Fifth down Game
Posted by Jim Hyla
Fifth down Game
Posted by: Jim Hyla (---.twcny.res.rr.com)
Date: November 24, 2007 12:45PM
Found these in a Nov8th Sun. Nice to reread about it and to think about football games as just being for fun, especially at this time of year.
Part II: The Fifth Down Game
Part III: The Nation Reacts in the Wake of Concession
Part I: Return to Glory Under SnavelyFrom the Part I Article
I think the majority of people in my generation did that, Conti said. [Football] was a fun thing that you did with a bunch of people that you enjoyed being with.
Part II: The Fifth Down Game
Part III: The Nation Reacts in the Wake of Concession
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"Cornell Fans Made the Timbers Tremble", Boston Globe, March/1970
Cornell lawyers stopped the candy throwing. Jan/2005
"Cornell Fans Made the Timbers Tremble", Boston Globe, March/1970
Cornell lawyers stopped the candy throwing. Jan/2005
Re: Fifth down Game
Posted by: Beeeej (Moderator)
Date: November 24, 2007 12:50PM
Sun
If only they could act like Cornell had in conceding a win to Dartmouth after videotape showed that the Red had won on an illegal fifth down.
"Videotape"? In 1940? *sigh*
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Beeeej, Esq.
"Cornell isn't an organization. It's a loose affiliation of independent fiefdoms united by a common hockey team."
- Steve Worona
Beeeej, Esq.
"Cornell isn't an organization. It's a loose affiliation of independent fiefdoms united by a common hockey team."
- Steve Worona
Re: Fifth down Game
Posted by: Al DeFlorio (---.hsd1.ma.comcast.net)
Date: November 24, 2007 02:47PM
Didn't you know that videotape was invented with only 2:21 remaining in riding time?BeeeejSun
If only they could act like Cornell had in conceding a win to Dartmouth after videotape showed that the Red had won on an illegal fifth down.
"Videotape"? In 1940? *sigh*
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Al DeFlorio '65
Al DeFlorio '65
Re: Fifth down Game
Posted by: Beeeej (Moderator)
Date: November 24, 2007 02:52PM
Al DeFlorioDidn't you know that videotape was invented with only 2:21 remaining in riding time?BeeeejSun
If only they could act like Cornell had in conceding a win to Dartmouth after videotape showed that the Red had won on an illegal fifth down.
"Videotape"? In 1940? *sigh*
...with Ken Dryden backstopping it.
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Beeeej, Esq.
"Cornell isn't an organization. It's a loose affiliation of independent fiefdoms united by a common hockey team."
- Steve Worona
Beeeej, Esq.
"Cornell isn't an organization. It's a loose affiliation of independent fiefdoms united by a common hockey team."
- Steve Worona
Re: Fifth down Game
Posted by: billhoward (---.hsd1.nj.comcast.net)
Date: November 25, 2007 05:40PM
Then Dryden conclusively was the goalie of the 29-0-0 team.BeeeejAl DeFlorioDidn't you know that videotape was invented with only 2:21 remaining in riding time?BeeeejSun
If only they could act like Cornell had in conceding a win to Dartmouth after videotape showed that the Red had won on an illegal fifth down.
"Videotape"? In 1940? *sigh*
...with Ken Dryden backstopping it.
[Postscript to MSG Night: A handful of players from 1967 and 1970 were there and introduced including goaltender [pause] Bob Rule.]
Re: Fifth down Game
Posted by: Jim Hyla (---.twcny.res.rr.com)
Date: November 25, 2007 05:55PM
billhoward
[Postscript to MSG Night: A handful of players from 1967 and 1970 were there and introduced including goaltender [pause] Bob Rule.]
I don't know what you mean by the pause. He was a goalie for the 70 team.
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"Cornell Fans Made the Timbers Tremble", Boston Globe, March/1970
Cornell lawyers stopped the candy throwing. Jan/2005
"Cornell Fans Made the Timbers Tremble", Boston Globe, March/1970
Cornell lawyers stopped the candy throwing. Jan/2005
Re: Fifth down Game
Posted by: billhoward (---.hsd1.nj.comcast.net)
Date: November 25, 2007 06:15PM
Bob Rule was a goalie for the hockey team. Brian Cropper was The Goalie for the team and god help us if Cropper went down. Rule's brilliance was tending nets for Canada's other national sport and that he did wonderfully until he went down late in the 1971 championship season but fortunately the lacrosse backup, Bob Buhmann, was essentially as good, and so Cornell rolled past Maryland 12-6 for the title.Jim Hylabillhoward
[Postscript to MSG Night: A handful of players from 1967 and 1970 were there and introduced including goaltender [pause] Bob Rule.]
