The Hobey Baker Legends of College Hockey Award is an annual award presented by the Hobey Baker Memorial Award Committee to honor "one of the all-time great contributors to the game of college hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

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In 1981, the Hobey Baker Memorial Award Committee began to award to annual awards. The Hobey Baker Award

Hobey Baker Award

The Hobey Baker Award is an annual award given to the top National Collegiate Athletic Association men's ice hockey player.It is named for hockey player and World War I veteran Hobey Baker, who played collegiately at Princeton University and learned the game at St...

 is given to the individual selected as the outstanding NCAA

National Collegiate Athletic Association

The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a semi-voluntary association of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States...

 men's ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 player of the current year. The "Legends of College Hockey Award" was established simultaneously to honor a player or coach who has made outstanding historic contributions to the sport. The "Legends of College Hockey Award" has been presented to individuals who have made contributions as a player, coach or administrator.

Award winners

Year	Winner	Position	School
1981	John "Snooks" Kelly John Kelley (ice hockey) John "Snooks" Kelley is a former American ice hockey coach. Kelley was coach of the Boston College Eagles ice hockey team for 36 years. Kelley won the 1949 NCAA ice hockey title and was the first coach to win 500 games in the NCAA...	Coach	Boston College Boston College Boston College is a private Jesuit research university located in the village of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA. The main campus is bisected by the border between the cities of Boston and Newton. It has 9,200 full-time undergraduates and 4,000 graduate students. Its name reflects its early...  1933-1972
1982	Vic Heyliger Vic Heyliger Victor Heyliger was a National Hockey League center and the head coach of the University of Michigan ice hockey team....	Coach	Michigan Michigan Wolverines men's ice hockey The Michigan Wolverines men's ice hockey team is the college ice hockey team that represents the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Earning varsity status in 1922, the program is competing in its 90th season...  1944-1957; Air Force United States Air Force Academy The United States Air Force Academy is an accredited college for the undergraduate education of officer candidates for the United States Air Force. Its campus is located immediately north of Colorado Springs in El Paso County, Colorado, United States...  1966–1974
1983	John Mariucci John Mariucci John Mariucci was an American ice hockey player, administrator and coach. Mariucci was born in Eveleth, Minnesota. He attended the University of Minnesota where he played for both the hockey and football teams. He was named an All-American in hockey in 1940...	Coach	Minnesota Minnesota Golden Gophers The Minnesota Golden Gophers are the college sports team for the University of Minnesota. The university fields both men's and women's teams in basketball, cross country, gymnastics, golf, ice hockey, swimming, tennis, and track and field. Men's-specific sports include baseball, football, and...  1953-1966
1984	Murray Armstrong Murray Armstrong Murray Alexander Armstrong was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre and NCAA hockey coach.-Playing career:...	Coach	Denver 1957-1977
1985	Herb Gallagher	Player, coach, administrator	Northeastern 1952-1976; founder of the Beanpot Hockey Tournament
1986	Amo Bessone Amo Bessone Amo Bessone was a collegiate ice hockey player and head coach.Bessone was born in Sagamore, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod, and raised in Springfield, Massachusetts, where he learned to play hockey....	Coach	Michigan Tech 1949-1951; Michigan St. 1952-1979
1987	Murray Murdoch Murray Murdoch John Murray Murdoch was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach....	Coach	Yale 1938-1965
1988	Fido Purpur	Coach	North Dakota 1949–1956
1989	Jim Fullerton	Coach	Brown Brown University Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...  1955-1970
1990	Al Renfrew Al Renfrew Al Renfrew was a hockey player at the University of Michigan in the late 1940s and a college hockey coach with Michigan Technological University , the University of North Dakota , and the University of Michigan...	Player, coach	Michigan 1946-1949 (player); Michigan Tech Michigan Technological University Michigan Technological University is a public research university located in Houghton, Michigan, United States. Its main campus sits on on a bluff overlooking Portage Lake...  1951-1956; North Dakota University of North Dakota The University of North Dakota is a public university in Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA. Established by the Dakota Territorial Assembly in 1883, six years before the establishment of the state of North Dakota, UND is the oldest and largest university in the state and enrolls over 14,000 students. ...  1956-1957; Michigan 1957-1973
1991	Jack Riley John P. Riley, Jr. John P. Riley is an American former ice hockey player and coach. The hockey coach at West Point for more than 35 years, Riley coached the United States to the gold medal at the 1960 Squaw Valley Olympics. He played for the U.S. Olympic team at the 1948 St...	Coach	Army 1951-1986
