Visiting Yale/Brown

Anyone have any recommendations for a bar to grab some food and drinks before the Yale and/or Brown games? Went to the Union Station Brewery in Providence last year, but it was pretty quiet...is there a standard place most alumni go?

Who's heading up from NYC? I have a car and could drive, if that's easier; after you factor in the train tickets and cab fares each way, it's probably cheaper (not to mention, more convenient) to car pool there. PM me if you're interested -- besides me, I have space for four in my car.

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Er, sorry, might make sense to mention that I was referring to the Friday night game, at Yale.

HeafDog
Who's heading up from NYC? I have a car and could drive, if that's easier; after you factor in the train tickets and cab fares each way, it's probably cheaper (not to mention, more convenient) to car pool there. PM me if you're interested -- besides me, I have space for four in my car.

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Er, sorry, might make sense to mention that I was referring to the Friday night game, at Yale.

Is beer and wine good enough? Because the pizza is awesome at Pepe's, 157 Wooster St. You'll see two dozen Cornellians there. If you go, arrive early, by 5 p.m., to make sure you get to the game on time. Arrive at 4:30, zero wait. Arrive at 5:30, it could be a half hour. The rink is a drive not a walk of about 5-7 minutes.

Does anyone know if the Cornell Club of RI/Providence has something before the Brown game?

This was just forwarded to me:

The Cornell Club of Rhode Island and Bristol County, MA
cordially invites you to
the following fall and winter events.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Cornell vs. Brown Hockey Game

Reception with snacks and soft drinks at

Paragon
234 Thayer Street, Providence

Saturday, November 14th, 2009

5:00 p.m. -7:00 p.m.

Hockey Game at 7:00 p.m.


$10 for reception ($15 for reception and hockey ticket)

Please RSVP by November 12th to:
cornellclubri@gmail.com

sdelorescarter2@aol.com
Please bring payment to the reception.

Please call Dianne Newman at (401) 861-3474 with questions.

Word is that it’s restaurant week in New Haven, so folks may want to plan accordingly. I am not sure what the level of popularity for it is though…[infonewhaven.com]

By the way, Pepe’s is great stuff so I’ll try to go if I get out of work early.

billhoward


Is beer and wine good enough? Because the pizza is awesome at Pepe's, 157 Wooster St. You'll see two dozen Cornellians there. If you go, arrive early, by 5 p.m., to make sure you get to the game on time. Arrive at 4:30, zero wait. Arrive at 5:30, it could be a half hour. The rink is a drive not a walk of about 5-7 minutes.

The pizza at Modern is even better, and there will be a decent Cornell contingent there, too. And it's even closer to the rink than Pepe's!

dbilmes

billhoward


Is beer and wine good enough? Because the pizza is awesome at Pepe's, 157 Wooster St. You'll see two dozen Cornellians there. If you go, arrive early, by 5 p.m., to make sure you get to the game on time. Arrive at 4:30, zero wait. Arrive at 5:30, it could be a half hour. The rink is a drive not a walk of about 5-7 minutes.

The pizza at Modern is even better, and there will be a decent Cornell contingent there, too. And it's even closer to the rink than Pepe's!

I'd also suggest geting to Modern relatively early.

Do they still have tickets available? I realized that I'm going to be on the east coast this weekend and I'm taking Friday off so that would be a good time to take in a game.

If "they" means Yale: Cornell had Yale tickets available Monday afternoon; they've gone back to Yale today. Last year's Yale game was a real sellout, not just the ticket office saying it's a sellout and then you buy standing room tickets at the door. Which translated last year to we had to get to the game 45 minutes early and it took us 15 minutes in the rain to find two tickets, one sold at face value, one given to my son because he was wearing a Cornell jersey. I'm thinking the Yalies might not realize their team is good, so SRO tickets might be available, and if not, get there early, and you should be okay. Someone will be shut out. Just not you.

Brown tickets should not be a problem.

From the Yale Daily News.

The excitement toward “The Game” has captured the attention of many at Yale. But in and around Ingalls Rink, the Crimson pale in comparison to the Big Red.

Short article but interesting.

