Chippy Gaw was coming off a successful season with Dartmouth and the Princeton faithful were hoping he could turn around a program that had flagged recently.

[2] The call for candidates pulled in a bumper harvest of 80 students for the first practice, however, the team encountered an unforeseen problem early in the season.

The school asked the student body to try and conserve as much water as possible so that the ice could be formed, believing that a concerted effort would allow the rink to be usable within 3 or 4 days.

Princeton was hoping to have this completed bY December 16, the day that the rink was set to be dedicated in honor of Hobey Baker.

[3] In the meantime, plans to build a cooling plant that would recycle water through the pipes was already underway but it could not be finished until at least the end of the month.

[4] Hoping that the early-season plans would come to fruition, the team had its first game tentatively set for December 16 with potentially a few more during the winter break.

While they opened the scoring and held the lead for much of the game, an injury to Wall allowed the Redmen to claw their way back and eke out a 1-goal victory.

The team's play was loose and ragged in the early portion of the match, allowing St. Nicholas to build a 2-goal lead after the first period.

Coach Gaw moved Van Gerbig to Right Wing at the start of the second and the adjustment paid dividends with the team's captain netting 2 goals in the middle frame.

Van Gerbig was again the star for Princeton, scoring the team's second and third goals before putting up a defensive wall that made sure one would stand as the game-winner.

Stout had his best game of the year, leading the pack with 5 goals and the team didn't even appear to miss Van Gerbig who was absent due to a minor injury.

In order to curtail Princeton's offensive advantage, Yale essentially played with three defenseman during the game as one of the forwards would stay back to stop any counterattack from the Tigers.

Yale tied the game once more at the end of the period and then played total defense for the remainder of the match in order to prevent another Princeton goal.

[18] With the team at 9–1 and possessing wins over their conference rivals, Princeton was the class of college hockey and was in position for the thirst championship since 1914.

Yale continued their defensive style from earlier and succeeded in stopping the Princeton offense cold; the Tigers were unable to get anything into the Bulldog cage.

Yale's winning goal was the first loss for Pricneton against a collegiate opponent but it didn't end their pursuit of a championship as a third and deciding game between the two would be played later.

The Crimson, three-time defending champions, had already suffered three losses and a further defeat to the Tigers would end any chance of their winning a championship.

The defensive style continued to perplex the Tigers, who were only able to get a single goal in the game, but they had a lead by the midway point of the match.

After the game had been tied, Yale recorded 2 goals in 23 seconds to take the lead and Princeton was unable to answer.

Despite desperate attempts by Davis and Van Gerbig, Princeton could not break through the Eli defense and ended their best season in almost a decade with a loss.