When Penn State hockey pioneer Roy Scott arrived on campus in 1971, he was disappointed the school didn’t have a hockey team.
To address that issue, former coach Joe Battista said Scott went around and received nearly 5,000 signatures from students, petitioning to create a club hockey team.
As Scott and his teammates began to play as a club team, initial thoughts swirled around about elevating the team to Division I status. At the time, however, they were just happy to have a competitive place to play hockey.
“We just wanted to play,” Scott told The Daily Collegian.