The North Country Thanksgiving Festival (also called the 'North Country Thanksgiving Invitational') was an annual NCAA men's Division I ice hockey tournament held annually at the Appleton Arena and Walker Arena in upstate New York around Thanksgiving.
Both Clarkson and St. Lawrence served as hosts for the in-season tournament.
[1][2] Unlike most college hockey tournaments, the North Country Festival did not have a championship game.
Instead, each of the four participants would play one another and the team(s) with the best record would be awarded the championship.
The series changed to a more normal bracket format in 1974 but returned to the round-robin arrangement the following year.