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Re: [ot] Wresting at EIWA Championships. - 19 years ago
Wow! Seven automatic qualifiers and two wild cards. Nine out of ten wrestlers going to nationals is outstanding.by David Harding - Hockey
Re: OT: Cornell basketball season ends tonight - 19 years ago
peterg Wrote: Don't forget wrestling. Second in the EIWA's to Lehigh by only 2.5 points, with nine wrestlers qualifying for nationals. Or women's polo with five straight national championships!!!by David Harding - Hockey
Re: RPI primer (brackets for dummies): Why #2/#3 Cornell may seed lower - 19 years ago
Thank you for your analysis and explanations.by David Harding - Hockey
Re: Vermont misses NCAA's APR threshold - 19 years ago
Beeeej Wrote: Last I heard, Cornell's varsity athletes had a higher four-year graduation rate, higher five-year graduation rate, and higher aggregate cumulative GPA than the average student at Cornell. I think that's impressive. Beeeej It fluctutes from year to year. The standard measure is the six year graduation rate. Cornell's overall rate increased steadily through the 1980's, thby David Harding - Hockey
Re: Ex-Cornell coaches: Where are the now? - 19 years ago
CUlater 89 Wrote: Robb Wrote: Tim Vanini was at Cortland State. I forgot exactly why, but he was at the MSU games in November. Part of my brain is telling me that he said he was in Med School out that way, but the rest of my brain is telling me I'm crazy... I'm pretty sure he got some type of graduate degree at MSU in golf course management (caretaking, not shot playing). Googling &by David Harding - Hockey
Re: This Week's Column Up - 19 years ago
A fine artice! Just for the sake of quibbling, The whole idea behind the best-of-seven series in professional sports is that teams are inevitably going to have bad games so they should not be fatally penalized when they do occur. I always thought that the main idea of a multi-game playoff was to make more money for the owners.by David Harding - Hockey
Re: Big Red coverage in Canada - 19 years ago
It's impressive that they spell out the financial aid situation at Cornell.by David Harding - Hockey
Re: [OT] Star Wars technology for safer rinks - 19 years ago
Jeff Hopkins '82 Wrote: Actually, it doesn't take much to do a number on stainless tubing. Boil some salt water in stainless at pressure, and you can make it shatter like glass. We did it to one of our boilers at one of our H2 plants. I believe aqueous sulfuric and nitric acid will do it as well. We filled a big, new stainless steel water system with what we thought was veyr clean watby David Harding - Hockey
Re: [OT] Star Wars technology for safer rinks - 19 years ago
They could zap candy bars, too.by David Harding - Hockey
Re: Cornell 4 Union 1 - 19 years ago
billhoward Wrote: When I sat in end zone seats in days before netting, I was conscious of watching pucks coming my way and also in the direction of my girlfriend if she was chatting up her friend ... but I could also see how I could be inattentive and get nailed if I attended enough games. Inattentive? Look at it this way: every once in a while McKee sometimes misses a puck coming his way!by David Harding - Hockey
Re: Cornell 3 Union 0 (3rd) - 19 years ago
ganderson Wrote: Anyone know the origin of the term "hat trick" (and willing to share it with the rest of us?) Ask Yahoo says it's an old cricket tradition. The Maven's Word of the Day agrees Dates from the the 1870's.by David Harding - Hockey
Re: Cornell 4 Union 0 (3rd) (McKee B2B shutouts?) - 19 years ago
billhoward Wrote: Does McKee have a weekend shutout or even back to back shutouts? Edited 1 times. Last edit at 02/19/05 09:05PM by billhoward. St Lawrence 1/29/04, Colgate 2/4/05by David Harding - Hockey
Re: Lynah remodel - keeping up with the Joneses - 19 years ago
Until spectators fill the west end, the goalie has a less cluttered view of the incoming puck. View of the clock.by David Harding - Hockey
Re: Lynah remodel - keeping up with the Joneses - 19 years ago
jmh30 Wrote: If, in theory, you wanted to un-split the student section, and also wanted to keep the people with tickets in C and M happy, and also didn't want to do any significant renovation, couldn't you put the students in E-F-G-H-J-K and have Cornell shoot at that end twice a game? There are other reasons to shoot at the west end and defend the east.by David Harding - Hockey
Re: righty/lefty - 19 years ago
Oh, I certainly agree that it's generally easier to pose a question than answer it, sports or otherwise. I've judged quite a few science fairs over the last 15 years and have seen some ingenious attempts middle school and elementary school students to measure the behavior of baseball bats and balls and such. Some had a better understanding of a controlled experiment than others. I think that iby David Harding - Hockey
Re: NHL + PA Still Talking - 19 years ago
