Show all posts by user
Further debilitate my server with this and other completely OT topics
Re: New Arena for Cornell - 20 years ago
This is the eLynah fans' plan to build a new rink, not Cornell's? I came back to Lynah for the Princeton-Yale weekend for the first time in a long while (last time, Dick Bertrand was still coach) and it seemed about the same raffishly charming and worn building, even down to Mike Teeter manning the goal judge booth. (And the same tattered hockey pants, but I mentioned that in a different thread.)by billhoward - Hockey
Re: New Arena for Cornell - 20 years ago
A number of press boxes are in the end zone - Princeton, BU's old (well, not that old) arena. Terrible place to watch the game. While it may not sadden you to see the media stuck in lousy seats, subconsciously they'll grouse about the place more. That's not good for the hockey program.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: All Ivy Teams Announced - 20 years ago
Ihnacak *could* have won ROTY without being first or second team All-Ivy (compared to McKee being second team All-Ivy and not ROTY) if the voters felt the depth of quality among forwards was so great that someone not among the first or second team of forwards was still better than a second-team goalie or defenseman. That's how it could have happened.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: ECAC TV ? - 20 years ago
Here's the Comcast (CN8) schedule off its site. This is the Mid-Atlantic region listings (NY NJ PA MD DE) as opposed to New England: Fri., Nov 21 7:30pm New Hampshire @ Northeastern Sat., Jan 3 7:00pm Boston C. @ Northeastern Sat., Jan 10 7:00pm St. Lawrence @ Yale Fri., Mar 12 8:00pm ECAC Tournament Quarterfinal Fri., Mar 19 4:30pm ECAC Tournament Semifinal #1 Fri., Mar 19 7:45pm ECACby billhoward - Hockey
Re: ECAC TV ? - 20 years ago
The conflict with Hockey East may be the killer. Maybe the world needs CSTV2 for overflow.by billhoward - Hockey
Hockey humor - 20 years ago
Q: How was Toronto founded? A: Somebody from Montreal was playing hockey on the St. Lawrence and got a breakaway.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: LeNeveu's GAA record in jeopardy? - 20 years ago
1973: Murray, Cornell's huge All-America defenseman (talk about same-name deja vu in reverse) blasts in a slap shot from the point 40 seconds in the third period to make it 5-2 Cornll over Wisconsin and there's no way, no way, you're thinking, that Cornell won't go all the way. Basically, that was it for Cornell's glory in the NCAAs until McEneaney and French teamed up in 1976 and 1977 and brouby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Panoramic Photos of a Full Lynah? - 20 years ago
You've hit on an interesting question - who gets paid fees if you take pictures at a sporting event? Newspaper photographers in the past supplemented their incomes by selling prints for, say, $10 a pop, from sports events or fires or whatnot. That's small potatos. Now, the NY Times wants to sell prints by the hundreds of sporting events and Major League Baseball wants a cut of the action. Or Babeby billhoward - Hockey
Re: LeNeveu's GAA record in jeopardy? - 20 years ago
Heh! I'm off by about one year on every circa 1970 hockey event. Of couse, President Bush is having trouble accounting for a year of so of his life back then, also. I completely blanked on the BU - Cornell game. Shock does that to you. My partial recall is that year Cornell beat BU during the regular season, then BU turned the trick on Cornell come playoff time. Amazing how long that's been - whyby billhoward - Hockey
Re: LeNeveu's GAA record in jeopardy? - 20 years ago
You're right. I forgot that he ended his career as Dick Bertrand's player in the lost season of 1970-71, not as Dick Bertrand's teammate. At least he didn't have to suffer through 1972's horror of being up 5-2 on Wisconsin with 19 minutes to go in the NCAA semis and lose 6-5 in OT. I think that was the end of the Big Red dynasty.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: LeNeveu's GAA record in jeopardy? - 20 years ago
If Jim Howard, no relation, gives up 2 goals in his next game, the average goes up about .07 to 1.35. If he gets one shutout and plays no more during the year, he'd finish around 1.18. He's played 14.2 games (852.19, 18GA) counting OT and each one goal game he plays in a 60-minute game drops his average roughly to 1.25, 1.23, 1.22. In the playoffs, except maybe in an early round, I don't think yoby billhoward - Hockey
Re: THE GO RED GIRLS - 20 years ago
I'm thinking maybe the coach doesn't show off eLynah to prospects' parents on the first visit.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: THE GO RED GIRLS - 20 years ago
