.Billerica, MA. For most of the years, it was reproduced using stencils and mimeograph machines. The last years were produced on a computer and consequently the quality of printing, format and paper, improved.

The idea for the newsletter arose from the frustration of Ned Harkness, Birkmayer and others in the RPI hockey community over the slowness in obtaining scores for other hockey games across the country. This was particularly an issue in the 1952-1953 season when RPI were in the running for one of the NCAA tournament berths (which they eventually obtained).

Don Birkmayer was a graduate of RPI and became an off-ice official and, for over 30 years, the public address announcer for all RPI games. His final announcing assignment was the memorable four-overtime game between Boston University and St. Lawrence in the NCAA Regional at Albany’s Pepsi Arena.

Jim Finke donated the forty volumes of the Birkmayer era newsletters in the summer of 2008 and also supplied most of the above information. He is ECAC Tournament Historian and assistant regional commissioner for the Babe Ruth baseball league. A 1962 St. Lawrence University graduate, he has been affiliated with NCAA hockey for a number of years.

About the The Intercollegiate Hockey Newsletter collection:

The collection contains all forty volumes of The Intercollegiate Hockey Newsletter, dating from 1953-1993. However, the following issues are missing: Vol. 4, #2 and #8; Vol. 8 #7; Vol.11, #7; Vol. 13 #8, and Vol. 29 #10.