Tate Rink
Owner | U.S. Military Academy |
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Operator | U.S. Military Academy |
Capacity | 2,648 (hockey) |
Surface | 200x90 feet (hockey) |
Construction | |
Opened | October 1, 1985 |
Construction cost | $16 million (entire Holleder Center) |
Tenants | |
Army Black Knights (men's ice hockey) |
Tate Rink is a 2,648-seat
Ryerson Polytechnical Institute (now Toronto Metropolitan University) of Toronto. The first goal scored in the rink was by West Point plebe Vincent McDermott of Braintree, Massachusetts who also scored the second goal that evening. The arena is named for the Tate brothers, Joseph S. Tate '41 and Frederic H.S. Tate '42, who were both pilots killed in combat in World War II. Maj. Don Holleder '56, the namesake of the complex, was an All-American football and basketball player killed in action in Vietnam
in 1967.
Before the Holleder Center was built, the Black Knights hockey team used the open-air Smith Rink, which was across Mills Road, where the James K. Herbert Alumni Center now stands.