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Princeton's Finest PRINCETON’S FINEST A history of Princeton Day School Ice Hockey Princeton Day Schoo m alt* Princeton 'C a y ScEool Closing notes on the Brooks Herr senior project which was to write a book covering the history of ice hockey at Princeton Day School and its founding school, the Princeton country Day School. Brooks’ book entitled Princeton’s Finest. A History of Princeton Day School Ice Hockey.is the product of of his thorough research gleaned from scouring the school archives as well as local news papers, and conducting numerous interviews with players, former coaches, and local ice hockey junkies. He amassed a large amount of material and yet was able to come up with a coherent hockey picture that covers eighty years, Respectfully submitted on this 2nd day of June, 2010, Harry Rulon-Miller * Brooks chose not to cover the infancy period of hockey (1924 - 29) when the Princeton Junior School for Boys Started using the Baker rink in the mid 1920s. lit became the Princeton Country Day School in 1930 Acknowledgments I would like to take this time to thank a few people. Harry Rulon-Miller as my project advisor and mentor was a great help. I would like to thank the Alumni Office for putting me in contact with dozens of Alumni, and I would like to thank all of the people who took time out of the bus schedules to answer my questions about PDS ice-hockey. 1930 would not be a good year and January of 1930 was not a good month. The nation had just witnessed the collapse of the stock market, and unemployment doubled from 1928. It should then come as no surprise that few people beyond the shores of Lake Carnegie were aware of a hockey game played between two junior schools at Baker Rink one cold January day. The Princeton Junior School would top its Morristown counterpart by a narrow margin of 2-1. That goal would be one of two goals that PJS let up on the way to a 3-1 record, which included victories over Morristown Junior School and the Lance School. Morristown would hand the blue and white its only loss of the season. Coach Allen F. Dill’s 1930-31 team set what would become the standard of play for Princeton Country Day School for next thirty-five years. This team, captained by John Scoon, went undefeated with a record of 7-0-0. The Panthers of the 1930’s were a force to be reckoned with, Princeton Country Day went 42-22-6 that decade regularly beating arch nemesis The Lawrenceville School. The 1930-31 PCD team. As the New Deal kicked in and the decade turned, the only thing that could stop the sextets from Broadmead was the Second World War. From 1944 through 1947, Princeton Country Day School didn’t field a team because their home rink, Baker Rink, was being used as an Army barracks for the many members of the Princeton student body enlisted in the Army ROTC program. Despite only playing six seasons, PCD was still remarkably dominant during the 1940’s, going 27-8-4 with only one losing season in 1948, the first year they were able to field a team after the war. 1948 was also the first year of PCD’s last coaching tandem, Lester “Bud” Tibbals and Dick Vaughn. Mr. Tibbals joined the PCD faculty in 1948, and assumed coaching duties that same year. Coach Vaughn, the head coach at Princeton University had started to help out the Program in 1942, the penultimate year PCD had a hockey team before the war. Vaughn, who would soon be dubbed “the Wiley Mentor,” was the driving force behind teaching the lower schoolers how to skate. The 1940’s ended on a high note with the team going undefeated, with a record of 6-0-0. The 1950’s started just as the 1940’s had ended, with an undefeated season, this time going 6-0-1. In the last decade PCD had produced 21 prep school captains and the rosters of Ivy League schools were littered with boys of the blue and white. During the 1948-49 season the Princeton University team had six former PCD boys. The 1950’s was without a doubt a dominant decade, with the sextets from Broadmead going an astounding 60-12-5 with undefeated seasons in 1950/51, ’57, and ’58. This decade also produced some of the generation’s finest amateur hockey players. Harry Rulon-Miller class of 1951, , John Cook ’56, Stephen Cook ’59, and Howard McMorris ’59 all played for the Tigers of Princeton, with great success. Three of them (Rulon-Miller, J. Cook and McMorris) won Princeton’s coveted Blackwell Trophy, while John and Stephen took turns tearing up the Princeton record book. To this day John Cook holds the record for most goals in a career at Princeton with 67. This success caused many people (including the author) to scratch their heads and wonder how a school with an enrolment of under 100 students from kindergarten to ninth grade, could be so dominant at every level of the amateur game. The answer as Howard McMorris said in an interview given this February was simple, “Ice.” The boys at Princeton Country Day had nearly an unlimited supply of it. Every day during the winter the entire student body was bused over to Baker Rink where they skated for upwards of two hours and when there wasn’t ice at Baker the boys would ride their bikes to one of the many ponds in the Princeton area. This abundance of ice was such a big factor because all of their opponents, including the New England boarding schools, played on outdoor rinks. Having so much ice guaranteed that the PCD player was a significantly better skater than his opponent because he had so much more time to practice. This superior skating ability prevailed in PCD’s last half decade. From 1960 to 1965 the blue and white went an impressive 45-3-3, including a 46 game unbeaten streak to end the PCD hockey program. PCD played its last game early in 1965, a come from behind victory over The Wissahicken Skating Club. The blue and white trailed for the first time all season, but led by Whit Raymond, who had a hat trick, fought back and ended up defeating the Wissahicken Club by a score of 6-2. After that season Princeton Country Day School and Miss Fine’s School, a local all girls school, would merge to form Princeton Day School. After 34 years of ice-hockey, PCD had accumulated an impressive record of 171-44-18 and produced dozens of prep and college players. One of the first things that the newly formed Princeton Day School did before classes began in the fall of 1965 was to build a rink on campus. That winter the first ever PDS team took the ice, led by their captains Sandy Wandelt and Even Donaldson. The team skated to a 6-3-1 record, the school’s fourteenth straight winning season. The Panthers followed up their inaugural season with a 8-3 record in 1967. This season marked the last year of Mr. Tibbals’ storied career at the helm of the boys ice-hockey team. Mr. Tibbals stepped down with a record 123-25-7 over an illustrious nineteen year career. The following season marked the program’s first season as a full varsity team, because for the first time ever there were seniors on the Princeton record book. To this day John Cook holds the record for most goals in a career at Princeton with 67. This success caused many people (including the author) to scratch their heads and wonder how a school with an enrolment of under 100 students from kindergarten to ninth grade, could be so dominant at every level of the amateur game. The answer as Howard McMorris said in an interview given this February was simple, “Ice.” The boys at Princeton Country Day had nearly an unlimited supply of it. Every day during the winter the entire student body was bused over to Baker Rink where they skated for upwards of two hours and when there wasn’t ice at Baker the boys would ride their bikes to one of the many ponds in the Princeton area. This abundance of ice was such a big factor because all of their opponents, including the New England boarding schools, played on outdoor rinks. Having so much ice guaranteed that the PCD player was a significantly better skater than his opponent because he had so much more time to practice. This superior skating ability prevailed in PCD’s last half decade. From 1960 to 1965 the blue and white went an impressive 45-3-3, including a 46 game unbeaten streak to end the PCD hockey program. PCD played its last game early in 1965, a come from behind victory over The Wissahicken Skating Club. The blue and white trailed for the first time all season, but led by Whit Raymond, who had a hat trick, fought back and ended up defeating the Wissahicken Club by a score of 6-2. After that season Princeton Country Day School and Miss Fine’s School, a local all girls school, would merge to form Princeton Day School. After 34 years of ice-hockey, PCD had accumulated an impressive record of 171-44-18 and produced dozens of prep and college players. One of the first things that the newly formed Princeton Day School did before classes began in the fall of 1965 was to build a rink on campus.
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