Penn was to open its season in mid-December against the Quaker City Hockey Club, an organization captained by program founder George Orton, but the school's athletic department refused to allow the team to play.

With this official approval also came the insistence that Penn join the Intercollegiate Hockey Association and play against the likes of Yale and Brown.

[2] While those plans were being ironed out the Philadelphia Hockey League, of which Penn was still a member, replaced Haverford College with Central High School and arranged inter-squad games between each of the four clubs.

[4] The game had been arranged earlier but as many Quaker players had returned home for the holidays the team needed to use graduates as replacements.

The Quakers played well through several games but after the managers of the West Park Ice Palace failed to carry through on an agreement for a benefit night the school refused to use the rink for the remainder of the season.