When it comes to scoring goals in college hockey, nobody has done it better than Middlebury's Phil Latreille '61. The Panther Hall of Famer easily still holds the NCAA marks (all divisions) for goals in a game (10), season (80) and career (250) more than a half a century after he established them. Each of those marks also rank first in Middlebury's record books.

His senior campaign in the 1960-61 season proved to be his best, finishing with 80 goals and a Middlebury record 108 points. In the collegiate ranks, that goal total sits nine better than the player in second place and no one has hit the 60-goal mark in the last 35 years. In Latreille's final season, he torched Colgate for 10 goals to set the single-game mark. He capped his career as a Panther with a lofty 250 tallies, a whopping 41 more than Marv Degon of Worcester State, who is second for the most scores in college hockey.

A huge factor for the right winger not only being the top goal scorer of his day, but in the history of the collegiate game, was his shot. Latreille took advantage of the slap shot, which wasn't utilized much in his era and it has been cited as both hard and accurate.

"With the changes to the game, no one will ever touch those records," former Middlebury hockey head coach Bill Beaney told Champion Magazine back in January of 2020. "For one, the skating of all the players is so much better than it used to be. Second, the goaltenders are so much more protected and have larger equipment than back then as well. Also, coaching has continued to improve, so strategically they have found ways to shut down individual players."

Latreille's goal-scoring prowess translated into team success as the Panthers went 61-23-1 from 1957-61, including an impressive 19-2 mark his final campaign. That record came before the NCAA split into divisions, putting Middlebury up against many programs that currently compete at the Division I level.

Following his career in the blue and white, Latreille became the first college player from Vermont to play in the National Hockey League. He earned a brief stint with the New York Rangers, back when there were only six teams in the league and players signing from the college ranks was rare.