The Rensselaer Holiday Tournament was a college ice hockey tournament hosted by the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. The tournament was held annually for a duration of sixty years, from 1951 to 2010 at the Houston Field House. It was, at various times, known as the Rensselaer Invitational, RPI Invitational, RPI Invitational Christmas Tournament, RPI Christmas Tournament, Rensselaer/Midland Bank Holiday Tournament, Rensselaer/HSBC Holiday Tournament and Rensselaer/Bank of America Holiday Tournament. It was the oldest college hockey tournament in the United States, older than the Beanpot by a year. Since the tournament has not been renewed since the 2010-2011 season, The Beanpot is now the oldest.
In the first edition, eight teams played in a knockout bracket. From 1952 until 1980, four teams played a round-robin. Beginning in 1981, four teams were seeded and played a bracket format with a consolation game. Rensselaer won the championship for the first time in nearly a decade in what turned out to be the tournament's final year.
Results Year Champion Runner-up Third place Fourth place Fifth place Sixth place Seventh place Eighth place 1951 Brown St. Patrick's RPI Loyola Harvard Dartmouth Williams MIT
Year Champion Runner-up Third place Fourth place 1952 Princeton RPI St. Patrick's Yale 1953 St. Francis Xavier RPI Brown Princeton 1954 Toronto RPI St. Francis Xavier Yale 1955 Minnesota RPI Princeton Loyola 1956 Michigan Tech McGill RPI Laval 1957 RPI Brown Yale New Brunswick 1958 Michigan State RPI Brown Princeton 1959 North Dakota Montreal RPI Yale 1960 RPI Harvard New Brunswick Princeton 1961 Michigan RPI McGill Yale 1962 Minnesota McMaster RPI Providence 1963 RPI Cornell Loyola Yale 1964 Minnesota–Duluth McGill RPI Colgate 1965 Western Ontario Bowdoin RPI Middlebury 1966 Michigan RPI Colgate New Brunswick 1967 McMaster Michigan Tech RPI Yale 1968 Waterloo RPI Army Ohio 1969 Providence RPI Montreal Bowling Green 1970 Wisconsin RPI Western Ontario Northeastern 1971 Clarkson RPI Ohio New Brunswick 1972 Minnesota–Duluth RPI Providence Carleton 1973 Boston University RPI Dartmouth Ohio State 1974 Northeastern Bowling Green RPI Sir George Williams 1975 Providence RPI Princeton Northeastern 1976 RPI Clarkson Yale Penn 1977 RPI Ohio State St. Mary's McGill 1978 St. Lawrence RPI Princeton Air Force 1979 Western Michigan Northeastern Western Ontario RPI 1980 Maine RPI Vasby Holy Cross 1981 St. Lawrence Brown North Dakota RPI 1982 RPI UMass Lowell Bowling Green Brown 1983 RPI UMass Lowell Northern Arizona Yale 1984 RPI Toronto Miami (OH) Ferris State 1985 RPI Lake Superior State RIT Alaska–Anchorage 1986 Ferris State Alaska–Fairbanks Merrimack RPI 1987 RPI McGill Holy Cross U.S. International 1988 Providence RPI Air Force Notre Dame 1989 RPI Merrimack Union Brown 1990 RPI Western Ontario Union Alaska–Fairbanks 1991 St. Lawrence RPI Northeastern Union 1992 Providence RPI Clarkson UMass Lowell 1993 RPI UMass Lowell Army Mount Allison 1994 Maine RPI Merrimack Miami (OH) 1995 Clarkson Illinois–Chicago Providence RPI 1996 RPI Brown UMass Bowling Green 1997 Lake Superior RPI Yale Army 1998 RPI Minnesota–Duluth Merrimack Union 1999 Providence RPI Bowling Green Union 2000 St. Lawrence Providence RPI Notre Dame 2001 RPI UMass Niagara Quinnipiac 2002 Merrimack Wayne State Princeton RPI 2003 Northeastern Mercyhurst Colgate RPI 2004 Air Force RPI Robert Morris Sacred Heart 2005 Nebraska–Omaha Holy Cross RPI Providence 2006 Niagara Colgate RPI Ohio State 2007 Notre Dame RPI Alabama–Huntsville American International 2008 Northeastern RPI Mercyhurst Princeton 2009 Union RPI Bentley Lake Superior 2010 RPI Bowling Green Alabama-Huntsville Connecticut
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