Collection number: MC 221
Size: 3 boxes
(0.83 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 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.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
This collection is open.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Birkmayer-Finke Intercollegiate Hockey Newsletters, 1953-1993, MC 221, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire Library, Durham, NH, USA.
Acquisitions Information
Donated: James Finke via Dr. Stephen Hardy, Kinesiology Dept., University of New Hampshire, Durham NH, 2010
Collection Contents
Box 1 | ||
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Box 1, Folder 1 | Volume 1 (issues 1-6 complete), 1953-1954 | |
Box 1, Folder 2 | Volume 2 (issues 1-8 complete), 1954-1955 | |
Box 1, Folder 3 | Volume 3 (issues 1-8 complete), 1955-1956 | |
Box 1, Folder 4 | Volume 4 (issues 1, 3-7, 9), 1956-1957 | |
Box 1, Folder 5 | Volume 5 (issues 1-8 complete), 1957-1958 | |
Box 1, Folder 6 | Volume 6 (issues 1-9 complete), 1958-1959 | |
Box 1, Folder 7 | Volume 7 (issues 1-8 complete), 1959-1960 | |
Box 1, Folder 8 | Volume 8 (issues 1-6, 8), 1960-1961 | |
Box 1, Folder 9 | Volume 9 (issues 1-9 complete), 1961-1962 | |
Box 1, Folder 10 | Volume 10 (issues 1-9 complete), 1962-1963 | |
Box 1, Folder 11 | Volume 11 (issues 1-6, 8-10), 1963-1964 | |
Box 1, Folder 12 | Volume 12 (issues 1-8 complete)1964-1965 | |
Box 1, Folder 13 | Volume 13 (issues 1-7, 9), 1965-1966 | |
Box 1, Folder 14 | Volume 14 (issues 1-8 complete), 1966-1967 | |
Box 1, Folder 15 | Volume 15 (issues 1-8 complete), 1967-1968 | |
Box 1, Folder 16 | Volume 16 (issues 1-8 complete), 1968-1969 | |
Box 1, Folder 17 | Volume 17 (issues 1-8 complete), 1969-1970 | |
Box 1, Folder 18 | Volume 18 (issues 1-9 complete), 1970-1971 | |
Box 1, Folder 19 | Volume 19 (issues 1-9 complete), 1971-1972 | |
Box 1, Folder 20 | Volume 20 (issues 1-11 complete), 1972-1973 | |
Box 2 | ||
Box 2, Folder 1 | Volume 21 (issues 1-10 complete), 1973-1974 | |
Box 2, Folder 2 | Volume 22 (issues 1-12 complete), 1974-1975 | |
Box 2, Folder 3 | Volume 23 (issues 1-12 complete), 1975-1976 | |
Box 2, Folder 4 | Volume 24 (issues 1-11 complete), 1976-1977 | |
Box 2, Folder 5 | Volume 25 (issues 1-12 complete), 1977-1978 | |
Box 2, Folder 6 | Volume 26 (issues 1-11 complete), 1978-1979 | |
Box 2, Folder 7 | Volume 27 (issues 1-10 complete), 1979-1980 | |
Box 2, Folder 8 | Volume 28 (issues 1-10 complete), 1980-1981 | |
Box 2, Folder 9 | Volume 29 (issues 1-9. missing #10), 1981-1982 | |
Box 2, Folder 10 | Volume 30 (issues 1-10 complete), 1982-1983 | |
Box 2, Folder 11 | Volume 31 (issues 1-10 complete), 1983-1984 | |
Box 2, Folder 12 | Volume 32 (issues 1-10 complete), 1984-1985 | |
Box 2, Folder 13 | Volume 33 (issues 1-10 complete), 1985-1986 | |
Box 2, Folder 14 | Volume 34 (issues 1-10 complete), 1986-1987 | |
Box 2, Folder 15 | Volume 35 (issues 1-11 complete), 1987-1988 | |
Box 2, Folder 16 | Volume 36 (issues 1-10 complete), 1988-1989 | |
Box 3 | ||
Box 3, Folder 1 | Volume 37 (issues 1-13 complete), 1989-1990 | |
Box 3, Folder 2 | Volume 38 (issues 1-12 complete), 1990-1991 | |
Box 3, Folder 3 | Volume 39 (issues 1-12 complete), 1991-1992 | |
Box 3, Folder 4 | Volume 40 (issues 1-11 complete), 1992-1993 |