Here's a relevant story about one of Bâby's current teammates: 'I just want to fight more' By Mike Spellman Daily Herald Sports Writer 2/11/2005 A few weeks ago, Kip Brennan requested a meeting with Chicago Wolves coach John Anderson. Keep in mind that Brennan stands 6-feet-4, 240 pounds, and among the duties listed on his job description is beating the snot out of people. Wheby David Harding - Hockey
Re: 1983 Harvard game question - 19 years ago
Jerseygirl Wrote: ...Girls' sports in my area were all about singing on the bus and putting ribbons on each others' ponytails. Ugh. Guys don't pull that kind of crap, do they? ... -Jers When guys do that it's called hazing.by David Harding - Hockey
Re: righty/lefty - 19 years ago
billhoward Wrote: I wonder if there ever was quantitative testing of curved vs. straight sticks. Does the quality, speed, accuracy (?) of the shot outweigh its drawbacks on the backhand side? I'm at a total loss as to how one could do this quantitatively. At first I thought that it might be straightforward to compare speed and accuaracy of shooting with curved and straight sticks becauseby David Harding - Hockey
Dear Uncle Ezra about the cowbell - 19 years ago
Today's Dear Uncle Ezra discusses the question of cowbell succession. Dear Uncle Ezra- There is always a guy with a cowbell at the Cornell hockey games. How is this tradition passed down when one cowbeller graduates? -Hockey Fanby David Harding - Hockey
Re: game worn jerseys avail. for sale (miscellaneous thoughts) - 19 years ago
billhoward Wrote: Cornell sometime in the past wore the style with the lace-up collar, right? I seem to recall seeing one of those at one point. You're perhaps thinking of team pictures where the second line of type after the "Cornell" part said "NCAA Champion" or "NCAA Runner-Up." Thus the lace-up jerseys may have some sentimental interest to old guard hockeyby David Harding - Hockey
Re: Lynah remodel - keeping up with the Joneses - 19 years ago
nyc94 Wrote: Scersk '97 Wrote: You can almost feel the cantilevered concrete sagging under the weight of more books than it was designed for. Speaking of buildings collapsing, what's the deal with Martha Van Rennselaer Hall? Wasn't it condemned? In driving around campus last fall if ever there were a corner of campus to be redeveloped this is it. I had to look on map to remember/learn thby David Harding - Hockey
Re: game worn jerseys avail. for sale - 19 years ago
The FAQ for the procedure, at least as of when it was writtenby David Harding - Hockey
Re: Best Places to Watch a College game - 19 years ago
... nothing else to do but drink (hell, look at their fight song). Are you talking about Maine or Cornell or both?by David Harding - Hockey
Re: Of Fandom, Then and Now - 19 years ago
As a member of the Class of '72, I have to agree that they were good years. Men's gymnastics dominated the Ivy League, too. A national championship in the IRA regatta. They even ran the season ticket line well. As a townie, following the teams in the early to mid '60s, I'd have to say that times were pretty good then, too - for the football you mention, for the basketball with Steve Craby David Harding - Hockey
Re: Davenport Has Left the Team - 19 years ago
billhoward Wrote: Section A Banshee Wrote:The Ithaca Journal article about his leaving suggests that Schafer thought that Davenport might replace or at least share time with McKee. He might have been slipped that line or given that impression while he was being recruited. I believe Schafer also said in the Journal he was also shocked, shocked by how McKee developed this year early on.by David Harding - Hockey
Re: Cornell-Union Postgame Thread - 19 years ago
Steve M Wrote: Chris '03 Wrote: Steve M Wrote: I've never heard of a 5 min. charging penalty. Edited 1 times. Last edit at 01/15/05 11:12AM by Steve M. Like other penalties, a vicious charge will get 5. It's not terribly common, but with the seemingly increased frequency of majors this season, it'll probably pop up more often. It happened as recently as october in D1: "by David Harding - Hockey
Re: RIT to go D-I - 19 years ago
jmh30 Wrote: I'm pretty sure there's somewhere on the web you can look up lat/long for just about anywhere. Here are a few, courtesy of Google:by David Harding - Hockey
Re: Phil Kessel - 19 years ago
Greg Berge Wrote: David Harding Wrote: Today it's more PC to say one is in the upper 90% of one's class. Somebody in the bottom 10% of his class is not in the top 90% of his class. Even at Harvard. That's not what David Harding wrote. That's what Bill Howard wrote.by David Harding - Hockey
Re: Phil Kessel - 19 years ago
35+ years ago a Harvard alumnus came to my high school to talk with prospective applicants. When asked about the preference given to children of alumni, his response was that 1/10 of all students at Harvard would be in the botton 10% of their class. It made sense, he said, to spare students who had been top-notch academically in high school the emotional turmoil of doing poorly in college by fiby David Harding - Hockey