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Seasons on Ice – The Birth of Wisconsin Badgers Hockey is a meticulously researched and

chronologically arranged narrative that depicts the history of ice hockey at the University of Wisconsin – Madison during the initial era from the 1890s – 1935. This is a 325 page paperback book that came out in January 2024.

This story tracks the game of hockey from when it

first migrated from Canada to the United States, and eventually onto the UW campus. This book is a never before told story about the Wisconsin Badgers men’s hockey program from its infancy in the late 1800s as a club sport, when it was declared a varsity sport in 1922, through the mid-1930s. The book ends when the men’s varsity ice hockey program was cancelled by the University in 1935.

The core mission of Seasons on Ice is to tell

the previously untold story of the men and the teams that worked so hard to establish a hockey program at the UW-Madison. It shares with readers how the ice hockey program was built from the ice up. It highlights the coaches and players who fought routinely to ensure games could be played.

Ice hockey was ultimately cancelled at the University, but these pioneering efforts were not lost. In fact, it was the architecture that would lead to six national hockey championships for the University of Wisconsin beginning in the 1970s. Seasons on Ice – The Birth of Wisconsin Badgers Hockey shares this important hockey story and the individuals that made a college hockey dynasty at the UW possible.