In the winter of 1921, the athletic department at Michigan Agricultural College decided to add ice hockey to the list of minor varsity sport for the school.
[1] Due to the late announcement, the team scrambled to arrange a schedule with a decent number of games.
more than half a dozen contests were initially put on the slate, however, due to poor weather conditions the team was only able to play 4 matches on the year.
While a temporary rink was built just above the dam on the Red Cedar River, Chester Brewer made a call for students to try out for the team and the roster was mostly populated by men from the upper peninsula and Canada.
Neither a coach nor captain was elected for the season and the team had to rely on their own wits and experience in their abbreviated schedule.