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The 1921–22 YMCA College Maroons men's ice hockey season was the 18th season of play for the program.

Season

The '22 season was a complete disaster for the Maroons. The year began with the team losing their coach, Paul Otto, who sited too many other responsibilities as the reason for his departure. While Benny Leonard, the team captain and manager, agreed to act as coach for the year, he was caught short and only managed to schedule 6 games. To make matters worse, J. Howard Starr, the team best defenseman, could only play on occasion due to his studies. While the team was able to get Starr in the lineup for the first game, they were missing Delano who was recovering from surgery.

A warm winter meant that most of the early-season training for the team happened off the ice and all of those degrading effects caused the Maroons to open the year with a bad defeat at the hands of Williams. The Ephs were by far the better team all game long and YMCA had no chance for victory in the match. After a subsequent loss to Amherst, Benny Leonard was admitted to hospital with acute Appendicitis and needed surgery to fix the issue. Because he was lost for the year, the team was now down to just one returning player (Courtney) with the rest of the club made up of new faces. While Courtney took over as captain, George Bergini, the coach of the Springfield Hockey Club, offered to help the team in its time of need and finished out the year as coach. Somewhat surprisingly, the team was able to win its next game but Rensselaer was and had been one of the worst programs for over a decade and the Maroons' victory had as much to do with the quality of their opponent as anything else.

The following week the team travelled to face Army and found themselves on the wrong end of a 0–7 beating. The shorthanded team got a small bit of good news heading into the rematch with Amherst; the Lord Jeffs were dealing with similar roster problems. YMCA had a chance to avenge their earlier defeat but, even handicapped, the Sabrinas were too much for the Maroons and handed them yet another shutout loss. YMCA ended the year with a second defeat of RPI, the only goal coming from Courtney. The poor but respectable record belied the terrible state the program was in. The situation was so bad that the program was shuttered for the following year.

Benny Leonard served as team manager.

Roster

No.	S/P/C	Player	Class	Pos	Height	Weight	DoB	Hometown	Previous team
		Walter A. Courtney (C)	Junior	D				Maynard, Massachusetts
		William A. Hamm	Sophomore	RW				Bridgeport, Connecticut
		Leon L. Houston	Senior	G				Lisbon Falls, Maine
		John G. Lang Jr.	Sophomore	LW				St. Thomas, Ontario
		Albert S. Leonard (C)	Senior	C			1899-02-10	Melrose, Massachusetts
		W. T. Lindsay	Sophomore	RW				Quincy, Massachusetts
		D. Hector Reid	Sophomore	C				Hamilton, Ontario
		J. Howard Starr	Senior	D			1899-07-16	New Haven, Connecticut
		F. T. Wall	Sophomore	D/LW				Birmingham, Indiana
		Edwin H. Ward	Senior	C/LW				Norwood, Massachusetts

Standings

Schedule and results

Scoring statistics

References

1. ^ "Springfield College Yearbook, 1922". Springfield College. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
2. "Hockey Season Begins Tomorrow". The Springfield Student. January 13, 1922. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
3. "Puckmen Bow to Williams". The Springfield Student. January 20, 1922. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
4. "Hockey Team Defeats R.P.I." The Springfield Student. January 27, 1922. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
5. "R.P.I. Tomorrow". The Springfield Student. February 11, 1922. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
6. "Hockey Season Closes". The Springfield Student. February 18, 1922. Retrieved July 25, 2023.

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