Atlantic University Sport

Atlantic University Sport is a conference in Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS), now known as U Sports. The AUS men's hockey league is a 7-team top tier scholastic league operating in the provinces of New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, and (formerly) Newfoundland. The other conferences in U Sports are the Canada West Universities Athletic Association (CWUAA) and Ontario University Athletics (OUA).

• AUS Hockey Site
• AUS Wikipedia
• List of AUS Seasons
• Atlantic Canadian Hockey History @Angelfire
• Atlantic Colleges Athletic Association @Angelfire
• Atlantic University Sport @Angelfire

Previous Conferences

Pre-World War I

• 1905-06: Hewson Cup
• 1908-09: Sumner Cup and Intercollegiate Hockey League

Post-World War I

• 1919: Maritime Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA)
• 1969: Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association (AIAA)
• 1974: Atlantic Universities Athletic Association (AUAA)
• 1999: Atlantic University Sport (AUS)

Note - The foregoing were name changes, none involved teams switching conferences. Following the 1972-73 seasons, the AIAA merged with the AWIAA which had governed women's sports.

LINK:

• History of CIS
• U Sports Link

Participating Universities

Men's

Team	Centre	Arena
Acadia Axemen	Wolfville, Nova Scotia	Acadia Arena
Dalhousie Tigers	Halifax, Nova Scotia	Halifax Forum
Moncton Aigles Bleus	Moncton, New Brunswick	Jean-Louis Lévesque Arena
New Brunswick Varsity Reds	Fredericton, New Brunswick	Aitken Centre
St. Francis Xavier X-Men	Antigonish, Nova Scotia	Charles V. Keating Millennium Centre
Saint Mary's Huskies	Halifax, Nova Scotia	Halifax Forum
UPEI Panthers	Charlottetown, PEI	MacLaughlin Arena

Women's

The women's conference started with the 1997-98 season.  For the 1997-98, 1998-99, and 1999-00 seasons the teams played an exhibition schedule that ended with a conference tournament held among the member schools.

Team	Centre	Arena
Dalhousie Tigers	Halifax, Nova Scotia	Halifax Forum
Moncton Aigles Bleus	Moncton, New Brunswick	Jean-Louis Lévesque Arena
Mount Allison Mounties	Sackville, New Brunswick	Tantramar Veterans Memorial Civic Centre
St. Francis Xavier X-Women	Antigonish, Nova Scotia	Charles V. Keating Millennium Centre
Saint Mary's Huskies	Halifax, Nova Scotia	St. Mary's Alumni Arena
St. Thomas Tommies	Fredericton, New Brunswick	Grant-Harvey Centre
UPEI Panthers	Charlottetown, PEI	MacLaughlin Arena

Formerly Participating Universities

• St. Thomas Tommies (men's team ceased play after 2015-16 season)
• Cape Breton Capers (program ended after 1994-95 season)
• MUN Beothuks (program ended after 1981-82 season)
• Mount Allison Mounties (Men's program ended after 1997-98 season)
• New Brunswick Varsity Reds (women's team stopped playing after 2007-08 season)

Formerly Participating Universities - no longer AUS members

• Nova Scotia Technical College - now part of Dalhousie
• Prince of Wales College - now part of UPEI
• St. Dunstan's Saints - now part of UPEI
• Collège Saint-Joseph aka St. Joseph's University - now part of Moncton
• University of King's College Blue Devils

Other Links

• Boyle Trophy - St. John's senior championship
• Herder Memorial Trophy - Newfoundland senior championship
• Wellner Trophy - PEI competition

Table of Seasons and Champions

Click on year to visit page for that season.

Click on team to visit team page.

Click on 1st column of U-Cup notes to visit U-Cup page for that season.

