1966 CIAU University Cup

1966 CIAU University Cup

Tournament details
Venue(s)	Sudbury, Ontario
Dates	March 3–5
Teams	5
Final positions
Champions	Toronto Varsity Blues (1st title)
Runner-up	Alberta Golden Bears
Third place	St. Francis Xavier X-Men
Fourth place	Laurentian Voyageurs
Tournament statistics
Games played	5
MVP	Tom Purser (St. Francis Xavier)

The 1966 CIAU Men's University Cup Hockey Tournament (4th annual) was held in Sudbury, Ontario. The Laurentian Voyageurs served as tournament hosts.

Road to the Cup

MIAA season

Seed	School	Standings	Seed	School	Standings
1	St. Francis Xavier	14–0–0	5	St. Thomas	5–8–1
2	Saint Dunstan's	10–4–0	6	Acadia	3–10–1
3	New Brunswick	9–4–1	7	Dalhousie	3–11–0
4	Mount Allison	9–5–0	8	Moncton	1–12–1

Note: No playoffs.

OIAA season

Seed	School	Standings	Seed	School	Standings
1	Laurentian	9–0–1	4	Osgoode Hall	4–6–0
2	Waterloo Lutheran	6–2–2	5	Ryerson	3–6–0
3	York	5–4–1	6	Windsor	1–9–0

no playoffs

OSLC playoffs

	Semifinals					Championship
	1	Sir George Williams	5
	4	Royal Military College	4
						1	Sir George Williams	5
						2	Loyola	4
	2	Loyola	7
	3	Ottawa	6

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

QOAA season

Seed	School	Standings	Seed	School	Standings
1	Toronto	13–2–1	T–5	Queen's	6–10–0
2	Western Ontario	12–2–2	7	Montreal	5–11–0
3	Waterloo	11–3–2	8	McGill	4–11–1
4	Laval	9–6–1	9	Guelph	2–13–1
T–5	McMaster	6–10–0

no playoff

WCIAA season

Seed	School	Standings
1	Alberta	11–1–0
2	Manitoba	8–4–0
3	Saskatchewan	5–7–0
4	Calgary	0–12–0

No playoff

University Cup

The CIAU invited the champions of five conferences to play for the championship. With the field increasing to five teams, the entrants now arranged by a new method; the participants would be arranged into two groupings, last year's finalists and non-finalists. The two groups would be sorted independently with the finalists being given the top two seeds and the non-finalists seeds three through five. The top three seeds would then receive byes into the semifinal round with the top overall seed awaiting the winner of the lone quarterfinal match.

Seed	Team	Qualification	Record	Appearance	Last
1	St. Francis Xavier X-Men	MIAA Champion	14–0–0	2nd	1963
2	Alberta Golden Bears	WCIAA Champion	11–1–0	2nd	1964
3	Laurentian Voyageurs	OIAA Champion	9–0–1	2nd	1965
4	Sir George Williams Georgians	OSLC Champion	16–1–1	3rd	1965
5	Toronto Varsity Blues	QOAA Champion	13–2–1	1st	Never

Bracket

	Quarterfinal March 3					Semifinals March 4					Championship March 5
						1	St. Francis Xavier	4
						5	Toronto	6
	4	Sir George Williams	7
	5	Toronto	9
											5	Toronto	8
											2	Alberta	1
						2	Alberta	10			Third Place
						3	Laurentian	4
											1	St. Francis Xavier	5
											3	Laurentian	3

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)^[1]

Championship final

March 5, 1966

#3 Alberta Golden Bears

1–8

#5 Toronto Varsity Blues

Sudbury, Ontario

References

1. "History". U Sports. Retrieved March 13, 2018.