The Codfish Bowl is an annual Division III college ice hockey mid-season tournament.
It is the oldest tournament operating at the D-III level and the second oldest extant tournament for any level of play.
[1] In 1965 Boston State head coach Eddie Barry, looking for a lower-division answer to the Beanpot, founded the tournament with the help of athletic director Gus Sullivan.
The series was used as a showcase for the smaller schools in college hockey and was absorbed by the program at Massachusetts–Boston when the two schools merged in 1982.
After the merger, UMB jumped up to D-II, allowing the tournament to remain at that level.