I don't know what you mean by the pause. He was a goalie for the 70 team.
No offense intended to Bob Rule, but if fans wanted to applaud one goalie from the 1960s it would have been Dryden, and if you applauded one goalie from the 1969-70 hockey title team, it would have been Brian Cropper. There were only a half dozen members from each of the 1967 and 1970 teams at MSG, as opposed to the entire teams. Not that the night wasn't awesome with just a half dozen, and not that having the entire teams would have reduced the sting of BU's victory.
Re: Fifth down Game
Posted by: Jim Hyla (---.twcny.res.rr.com)
Date: November 25, 2007 09:13PM
billhowardBob Rule was a goalie for the hockey team. Brian Cropper was The Goalie for the team and god help us if Cropper went down. Rule's brilliance was tending nets for Canada's other national sport and that he did wonderfully until he went down late in the 1971 championship season but fortunately the lacrosse backup, Bob Buhmann, was essentially as good, and so Cornell rolled past Maryland 12-6 for the title.Jim Hylabillhoward
[Postscript to MSG Night: A handful of players from 1967 and 1970 were there and introduced including goaltender [pause] Bob Rule.]
I don't know what you mean by the pause. He was a goalie for the 70 team.
No offense intended to Bob Rule, but if fans wanted to applaud one goalie from the 1960s it would have been Dryden, and if you applauded one goalie from the 1969-70 hockey title team, it would have been Brian Cropper. There were only a half dozen members from each of the 1967 and 1970 teams at MSG, as opposed to the entire teams. Not that the night wasn't awesome with just a half dozen, and not that having the entire teams would have reduced the sting of BU's victory.
All that you've said I know; it's just that with your [pause] you seemed to imply that he was either not a hockey goalie or didn't deserve introduction. He provided a valuable service when Coach Harkness was in need. I just didn't want him slighted.
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"Cornell Fans Made the Timbers Tremble", Boston Globe, March/1970
Cornell lawyers stopped the candy throwing. Jan/2005
"Cornell Fans Made the Timbers Tremble", Boston Globe, March/1970
Cornell lawyers stopped the candy throwing. Jan/2005
Re: Fifth down Game
Posted by: jtwcornell91 (Moderator)
Date: November 26, 2007 03:49AM
There seemed to be a shortage of alumni goalies Saturday night, with no Brian Cropper, no Ken Dryden, and no Jim Craig.
Re: Fifth down Game
Posted by: billhoward (---.hsd1.nj.comcast.net)
Date: November 26, 2007 07:50PM
jtwcornell91
There seemed to be a shortage of alumni goalies Saturday night, with no Brian Cropper, no Ken Dryden, and no Jim Craig.
There was a shortage of players, period. But then, it wasn't supposed to be about the famous alumni players coming back.
I bet here's what happened:
MSG told Cornell and BU each could have a syrupy Jumbotron (not so jumbo in their case) and on-ice salute to themselves, Cornell after the first, BU after the second. So Cornell and BU rush off to their photo archives looking for cute coeds and buff men, no exposed tattoos please, strolling across the quadrangle the one day it's not raining and there's nothing dug up. Plus the Asian guy in the wheelchair and make sure there's a lot of African American and Hispanic faces to show diversity. Plus some photos of professors who won the Nobel or have been on Letterman. Which they make into a slideshow (or BU's case, a video with garbled words). Then somebody says, "Hey, let's invite the alumni of our most famous teams, 1967 and 1970, to come back and be saluted on the ice." "We got any money for this?" "We've got enough to fly Ned up from Florida, but that's it, and let's see if the other alums want to come on their own." So they people we got were New Yorkers or Ithacans for the most part.
No big deal. Everybody was pretty happy. How happy?
IIRC, Andy Noel was introduced and nobody booed, that's how mellow the crowd was. Ticket line hassles and surly ushers under his command were forgotten for the evening. Plus he got us that nice wrestling building.
Re: Fifth down Game
Posted by: RichH (76.28.11.---)
Date: November 26, 2007 08:00PM
billhoward
IIRC, Andy Noel was introduced and nobody booed
Wanna bet?
Re: Fifth down Game
Posted by: KeithK (---.external.lmco.com)
Date: November 26, 2007 08:01PM
Seriously? Damn. Just think how great an "Andy must go!" chant would sound coming from 12,000 voices!billhoward
IIRC, Andy Noel was introduced and nobody booed, that's how mellow the crowd was. Ticket line hassles and surly ushers under his command were forgotten for the evening. Plus he got us that nice wrestling building.
I kid, I Kid...
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