Maybe Ezra would have to rephrase: "I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in every perversion."by billhoward - Hockey
Harvard Crimson V Spot article - 20 years ago
So does anyone have a copy of the oft-referenced article by Mike Volonnino in the Harvard Crimson, 'The "V" Spot: Cornell Sucks', 2/3/2000?by billhoward - Hockey
Re: THE GO RED GIRLS - 20 years ago
Very impressive display of school spirit. I think if you made the lettering bolder still it would show up even better on TV or in Sports Illustrated. Is there a small Cornell Big Red Bear decal you could apply, too? You don't want someone to think it's Nebraska Big Red. Think "branding" - Madison Avenue branding, not Ag School that doesn't come off.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell uniforms - 20 years ago
The Sports Bar at the TECO Arena in Florida I think was the official - and unofficial - hangout for Notre Dame fans, it being only two-something months before St. Patrick's Day and they needed to practice for the big day in case they'd forgotten how to hoist a beer mug.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: playoffs - 20 years ago
At large bid for Cornell if it doesn't win the ECAC? Cornell lost too many shoulda-beat-the-bottom-feeders games to get at-large sympathy from the NCAA. Of course, most were early in the sesason. Had it won the last eight in a row going into the playoffs that would have turned heads, for it meant Cornell hadn't lost since January. The 3-0 Union loss broke the streak and said, "Even now, onceby billhoward - Hockey
Cornell uniforms - 20 years ago
Went down to the Everblades Classic. It was like going to Boston for a tournament but a) it was warmer and b) it's nicer crashing at your in-laws' condo that the on floor of some high school friend's MIT frat house. One thing that seems to be a Cornell constant over the decades: They wear the same well-worn pants. They're ripped, they're stitched with coarse black thread, there are gashes on thby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Dave McKee vs. Yann Danis - 20 years ago
McKee would have done better in the ROTY / All ECAC standings if he'd traded six of his one-goal games for three shutouts and three two-goal games. I haven't done the lookup, but who has the most shutouts plus one-goal games this year?by billhoward - Hockey
Re: playoffs - 20 years ago
Indeed, there are a bunch of lowly ranked teams that gave Cornell a scare -- heck, beat Cornell -- during the season. But turn the pairings around: Which of the top four ECAC teams do you think the survivors of the bottom eight would least like to play? The champion Colgate? Lost 4 of the last 5 or something like that Brown? Or runner-up Cornell? You skate into Lynah, recent history seems toby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Fun Numbers from the Regular Season - 20 years ago
Fascinating stuff. Do you have a day job, or did you retire early? <g>by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Panoramic Photos of a Full Lynah? - 20 years ago
Your choices: Get a single shot with an ultrawideangle 35mm camera lens say down around 12mm. It will be a lot but not the whole arena. Stitch a couple digital or film photos together electroncially. If you had a film camera and motor drive you could do it so quickly the player movement on ice would be minimimized. Try for the anthem when nobody's moving. (Or using Photoshop drop into the centeby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Union No-Goal - 20 years ago
I have the Panasonic DVD RAM recorder without the hard disk. Spend the extra bucks and get the one with the hard disk. It's vastly more versatile.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Pager update on Cornell scores? - 20 years ago
Thanks for the updates. It made my day.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Pager update on Cornell scores? - 20 years ago
Well, if anyone feels hospitable, I'd love to get an end of period update at billhoward@vtext.com - just an email to that address with the score in the subject line. Thanks.by billhoward - Hockey
Pager update on Cornell scores? - 20 years ago
Does Cornell have an end-of-period pager notification of scores? I have to attend a friend's 40th birthday instead of listening in on Clarkson and unfortunately the place doesn't have Web access.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: The Next Vesce Chooses Harvard - 20 years ago
Still hurts that Chris Higgins chose Yale.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Fri 2/20: Cornell 2 at RPI 0, 3rd - 20 years ago
McKee is going to lead the nation in shutouts and almost-shutouts.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Fri 2/20: Cornell 1 at RPI 0, 3rd - 20 years ago
RPI announcer must be excited seeing real hockey.by billhoward - Hockey