MIAA Seasons: 1919-20 to 1967-68

Year	Champion	U-Cup Notes	Other Qualifiers	U-Cup Notes
1920	St. FX	-	-	-
1921	Dalhousie	-	-	-
1922	Dalhousie	-	-	-
1923	Dalhousie	-	-	-
1924	St. FX	-	-	-
1925	UNB	-	-	-
1926	St. FX	-	-	-
1927	St. FX	-	-	-
1928	St. FX	-	-	-
1929	St. FX	-	-	-
1930	Saint Mary's	-	-	-
1931	Mount Allison	-	-	-
1932	Mount Allison	-	-	-
1933	Mount Allison	-	-	-
1934	New Brunswick	-	-	-
1935	Mount Allison	-	-	-
1936	St. FX	-	-	-
1937	St. FX	-	-	-
1938	Mount Allison	-	-	-
1939	Mount Allison	-	-	-
1940	Acadia	-	-	-
1941	St. FX	-	-	-
1942	Saint Mary's	-	-	-
1943	St. FX	-	-	-
1944	St. FX	-	-	-
1945	no competition	-	-	-
1946	St. FX	-	-	-
1947	St. Dunstan's	-	-	-
1948	Acadia	-	-	-
1949	Acadia	-	-	-
1950	St. FX	-	-	-
1951	St. FX	-	-	-
1952	St. FX	-	-	-
1953	not awarded	-	-	-
1954	St. FX	-	-	-
1955	St. FX	-	-	-
1956	St. FX	-	-	-
1957	St. FX	-	-	-
1958	St. FX	-	-	-
1959	St. FX	-	-	-
1960	New Brunswick	-	-	-
1961	St. Thomas	-	-	-
1962	New Brunswick	-	-	-
1963	St. FX	1-1 bronze	none
1964	New Brunswick	1-1 bronze	none
1965	St. Dunstan's	1-1 silver	none
1966	St. FX	1-1 bronze	none
1967	St. FX	2-1 bronze	none
1968	St. FX	0-2 5th	none

NOTES:

• There was no University Cup until 1963.
• Before the University Cup, university teams competed for the Allan Cup.
• In this 1963-68 era only the conference champion qualified for the University Cup. There were no wild-card nor host berths awarded.

AIAA Seasons: 1968-69 to 1972-73

Year	Champion	U-Cup Notes	Other Qualifiers	U-Cup Notes
1969	Saint Mary's	0-2 4th	none
1970	Saint Mary's	2-1 silver	none
1971	Saint Mary's	1-1 silver	none
1972	Saint Mary's	1-1 silver	none
1973	Saint Mary's	2-1 silver	none

NOTES:

• In this era only the conference champion qualified for the University Cup. There were no wild-card nor host berths awarded.

AUAA Seasons: 1973-74 to 1997-98

Year	Champion	U-Cup Notes	Other Qualifiers	U-Cup Notes
1974	Saint Mary's	1-2 lost semi	none
1975	Saint Mary's	1-2 lost semi	none
1976	St. FX	1-1 regional	Moncton (2nd)	0-1 regional
1977	Saint Mary's	2-3 lost semi	none
1978	St. FX	1-1 pool 2nd	none
1979	Dalhousie	1-1-1 silver	none
1980	Moncton	1-1 pool 2nd	none
1981	Moncton	3-0 gold	none
1982	Moncton	3-0 gold	none
1983	Moncton	0-1-1 pool 3rd	none
1984	New Brunswick	0-2 regional	none
1985	UPEI	0-2 regional	none
1986	Moncton	2-1 lost semi	none
1987	UPEI	1-1 pool 2nd	none
1988	UPEI	0-1 lost semi	none
1989	Moncton	0-1 lost semi	none
1990	Moncton	2-0 gold	none
1991	UPEI	0-1 lost semi	none
1992	Acadia	1-1 silver	none
1993	Acadia	2-0 gold	none
1994	Acadia	0-1 lost semi	none
1995	Moncton	2-0 gold	none
1996	Acadia	2-0 gold	none
1997	New Brunswick	1-1 silver	none
1998	New Brunswick	3-0 gold	Acadia (wc)	2-1 silver

