Junior varsity hockey coach Jim Hutchinson will be awarded the 1971 Sheaffer Pen Award, for outstanding contribution to collegiate hockey. Wednesday by the New England Hockey Writers.

Hutchinson initiated the junior varsity hockey program in 1955 and has compiled a 170-93-7 record over the 16-year period.

In its first year the JV season only included one or two games. But Hutchinson's active leadership of the program has raised the level of JV competition so that this year's team probably could have skated with any varsity team in Division II.

As an undergraduate from '25 to '28, Hutchinson distinguished himself as a golfer, and he is the last Harvard student ever to quality for the National Intercollegiates three years in a row.