Go to Ski Team History
1916 The Outing Club organized with the purpose of developing winter sports among the men. Ski and snow-shoe teams organized.
1921 The Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association formed with the Middlebury Outing Club as a charter member of the organization. Its purpose was the promotion of interest in intercollegiate ski running and the adoption of uniform rules at ski meets. (The competition seemed more like a cold weather Boy Scout Jamboree.)
1924 Ski jump built on Chipman Hill.
1931 Formation of Mt. Club after earlier Outing Club had died in 1925.
1933 Winter Sports Team organized.
1934 First trails cut at Snow Bowl--making the Bowl the third oldest ski area in Vermont.
Coach--Arthur Brown
First meet held at Middlebury under auspices of Mountain Club as part of Winter Carnival--Dartmouth 37, Midd. 6 1/2.
Howard J. Kelly '34--Captain, Manager
1935 New ski jump and downhill course established on Chipman Hill.
First coed winter carnival. A handful of candidates from Jackson and Mt. Holyoke arrived and went down to Chipman Hill mostly for the benefit of photographers.
Ski team travelled to Canada for first time to win fourth place in Ski Union tourney at St. Saveur.
Coach: Arthur Brown
Captain: J. Reginald Springstead '36
1936 CCC boys came over from Rochester and spent more than a thousand manual hours on a new trail at Bread Loaf to be known as the Widows Clearing Ski Trail.
Skiing becomes a minor sport in women's college.
Prof. Ben Wissler chalked up a record for fastest score--tallyong of any college meet of the season.
Middlebury ranked among outstanding ski teams of New England: 3 firsts, one third, one fourth, one ninth.
Coach Brown Captain C. John Holmes '36
1937 Most skiing events except jumping move from Chipman Hill to Bread Loaf.
Ski team under regular coaching
Coach: Richard C. Hubbard '36
Captain: Charles J. Harvi '37
1938 Town unite to build ski center and log cabin.
Coach: Richard C. Hubbard
Captain: Melvin H. Carter '39
First meet at Bread Loaf
1939 First Middlebury Women's ski team formed.
1940 Construction of tow at Bread Loaf completed.
1944-45 No organized teams because of the war.
1948 Middlebury's most succesful team up to that date. Winners of the National championship at Sun Valley, Idaho.
Becky Fraser, captain of the 1944 and 1945 women's team, became the first Middlebury skier to compete for the U.S. Olympic Team, in the Witner Games at St. Moritz
Coach: "Bobo" Sheehan
Captain: Joesph Bailey
1954 The Snow Bowl was open for 110 days of skiing.
Worth Mt. Poma installed:
first U.S. customer of the Poma Lift Corporation.
first college to put in an overhead cable lift.
1955 The Snow Bowl was open for 123 days of skiing.
1956 Neil Starr shelter in first phase of development.
First Sno-Cat arrives.
Snow Bowl Rates--Lift and Tows:
All day $3.50 Half day 2.50 Single ride .35 The Snow Bowl was open for 95 days of skiing.
1962 Starr shelter completed.
1963 Battell Poma installed.
1965 Ski School Poma installed.
1967 New jumping judges stand.
1968 35 meter jump built.
1969 Double chair lift built.
Worth Mt. Poma relocated to Bailey Falls
1976 Women win National Championships.
1988 Bailey Falls triple chair is built:
115 chairs 4400 feet long
2004 The oldest original base lodge in the nation―at the Middlebury College Snow Bowl in Hancock wasvrenamed Hubbard Cabin in honor of Richard C. Hubbard.