AUS Seasons: 1998-99 to present

Year	Champion	U-Cup Notes	Other Qualifiers	U-Cup Notes
1999	Moncton	2-1 silver	none
2000	New Brunswick	2-1 silver	none
2001	St. Thomas	0-2 pool 3rd	St. FX (wc)	2-1 silver
2002	Saint Mary's	1-1 pool 2nd	none
2003	New Brunswick	1-2 4th	St. FX (sub)	2-1 silver
2004	St. FX	3-0 gold	New Bruns. (host)	2-1 silver
			Dalhousie (wc)	2-1 bronze
2005	Moncton	1-1 pool 2nd	none
2006	Acadia	0-2 pool 3rd	none
2007	Moncton	2-1 silver	UNB (host)	3-0 gold
			St. FX (wc)	0-2 pool 3rd
2008	New Brunswick	2-1 silver	Moncton (host)	1-1 pool 2nd
2009	Saint Mary's	1-1 pool 3rd	UNB	3-0 gold
2010	Saint Mary's	3-0 gold	none
2011	New Brunswick	3-0 gold	St. FX (sub)	1-1 pool 2nd
2012	New Brunswick	1-1 pool 2nd	Moncton (sub)	1-1 pool 2nd
2013	New Brunswick	3-0 gold	Saint Mary's (wc)	2-1 silver
2014	Acadia	0-2 pool 3rd	none
2015	New Brunswick	2-1 silver	Acadia (2nd)	0-1 quarter
			St. FX (host)	0-1 quarter
2016	St. FX	2-1 silver	UNB (2nd)	3-0 gold
			(host)	2-1 bronze
2017	St. FX	1-2 4th	UNB (2nd)	3-0 gold
			Acadia (sub)	2-1 bronze
2018	New Brunswick	2-1 bronze	St. FX (2nd)	2-1 silver
			Acadia (3rd)	0-1 quarters
2019	New Brunswick	3-0 gold	St. FX	2-1 bronze
2020	New Brunswick	cancelled	Acadia (2nd)	cancelled
			Saint Mary's (sub)	1-0
2021	Season cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
2022	New Brunswick	0-1	St. Francis Xavier X-Men	Bronze
2021-22	New Brunswick	4th	Acadia Axemen (host)	0-1
2023	New Brunswick		Saint Mary's
			UPEI Panthers (host)
2023-24	New Brunswick		Moncton

NOTES:

• (wc) indicates team qualified as national rotating wild-card team
• (host) indicates team qualified as University Cup hosts
• (sub) indicates team qualified as sub for University Cup hosts and/or AUS champion
• (2nd) indicates team qualified as 2nd place team
• from 1987 onwards there were no preliminary series nor qualifying tournaments played for University Cup qualification
• from 2015 onwards the 2nd place team qualifies in the 8 team University Cup format
• the conference had 3 University Cup reps on five (5) occasions; 2004, 2007, 2015, 2016, and 2017
• the 2020 University Cup was cancelled before UNB and Acadia could play their first games and before SMU could play their semi-final game

Alternative Logos

Also see

National links:

• U Sports
• List of University Cup Playoffs (from 1962-63 to present)
• 1967 Canada Winter Games Hockey Tournament
• Canadian University Teams v National Teams

Atlantic links:

• Atlantic University Sport
• List of AUS Seasons (from 1919-20 to present)
• Atlantic History - AUS page

Atlantic Senior links:

• List of Eastern Canada Allan Cup Playoffs
• Maritimes Senior Playoffs
• Maritimes Senior Hockey Champions
• Antigonish-Pictou-Colchester Senior Hockey League - (APC)
• List of APC Seasons
• Central Section
• Valley Senior Hockey League - (VSHL)
• List of VSHL Seasons
• Halifax City League – with list of seasons
• Boyle Trophy – formerly St. John's senior champions
• Atlantic Canadian Hockey History
• VSHL page

Western links:

• Canada West Universities Athletic Association
• Great Plains Athletic Conference
• List of CWUAA Seasons
• List of GPAC Seasons
• List of WIAA Seasons
• List of WCIAU Seasons

Ontario-Quebec links:

• Ontario University Athletics
• RSEQ (formerly Quebec Student Sports Federation)
• Quebec-Ontario Athletic Association
• Ontario Intercollegiate Athletic Association
• Ottawa St Lawrence Conference
• List of OUA Seasons
• List of OUAA Seasons
• List of QUAA Seasons
• List of OSLC Seasons
• List of QOAA Seasons
• List of OIAA Seasons
• List of CIAU Central Seasons
• List of Intermediate Intercollegiate Seasons (1902-03 to 1938-39)
• Ontario-Quebec Intermediate Intercollegiate series (1902-03 to 1934-35)
• Senior Intercollegiate League (1945-46)
• International Intercollegiate League (from 1936-37 to 1939-40)
• West Point Weekend

College links:

• Canadian Colleges Athletic Association
• Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference
• British Columbia Intercollegiate Hockey League
• Manitoba Colleges Athletic Conference
• Ontario Colleges Athletic Association
• Atlantic Collegiate Athletic Association