Princeton’s 2,054-seat hockey rink is named after its greatest athletic hero, Hobart A.H. Baker from the class of 1914. Baker was a hockey and football star and is considered the first American hockey star by the Hockey Hall of Fame and, since 1980, the Hobey Baker Award is given to the best collegiate hockey player. Baker, who enlisted in the US Army Air Service and served in World War I, died when a plane he was test-piloting crashed, a month after the Great War ended, just hours before his scheduled return back home to Philadelphia
The Hobey Baker Memorial Rink is the only ice skating rink on the Princeton campus. It opened on January 23, 1923 and is the home to a variety of ice sports played by the Princeton University Tigers and intramural teams. It is the second-oldest arena being used for NCAA Division I hockey but is the school that has played in its existing home for the longest.
