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HarvardYear: 1986See School Profile Page

Scott Fusco captured the Ivy League scoring title during his freshman, junior and his Hobey Baker senior season when he produced 24 goals and 44 assists in just 31 games, and reigns as the Crimson’s all-time scoring leader with 240 points. He was a four-time first team All-Ivy, and a three-time All-ECAC selection. Fusco, of Burlington, Massachusetts, was named Ivy League Player of the Year in 1985 and 1986, and was the first player to be named ECAC Player of the Year twice during those same years. He received All-American honors in 1985 and 1986. He took a one year hiatus from the collegiate ranks to play for Team USA with his brother during the 1983-84 season, the 1983 Hobey Baker Award winner Mark Fusco, and to compete in the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. In 1989 he played with future Hobey Baker Award winner Lane MacDonald during the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta. Fusco graduated from Harvard in 1986 with a degree in economics and is the owner of Bedford Sports Center in Massachusetts.

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Hobey Baker was the legendary Princeton (1914) hockey player known as America’s greatest amateur athlete over one hundred years ago. He redefined how the game was played with his coast-to-coast dashes in an era when hockey was contested by seven players and no forward passes. Baker, a member of the U.S. Army’s Air Corp, died testing a repaired aircraft at the end of World War I after he had completed his military service. The Hobey Baker Award criteria includes: displaying outstanding skills in all phases of the game, strength of character on and off the ice, sportsmanship and scholastic achievements.

Player Stats

Type Season Team Name League Goals Assists Points PIM +/-
Current Season1987-1988USAOG4374
Hobey Winning Season1985-1986Harvard Univ.NCAA24446837

1986 Runner Up

Dan Dorion
Western Michigan

Dan Dorion is a retired American ice hockey right winger who played four games with the New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League (NHL) between 1985–86 and 1987–88. Dorion played college hockey for Western Michigan University. Born in Astoria, New York, Dorion starred as a junior with the Austin Mavericks of the USHL. After scoring 52 goals in 50 games for the club he was picked 232nd overall by the Devils in 1982. The gifted pivot then spent three years at the University of Western Michigan and was twice named to the CCHA first all-star team and placed on the NCAA west first and second All-American teams once each. Dorion was also picked to represent the US at the 1985 World Championships. After recording 104 points in 42 games in his senior year, Dorion notched a goal and an assist in three late season games for the Devils in April, 1986. He then spent the bulk of the next three years with the Maine Mariners and Utica Devils of the AHL before opting to go overseas. After playing the 1989-90 season with France’s HC Fiemme, Dorion sat out a year then returned to play three years with the Nottingham Panthers and Humberside Seahawks of the British league before retiring in 1994.

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