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Fun facts about the RMC-West Point hockey series
Posted: January 24th, 2014 @ 10:00pm
West Point-RMC
Royal Military College Paladins will host the 78th hockey game with the U.S. Military Academy Saturday, 7 p.m., at the Rogers K-Rock Centre. All seats reserved; tickets are $9.50, $11.50 and $15.50.
Some facts about the game:
* Overall Army leads the series 41-29-7; at West Point the Knights hold a 27-12-1 advantage, in Kingston RMC leads 17-14-1.
* Concept was broached by Gen. Douglas MacArthur, then superintendent at West Point, in 1921; the first game was played there in 1923.
* Original Challenge Trophy was presented by RMC.
* The first game was played on an outdoor rink and RMC won 3-0; the Redmen won all but one of the first 15 games through 1938 (there was no game in 1926); the other ended in a tie.
* Army got its first win in 1939, 3-2, in Kingston.
* Hockey was played at the U.S. Military Academy since 1904 but the 1924 game in Kingston was Army's first game away from West Point; the Knights continued to play home games only, except for every other year in Kingston, until 1941.
* No penalties were called in the series until 1954; the first penalty was assessed to Army goaltender Dirk Leuders; Leuders later served in Germany and Vietnam and retired as a colonel in 1984.
* When Army defeats RMC, players receive a gold leaf to affix to their varsity A letter (similar to the gold star athletes get for beating Navy and the silver star they get for defeating Air Force).
* Army won 15 of 20 games in the 1950s and '60s; the Knights were 8-0-2 in the 1990s.
* RMC's last good run of victories was four of five games, 1980-84; since then the Redmen - now Paladins - are 3-18-3 (though 2-1-1 in the last four games in Kingston).
* Army's lineup this year includes junior Zac Zaremba of Parma, Ohio; Zaremba played his junior hockey for the Brockville Braves, then coached by Todd Gill, who now coaches the Kingston Frontenacs.
- Source: Army hockey media guide
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