Dartmouth hockey coach Grant Standbrook, whose team finished second in the Ivy League last year but nosedived to a 5-19 log this season, has resigned his position, the school announced Tuesday.

A spokesman for Dartmouth said Standbrook's plans are indefinite. He is assistant coach of the U.S. hockey team and may join it in Europe later this month.

Seaver Peters, Dartmouth athletic director, said Standbrook submitted his resignation on Monday. He said that the school will begin searching for a new coach immediately.

Peters declined to give a reason for the resignation saying that Standbrook "told me he wished to resign."

From Winnipeg, Standbrook came to Dartmouth in 1966 and coached freshmen teams until 1970 when he took over the varsity.

He had three winning seasons at Dartmouth, including last year's second place Ivy League finish which put the Big Green into the Eastern College Athletic Conference playoffs for the first time since 1965.

Standbrook was graduated from the University of Minnesota-Duluth in 1961.