Mining the Crimson

This probably would have been more useful before this weekend, but here are some entertaining articles from The Havard Crimson of the late 60s:

A surprising head count at Lynah:
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Lynah attendance--9300:
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The Crimson notices a change in our roster--Canadians:
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3-3 BU Cornell overtime tie Boston:
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A Harvard tradition--being outcheered:
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Sour Grapes on our National Championship:
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A Cornell-inflicted slump:
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Referring to our frats and ag school, Harvard gets its own Canadian goalie:
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Love Story--Die already!
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NCAA against Canadians:
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Lumping Clarkson with Cornell and Canadians:
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The McGuinn Crimson Cup and McGuinn's ineligibility:
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Typicality of "we're number one" chants at Watson (pre-Bright):
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(The Crimson writer says that the 1970 team is not invincible, leading to...)

1970 team crushes Harvard at Lynah:
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Harkness leaves, The Crimson celebrates:
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Enjoy.

Neat, thanks. Brings back alot of memories.

Great stuff. Makes me hate Harvard even more. For the younger readers (most of you), not a whole lot is true in the articles. The class of '67 did have some physical players though, but the penalties in the NCAA championship game (see the Sour Grapes article) on Orr and Ferguson were phantom and bullshit calls by a referee who outwardly proclaimed that Canadians shouldn't be playing American college hockey. His name - Bill Cleary. Ned's teams the next three year were all hustle - basically just outskating the opponents to death. Every shift was played as a furious sprint, and we would use 45-50 second shifts when the norm was still a minute and a half or longer. The secret of Cornell's success was that we always outworked the other team, and it normally wasn't close. Each shift would skate off to an ovation for their 45-50 seconds of effort, and it was contagious.

Whatever happened to the goalie duel as stated in the
Referring to our frats and ag school, Harvard gets its own Canadian goalie:
article?

[Q]aznxjz Wrote:

Whatever happened to the goalie duel as stated in the
Referring to our frats and ag school, Harvard gets its own Canadian goalie:
article?[/q]
Cornell 6 - @ Harvard 3

[Q]The fans scored the last blow, however. As they piled out of the rink, one of them socked the timekeeper and knocked him unconscious for five minutes[/Q]

Well, at least they didn't throw bottles on the ice...

[q]The players are denied a home-ice advantage when supporters of the visiting team out-cheer the local folks, as happened in the Brown game here this December. Harvard spectators are seldom vocal, and we appreciate this aspect of the image as much as anyone, but this reserve necessitates the presence of a greater quantity of Crimson rooters to fill the air with the proper hum of bias.[/q]I love it! The sports writer feels the need to say that Harvard fans being quiet is a good thing!

Thanks for posting this. The proposal to limit Canadian participation on NCAA teams was a huge issue at the time and was widely seen as an attempt by schools with local recruiting pools to punish/weaken Cornell and other schools that recruited Canadian players. I don't recall how this wound up being derailed, but restrictions on eligibility for Tier 1 juniors were enacted at the time and were a more sensible way to help level opportunities for American players, to the extent that that was necessary. Any other old-timers with better memories?