1937–38 Cornell Big Red men's ice hockey season

1937–38 Cornell Big Red
men's ice hockey season
1937–38 Cornell Big Red; men's ice hockey season
Home ice	Beebe Lake
Record
Overall	0–4–0
Home	0–1–0
Road	0–3–0
Coaches and captains
Head coach	Nick Bawlf
	Cornell Big Red men's ice hockey seasons; « 1936–37 1938–39 »

The 1937–38 Cornell Big Red men's ice hockey season was the 31st season of play for the program. The teams was coached by Nick Bawlf in his 16th season.

Season

Cornell commenced its season on January 4 while the ice was still too thin for the temporary boards to be set up.^[1] The team scheduled its first game in mid-January so it would have a couple of weeks to practice together ahead of the match, a luxury the Big Red rarely possessed in recent years. The first game of the season, a contest against Columbia, was cancelled at the last minute, leaving Cornell with two games prior to the semester break.^[2] The opening game came against Colgate and the Maroons got the better of the Big Red once again.^[3] The team had to fix its problems quickly as the second game was just three days away. Unfortunately, Cornell was hopelessly outmatched by Clarkson and embarrassed to the tune of 0–10.

Cornell had to live with that loss for a full month before their next game. A rematch with Clarkson that was to be played on the 10th was cancelled due to weather.^[4] The temperature got so bad that even the rematch with Colgate had to be scrapped.^[5] Cornell ended up having to finish its season on the road and the lack of available ice for practice proved disastrous. The Big Red lost a pair of 1-goal games and ended the year without a loss, producing their worst season in 25 years.

Roster

Player	Class	Pos	DoB	Hometown
Jack Babson		RW		Yonkers, New York
Albert Bosson	Junior	G		Cambridge, Massachusetts
Ernest Dahman	Senior	D	1915-10-02	Ithaca, New York
Oliver Gildersleeve		F	1917-01-22	Portland, Connecticut
Glen Guthrie	Senior	C		Ithaca, New York
Hays		LW		Ithaca, New York
Ray McElwee	Sophomore	D		Ithaca, New York
Robert Wiggans		D	1918-04-17	Ithaca, New York

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Standings

1937–38 Eastern Collegiate ice hockey standings v t e
	Intercollegiate							Overall
	GP	W	L	T	Pct.	GF	GA	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA
Army	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	10	5	4	1	29	21
Boston College	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	15	9	6	0	75	56
Boston University	15	9	4	2	.667	88	61	15	9	4	2	88	61
Bowdoin	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	12	6	6	0	–	–
Brown	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	14	5	9	0	–	–
Clarkson	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	15	13	1	1	105	34
Colgate	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	7	3	4	0	–	–
Columbia	2	0	2	0	.000	1	9	11	2	8	1	17	42
Cornell	4	0	4	0	.000	4	17	4	0	4	0	4	17
Dartmouth	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	22	18	4	0	105	78
Hamilton	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	9	5	4	0	–	–
Harvard	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	14	6	7	1	–	–
Lafayette	1	0	1	0	.000	0	5	2	1	1	0	5	7
Massachusetts State	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	7	2	4	1	–	–
Middlebury	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	11	2	7	2	–	–
MIT	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	12	6	6	0	–	–
New Hampshire	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	10	6	3	1	69	41
Northeastern	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	13	3	9	1	–	–
Princeton	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	18	5	12	1	–	–
Rensselaer	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	3	0	3	0	–	–
Union	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	4	0	3	1	–	–
Williams	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	14	10	3	1	–	–
Yale	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	18	7	10	1	–	–

Schedule and results

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Record
Regular Season
January 19	vs. Colgate*	Beebe Lake • Ithaca, New York	L 1–2	0–1–0
January 22	at Clarkson*	Ives Park • Potsdam, New York	L 0–10	0–2–0
February 22	at Hamilton*	Russell Sage Rink • Clinton, New York	L 2–3 ^OT	0–3–0
February 26	at Army*	Smith Rink • West Point, New York	L 1–2	0–4–0
*Non-conference game.

References

^ "Hockey Squads Practice". Cornell Daily Sun. January 4, 1938. Retrieved July 10, 2021.
^ "Hockey Squads Drills for Maroon Tilt". Cornell Daily Sun. January 15, 1938. Retrieved July 10, 2021.
^ "Colgate Pucksters Win on Beebe". Cornell Daily Sun. January 20, 1938. Retrieved July 10, 2021.
^ "Hockey Game Postponed". Cornell Daily Sun. February 10, 1938. Retrieved July 10, 2021.
^ "Hockey Game Postponed". Cornell Daily Sun. February 16, 1938. Retrieved July 10, 2021.
^ "1937-1938 Roster". Elite Prospects. Retrieved December 30, 2019.