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Re: Wrestling 21-22 - 2 years ago
Ugarte, a couple of questions. I really look forward to your postings on this. Is Arujau better in freestyle than folkstyle? It seems he has gone further in international than college competition. Does he have the higher upside there? And I assume he has a higher upside in general than, say, Glory. I don't remember as big a difference between free and folk back decades ago (even if the style nby Chuck Henderson - Other Sports
Re: Men's basketball 2018-19 - 5 years ago
mountainred Steve may not be a Ned Harkness of basketball, but he's a good coach. He's, at worst, the second best Cornell coach of all-time after Sam MacNeil (unless you really want to lobby for the work Albert Sharpe did a century ago). MacNeil by the record may look pretty good, but I and everyone I knew thought he was a bad coach in terms of game-time decisions. If one has him as a contendby Chuck Henderson - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2019 - 5 years ago
Ierlan won 79.1% of face-offs in 2018, the greatest single season in NCAA lacrosse history. Greatest season since what year? Memory can be tricky, but I think Bruce Pfann ('59) probably had a higher percent. There were games when he didn't lose a single faceoff. I remember such a game when Cornell beat Syracuse pretty handily, but that was shortly after Jim Brown graduated (he took some faceoffby Chuck Henderson - Other Sports
Re: Radio - 6 years ago
Grady and Adam and Jason have all been fantastic and have all been anti-homer. We have been blessed. But we shouldn't forget the duo of Roy Ives and Tom Joseph (a casual friend of mine, a class behind me at IHS, who died a few years ago), who were quite the opposite but great in their own way. I can't remember when they stopped doing the broadcasts--it seems like only yesterday--but maybe befoby Chuck Henderson - Hockey
Re: Kyle Dake and other dominant Cornell athletes - 9 years ago
billhoward Someone sees just your list and not your underlying thoughts, they'll think: "The man is daft." You do make some interesting points. But, sheesh, Ken Dryden behind four others? I gave my justification for putting Nieuwendyk ahead of Dryden, but it could be argued either way. My main point was that I didn't think they should be 5 positions apart on the Alumni Magazine listby Chuck Henderson - Other Sports
Re: Kyle Dake and other dominant Cornell athletes - 9 years ago
George's posting on the Alumni Magazine list was a while back, but the topic is timeless. The list seems pretty reasonable. Presumably it's just the straight voting result, with nothing done to resolve any contradictions or rankings that would look out of order if a single person were doing it. For example, Dryden is first and Nieuwendyk sixth. I don't see how one separates them in the rankings bby Chuck Henderson - Other Sports
Re: Wrestling (2016 NCAAs in New York) - 9 years ago
Is Cornell trying to get the NCAA tournament here again sometime, or has it become too big? We hosted in Barton in 1955 and 1964. I remember them as great experiences, especially 1955. What would Cornell's score and placing have been this year if Garrett performed up to seed, or even placed first? Koll said he sustained a minor injury in the first round match, but the freshman he lost to had aby Chuck Henderson - Other Sports
Re: Time for a New Arena thread - 9 years ago
One of the (few) advantages of extreme old age is having seen it all happen again and again... whenever the team has hit a protracted rough patch the fan support has gone into hibernation and everybody has knocked one another over in the scramble to find deep, systemic reasons for the Irreversible Decline of the Lynah Faithful. And then we start winning and it all goes away. From an even lby Chuck Henderson - Hockey
Re: Frozen Four - 9 years ago
I've never been bothered by BU's winning in recent times. They are/were a big rival but a good one. The relationship Arthur mentions also counts a little. UNO seems so irrelevant to Cornell in terms of recruiting that I don't care; holding our own against them this season is a slight plus if they win. UND wins so much that it doesn't change anything if they win again. I've never liked Providence.by Chuck Henderson - Hockey
Re: 2015-16 - 9 years ago
Setting statistical models aside, I don't think recent lack of success is as much style, speed, or match-ups as some seem to think. It's greater parity overall and the fading of Cornell's traditional advantages. While it should not be difficult to get back to ECAC top 4, although there are now many more contenders, it's likely going to be difficult to do much more. In a moneyball sense, Cornby Chuck Henderson - Hockey
Re: 2015-16 - 9 years ago
The models above probably get at the basic result. If one wants to do a more complete analysis, a mixed model could be specified with random regressions of goals on years estimated for each NCAA team, conceptualized as deviations around an overall fixed regression ; teams also would be included as levels of a random classification factor. Cornell could be held out and estimated as an additional fby Chuck Henderson - Hockey
Re: Best ECAC rink - 11 years ago