Jim Hyla
From the Yale Daily News.

The excitement toward “The Game” has captured the attention of many at Yale. But in and around Ingalls Rink, the Crimson pale in comparison to the Big Red.

Short article but interesting.

I don't understand this quote:

After an opening-game 5–2 win over Princeton on Oct. 31, the Elis lost their ECAC opener to RPI by the same score last Friday, only to muster a late-game tie with Union on the following night.

David Harding

Jim Hyla
From the Yale Daily News.

The excitement toward “The Game” has captured the attention of many at Yale. But in and around Ingalls Rink, the Crimson pale in comparison to the Big Red.

Short article but interesting.

I don't understand this quote:

After an opening-game 5–2 win over Princeton on Oct. 31, the Elis lost their ECAC opener to RPI by the same score last Friday, only to muster a late-game tie with Union on the following night.

The Yale-Princeton game was technically non-conference, I believe.

ebilmes

David Harding

Jim Hyla
From the Yale Daily News.

The excitement toward “The Game” has captured the attention of many at Yale. But in and around Ingalls Rink, the Crimson pale in comparison to the Big Red.

Short article but interesting.

I don't understand this quote:

After an opening-game 5–2 win over Princeton on Oct. 31, the Elis lost their ECAC opener to RPI by the same score last Friday, only to muster a late-game tie with Union on the following night.

The Yale-Princeton game was technically non-conference, I believe.

It was non-conference. There was at least one other non-ECACH-conference game involving two Ivies.

Al DeFlorio

ebilmes

David Harding

Jim Hyla
From the Yale Daily News.

The excitement toward “The Game” has captured the attention of many at Yale. But in and around Ingalls Rink, the Crimson pale in comparison to the Big Red.

Short article but interesting.

I don't understand this quote:

After an opening-game 5–2 win over Princeton on Oct. 31, the Elis lost their ECAC opener to RPI by the same score last Friday, only to muster a late-game tie with Union on the following night.

The Yale-Princeton game was technically non-conference, I believe.

It was non-conference. There was at least one other non-ECACH-conference game involving two Ivies.

Brown played Princeton the same weekend in something called the Showdown at Princeton. Ontario IT was the fourth team involved. Brown and Yale played Ontario in exhibition games. Harvard and Dartmouth played a conference game to start the season and will play a non-conference game at Harvard on November 29. I think I read somewhere that Dartmouth had an open date because BC backed out of a game.

ebilmes

David Harding

Jim Hyla
From the Yale Daily News.

The excitement toward “The Game” has captured the attention of many at Yale. But in and around Ingalls Rink, the Crimson pale in comparison to the Big Red.

Short article but interesting.

I don't understand this quote:

After an opening-game 5–2 win over Princeton on Oct. 31, the Elis lost their ECAC opener to RPI by the same score last Friday, only to muster a late-game tie with Union on the following night.

The Yale-Princeton game was technically non-conference, I believe.

Yeah, and that's actually a beef I have. WHAT GIVES with all these ECACHLMNOP teams scheduling "non-conference" games with other conference members?? OK, for Clarkson-SLU in Ottawa several years ago, I get it...but COME ON. You can't find anybody else to play your extremely limited non-conference games with? REALLY??! I'm sorry, but that sucks.

RichH

ebilmes

David Harding

Jim Hyla
From the Yale Daily News.

The excitement toward “The Game” has captured the attention of many at Yale. But in and around Ingalls Rink, the Crimson pale in comparison to the Big Red.

Short article but interesting.

I don't understand this quote:

After an opening-game 5–2 win over Princeton on Oct. 31, the Elis lost their ECAC opener to RPI by the same score last Friday, only to muster a late-game tie with Union on the following night.

The Yale-Princeton game was technically non-conference, I believe.

Yeah, and that's actually a beef I have. WHAT GIVES with all these ECACHLMNOP teams scheduling "non-conference" games with other conference members?? OK, for Clarkson-SLU in Ottawa several years ago, I get it...but COME ON. You can't find anybody else to play your extremely limited non-conference games with? REALLY??! I'm sorry, but that sucks.

