OIAA, MCHL, and COHL
It seems that one of my annual summer projects is searching for new sources of stats/data/information on past years of CIS/US hockey.
First topic: the Ontario Intercollegiate Athletic Association (OIAA). The best source is Wikia:
http://icehockey.wikia.com/wiki/Ontario_Intercollegiate_Athletic_Association
In brief: Ontario and Quebec had three separate conferences through 1970-71, after which they realigned along provincial lines. The conferences were:
1. CIAU (Central) which became the Quebec-Ontario Athletic Association (QOAA) in either 1953 or 1955. (Names were not branded then like they are now. Different sources give different dates. The QOAA is also sometimes called the Ontario-Quebec Athletic Association.)
2. Ottawa-St. Lawrence Conference (OSLC), sometimes also called Ottawa-St. Lawrence Athletic Association.
3. OIAA.
From 1971-72 onwards the Quebec teams went to the Quebec Universities Athletic Association (QUAA) and the Ontario teams went to the Ontario Universities Athletic Association (OUAA), except for RMC who spent some time in each.
The OIAA was a 2nd tier league and included the following:
Brock Badgers
Hamilton Institute of Technology (now part of Mohawk College)
Osgoode Hall Legalites (now part of York)
Laurentian Voyageurs
Waterloo Lutheran Golden Hawks (now renamed Laurier)
Ryerson Rams
Trent Excalibur
Western Ontario Institute of Technology (now part of St. Clair College)
Windsor Lancers
York Yeomen
The
Ryerson Alumni Site claims that they won OIAA titles in 1959 and 1963. The
OIAA Wikia Page has links to season standings for 1964-65 through 1970-71.
The
Ryerson Wikia Page also links to claims at the
Ryerson Alumni Site wherein they claim titles in the Minor College Hockey League (MCHL or MCL) in 1951-52 and the intermediate Central Ontario Hockey League (COHA or COHL) four times between 1953 and 1957. There are no Wikia Links for those seasons.
So anybody have any sources for more information on the OIAA, MCHL, or COHL?