Barton Hall was great for basketball, especially in earlier days. I guess one has to discount a little for my original child's impression. I spent a sizable part of my life in Barton, from the '48-'49 season through '63-'64 (much less after returning to town in 1972). I went to all basketball games; freshmen basketball games, which were usually before the varsity; all wresting meets (the NCAby Chuck Henderson - Hockey
Re: Frozen Four Results - 11 years ago
I think BearLover's arguments are being given too little credence. It's interesting that most serious posters, by which I guess I mean long-time posters whom I would usually agree with, are on the other side of the debate. (In the context of this discussion only, I might almost say Very Serious Posters, but I suppose that's not really fair.) Have we really been losing that many recruits becaby Chuck Henderson - Hockey
Re: Kyle Dake and other dominant Cornell athletes - 11 years ago
I always like these kinds of lists. With this many names, this almost becomes a list of top Cornell athletes rather than the truly elite at Dake's level. Koll is describing Dake as the best collegiate wrester in history. That's probably accurate when one figures in that the other 2 4-time champions red-shirted. Related to an earlier thread, one obvious reason for Dake's moving up 3 weightby Chuck Henderson - Other Sports
Re: CU vs. Denver - 11 years ago
The Denver cameras didn't show much of the scuffle after the final whistle. And I haven't watched any of the video again. But given those caveats, I pretty much disagree with the those thinking the team embarrassed the university. Perhaps the officials did the maximum to make it seem that way. This is also very far from the most undisciplined team ever. I don't think there was a replay onby Chuck Henderson - Hockey
Re: Wrestling wins Ivies - 12 years ago
The squash team has been good for the past 3 years or so, certainly a rise from where they had been in recent decades. But this is not the first time at this national level. The 1963-64 team (on which I played) may have been Cornell's best. It's hard to compare eras, and there are a lot more teams playing now. We beat Yale and Penn for the first time in the program's then short history. Rankby Chuck Henderson - Other Sports
Re: NCAA wrestling - 14 years ago
As a little further context on the second place finish, the most recent, and only, champion from the East was Penn State in 1953. I knew that; but I'm having trouble finding team standings by year. Does anyone know how many times eastern teams have finished second? 1953 was also the year when Cornell had two national champions, Don Dickason and Frank Bettucci, the tournament's most outstandingby Chuck Henderson - Other Sports
Re: Cornell Penalty Shots - 17 years ago
Give My Regards1/20/73 -- Carlo Ugolini, vs Toronto (Anderson) -- score This is the one that really stands out in my memory. Ugolini did a complete 360 as he came in on the goalie. Is that even legal now?by Chuck Henderson - Hockey
Re: Alumni in the Pros -- November 2006 - goalies in NHL - 17 years ago
billhowardWonder if any Cornell goaltenders besides McKee have been to the NHL without playing in a game. For instance Dave Elenbaas '73, who spent a half-dozen years in the AHL and several years had the lowest GAA. Elenbaas was called up to Montreal briefly under circumstances similar to McKee's.by Chuck Henderson - Hockey
Re: [OT] Vermont-UCLA basketball - 20 years ago
big red apple writes Greg Berge '85 wrote: Wasn't the AZ loss our only appearance in the NCAA tourny? (I don't know about the NIT).Cornell also made the NCAA tournament in 1954. We got a first round bye, lost to Navy in the second round and then lost to NC State in the regional consy. (Both Navy and NC State lost to eventual champion La Salle. The 1954 team was probably the best Cornell tby Chuck Henderson - Hockey
Re: Satellite co-ordinates - 21 years ago
From the backhaul listserv: WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS (NORTHEAST REGIONAL) March 28: C Band: Telestar 5 Transponder C8 Game One - 4 p.m. - Boston vs. Harvard Game Two - 7:30 p.m. - New Hampshire vs. St. Cloud State March 29: C Band: Telestar 5 Transponder C8 Quarterfinal Game, 8 p.m. - TBD MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA (WEST REGIONAL) March 28: C Band: AMC 3 Transponder C19 Game One - 5 p.m. - North Daby Chuck Henderson - Hockey
Re: FINAL call for signatures - 21 years ago
Hey Al, who is this Chuck Henderson guy? He's older than either of us... Someone who from the perspective of having been at Lynah from the start (the days of double-digit shutout losses to the likes of Middlebury and Colby) thinks that the current athletic administration, either from intent or inattention, is behaving shabbily in ways that I've never seen before. But I have posted here occasiby Chuck Henderson - Hockey
Re: joe nieuwendyk - 22 years ago
Bill Fenwick writes > Easily the best Cornell forward I have ever seen, dating back > to my first game in December of '82. And the best I've seen, going back to the first games played at Lynah. > There's a reason why, to this day, he is the only Cornell > player to have been a Hobey Baker finalist. Greg says > And that reason is the award was started too late toby Chuck Henderson - Hockey
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