For Brown's first ice hockey season all games were played on the road.

Often cited as the "first game of intercollegiate ice hockey played in the United States" is the contest against Harvard on January 19, 1898 at Franklin Park, Boston.

[1] They commandeered a patch of a frozen pond in Franklin Park, asked pleasure skaters to move aside, set up some poles to mark the goals, and played the game of ice hockey they had learned in Canada.

[1] The details and outcome of the game were recorded in the following day's Boston Herald: Brown 6, Harvard 0.

[1] Brown University did not formally adopt the Bear as its mascot until the fall of 1905.