Clarkson and SLU have been doing it the last couple years. I am not a huge fan of it because I think it dilutes the rivalry over time.

My guess would be that it has to do with money and quality of opponents. Clarkson knows that the building will be packed for a SLU game simply because it is SLU. If Clarkson brings in a lower tier team (say Bentley or Robert Morris) there might be 1,000 fewer people in the building and the game on the ice is probably going to be less.

I can't imagine how hard it is to get a top flight team to come to Potsdam for a game...

The North Country pairing is an exception -- every time those guys meet it's basically a Frozen Bean Pot. If the Ivies ever went to 32, we might see a third Cornell-Harvard game every year for the same reason. But nobody else ought to be doing it -- it helps nobody. It probably speak more to the lack of draw that ECAC teams have at WCHA and CCHA sites more than anything else. With one of the two mid-majors disappearing next year, it may become even more prevalent.

Trotsky
The North Country pairing is an exception -- every time those guys meet it's basically a Frozen Bean Pot.

Hey, it doesn;t freeze until mid-November up here...

I wore shorts and short sleeves to the CCT-SLU game this year...

Agreed. But there just aren't that many non-conference games to go around; I think ECAC teams still play more non-conference games than anyone else. When you have to schedule 7 or 10 games every year it can be hard to find matches if your team isn't a big draw.

A perfect example is Michigan Tech. Jamie Russell took the head coaching job there and at first I thought for sure that we'd end up playing MTU in the near future because of the relationship. But look at their schedule. They have six non-conference games: two in the GLI, two against long UP rival Northern Michigan and then two other games that are typically in October. So much for that idea. (MTU has been bad enough that I'm not really upset by this but still.)

Only SRO tickets are left at Ingalls.

RichH


Yeah, and that's actually a beef I have. WHAT GIVES with all these ECACHLMNOP teams scheduling "non-conference" games with other conference members?? OK, for Clarkson-SLU in Ottawa several years ago, I get it...but COME ON. You can't find anybody else to play your extremely limited non-conference games with? REALLY??! I'm sorry, but that sucks.

Possibly playing other Ivies is an attempt at playing an opponent that DOESN'T have the advantage of a few weeks of extra practice and several games. While the games don't count in the league, they still contribute to RPI/Krach, right?

TimV

RichH


Yeah, and that's actually a beef I have. WHAT GIVES with all these ECACHLMNOP teams scheduling "non-conference" games with other conference members?? OK, for Clarkson-SLU in Ottawa several years ago, I get it...but COME ON. You can't find anybody else to play your extremely limited non-conference games with? REALLY??! I'm sorry, but that sucks.

Possibly playing other Ivies is an attempt at playing an opponent that DOESN'T have the advantage of a few weeks of extra practice and several games. While the games don't count in the league, they still contribute to RPI/Krach, right?

For early in the season games this is the best reason I've heard.Didn't we used to have an emoticon with a light bulb?

Jim Hyla

TimV

RichH


Yeah, and that's actually a beef I have. WHAT GIVES with all these ECACHLMNOP teams scheduling "non-conference" games with other conference members?? OK, for Clarkson-SLU in Ottawa several years ago, I get it...but COME ON. You can't find anybody else to play your extremely limited non-conference games with? REALLY??! I'm sorry, but that sucks.

Possibly playing other Ivies is an attempt at playing an opponent that DOESN'T have the advantage of a few weeks of extra practice and several games. While the games don't count in the league, they still contribute to RPI/Krach, right?

For early in the season games this is the best reason I've heard.Didn't we used to have an emoticon with a light bulb?

This is why for many seasons Ivy football teams opened their season against another Ivy. From 1976 through 1996 Cornell opened, with one or two exceptions, with Princeton or Penn.

TimV
Possibly playing other Ivies is an attempt at playing an opponent that DOESN'T have the advantage of a few weeks of extra practice and several games. While the games don't count in the league, they still contribute to RPI/Krach, right?

I honestly don't think any program in the ECAC other than Cornell and possibly Harvard (which is always set with its Boston area games) would think to factor PWR into their scheduling.

Anyone going to the pre-game reception in Providence?