1992	John "Connie" Pleban	Coach	U.S. Olympic Team 1952; U.S. National teams 1950, 1961, 1962; Minnesota-Duluth 1955-1959
1993	Bill Cleary	Coach	Harvard 1972-1990
1994	Jack Kelley	Coach, player	Boston University Boston University Boston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. With more than 4,000 faculty members and more than 31,000 students, Boston University is one of the largest private universities in the United States and one of Boston's largest employers...  1950-1952 (player), 1962-1971 (coach)
1995	John Mayasich John Mayasich John Edward Mayasich is a former American ice hockey player. He was a member of the U.S. ice hockey team that won a silver medal at the 1956 Winter Olympics and a gold medal at the 1960 Winter Olympics....	Player	Minnesota 1954-1955; US Olympic Teams 1956, 1960
1996	Len Ceglarski Len Ceglarski Leonard Stanley Ceglarski is a native of East Walpole, Massachusetts. He was an All-American left wing on Boston College's 1949 NCAA championship team, and was captain of the 1950–51 squad. He was also a member of the U.S. Olympic hockey team that won the silver medal at the 1952 Winter Olympic...	Coach	Clarkson 1958-1972; Boston College 1973-1992
1997	Lou Lamoriello Lou Lamoriello Louis "Lou" Lamoriello is the CEO, president, and general manager of the New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League...	Coach	Providence College Providence College Providence College is a private, coeducational, Catholic university located about two miles west of downtown Providence, Rhode Island, United States, the state's capital city. With a 2010–2011 enrollment of 3,850 undergraduate students and 735 graduate students, the College specializes in academic...  1968-1987
1998	Ned Harkness Ned Harkness Nevin D. "Ned" Harkness was a successful NCAA head coach of ice hockey and lacrosse at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Cornell University and of ice hockey at Union College. Harkness was also head coach of the Detroit Red Wings and later was the team's general manager...	Coach	Rensselaer 1950-63; Cornell 1964-70; Union (N.Y.) 1976-1978
1999	John MacInnes John MacInnes John J. MacInnes was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender and NCAA hockey head coach. He was born in Toronto, Ontario.-Playing career:... Glen Sonmor Glen Sonmor Glen Sonmor is a former professional hockey player, scout and coach.-Early life:In high school, Sonmor played for Moose Jaw and was a multi-sport star; playing point guard in basketball, quarterback in football and left wing in hockey, as well as pitching in semi-pro baseball...	Coach Player	Michigan Tech 1957-1982 Ohio State, Minnesota 1966-1971
2000	Bob Johnson	Coach	Colorado College 1964-66; Wisconsin 1967-1982
2001	Bob Peters Bob Peters R. H. "Bob" Peters is a former men's ice hockey coach. He was the head coach of the Bemidji State University ice hockey team from 1967 to 2001. With 744 wins, he ranks fifth all-time in career wins by a men's college ice hockey coach.-Coaching history:...	Coach	North Dakota 1965-1966; Bemidji State 1967-1982, 1984-2001
2002	Sid Watson Sid Watson Sidney John Watson was an American football player and college ice hockey coach. He played halfback in the National Football League for the Pittsburgh Steelers and Washington Redskins. He played college football at Northeastern University. He was also the head hockey coach at Bowdoin College...	Coach	Bowdoin 1960-1983
2003	Lefty Smith	Coach	Notre Dame 1968-1987
2004	Ron Mason Ron Mason Ron Mason is a Canadian former ice hockey player, head coach and university executive. As head coach of various universities, notably including Michigan State University , he became the winningest ice hockey coach in NCAA history with 924 career wins...	Coach	Lake Superior State 1967-1973; Bowling Green 1974-1979; Michigan State 1980-2002
2005	Murray Williamson Murray Williamson Murray Williamson is a retired ice hockey player. Williamson played in the United States Hockey League with the St. Paul Steers and Rochester Mustangs. He would also coach the United States ice hockey team to a silver medal at the 1972 Winter Olympics...	Coach	US Olympic Team 1972
2006	Cooney Weiland Cooney Weiland Ralph "Cooney" Weiland was an NHL forward who played for the Boston Bruins, Ottawa Senators, and Detroit Red Wings....	Coach	Harvard 1951-71
2007	Ed Saugestad Ed Saugestad Edwin J. Saugestad is a former college men's ice hockey coach. From 1958 to 1996, he was the head hockey coach at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minnesota...	Coach	Augsburg 1959-1990, 1992-1996
2008	Eddie Jeremiah Eddie Jeremiah Edward John "Ed" Jeremiah was a professional ice hockey player who played 15 games in the National Hockey League. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, he played for the New York Americans and Boston Bruins....	Coach	Dartmouth 1938-1942, 1946-1963, 1965-67
2009	Don Roberts Don Roberts (ice hockey) Don Roberts is a former college men's ice hockey coach. From 1964 to 1997, he was the head hockey coach at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota. At the time of his retirement in 1996, he was the winningest hockey coach in NCAA Division III history...	Coach	Gustavus Adolphus Gustavus Adolphus College Gustavus Adolphus College is a private liberal arts college affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America located in St. Peter, Minnesota, United States. A coeducational, four-year, residential institution, it was founded in 1862 by Swedish Americans. To this day the school is firmly...  1965-1996
2010	Charlie Holt	Coach	New Hampshire 1968-85