Coach Kelly Coach Kelly

Richard Clark Richard Clark

Norm Bolitho Norm Bolitho

Bill MacGillvary Bill MacGillvary

Don Wells Don Wells

Pete Kelly had lost a lot of scoring from his UNB Red Devils in Ron "Bomber" Andrea, Don Morrow, Bob Soward, George Oke and Tom Jarrett. New recruits were Frank Barteaux, Bob Naylor, Joel Violette, Graham Farquaharson, Dave Simpson, Don Ciotti and local defenseman Bob Grant.
Colby College became the first US College team to visit Fredericton and UNB embarked on a ten game exhibition schedule. They recorded a 7-3 record including two wins over Colby (4-3 and 4-1).

In Intercollegiate play the Red Devils were again involved with St. Thomas, Mt. A and St. Dunstan's in a home-and-home schedule to pick the top two finalists. This season the Devils really got rolling and recorded a 5-1 record and goalie Dave Inch yeilded only 14 games.

Defending champion, St. Thomas University was the main competition. The Tommies had a few player losses in Terry Gulliver, Ron Hachey, Ray Belliveau and Joe Richard, but found ample replacements in Greg Morris, Paul Grannan and Bob Monteith.

UNB suffered their only loss in Chatham against STU, but beat the Tommies 9-4 in Fredericton, while St. Thomas coasted to a 4-1-1 recorded. Top UNB scorers were Richard Clark (7-7), Frank Barteaux (4-8), Don Ciotti (3-8), George Cloutier (7-3), Norm Bolitho (3-6), Bill MacGillvary (3-6) and defenseman Don Wells (1-8), while STU had league leading point scorer Ed Hospodar (8-14), Larry Wood (8-10) and Bernie Keating (8-9). Bryan Jones was moved to the second line and managed (1-6).

The two teams met in the playoffs and UNB jumped into a 3-0 first period lead in Chatham, but the Tommies picked away until Bryan Jones scored the winner in a 4-3 game. Graham Farquaharson scored his only two goals of the season for the Devils.

Richard Clark took charge in the return gmae in Fredericton, scoring three times to lead UNB to 4-2 win and a close series victory (7-6). John Lordon and Bernie Keating replied for St. Thomas, who were outshot 36-24.

This set up the annual battle against St. F.X. with the first game going to Antigonish. The teams were scoreless after one period, but St. F.X. jumped into a 3-0 scond period lead. Goals by Richard Clark, Joel Violette and Bob Naylor earned a UNB tie after 60 minutes. In the overtime J.P. Peron scored for the X-Men and the series returned to Fredericton.

The close play continued in game two, as the teams were tied 6-6 after regulation time. It took 22 minutes of overtime before Norm Bolitho scored his second goal of the game for UNB to even the series. Bolitho was later named winner of the Ken Corbett Medal as the top all around UNB athlete.

St. FX jumped into a 1-0 first period lead in the deciding tilt ad were still ahead 2-1 after 40 minutes. In the third period big defensman Don Wells tied the score and it took until 17:07 befire George Cloutier got the winner. Richard Clark sealed the deal with an empty net goal to mark the second straigh season that the West had beaten St. F.X.

UNB played twenty-one exhibition game, season and playoff games adn the leading scorer by far was Richard Clark (23-22-45). Other top performers were Bill MacGillvary (16-15), Frank Barteaux (11-19), Geroge Cloutier (11-15), Norm Bolitho (11-14) and Joel Violette (11-13). Defenseman Don Wells recorded 3-16-19 and led in peanalty with 47 minutes.