Aside from being the first official conference in the college hockey ranks , the Tri-State League also produced the first postseason conference game ever played when Clarkson and Middlebury tied at the end of the first season and were matched in a tie-breaker to determine the league champion . There would n't be another conference playoff game until the 1960 WCHA Men 's Ice Hockey Tournament . When Rensselaer won the national title in 1954 it became only the second eastern school to do so , and the first to win as part of a conference ( Boston College had won in 1949 as an independent )
1960 WCHA Men 's Ice Hockey Tournament
1960 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
Tri-State League (ice hockey)