I'm trying to use TBRW to figure out the last perfect Lynah season (RS and playoffs, combined). To no avail, however...I can't put the info together well enough, unsure as to where some of the playoff losses in the early 70's and late 60s took place.
So for all you that know this without batting an eye, when was the last perfect Lynah season? 71? 70? ::help::
Argh. The forum refuses to let me log in, for some reason, so I can't edit.
Perfect, obviously, meaning unbeaten and untied.
The correct page is "W-L-T Breakdown, Complex" off the History home page. I know, I'll make it more intuitive.
The direct link is: http://www.spiritone.com/~kepler/cornellHistory/breakdown.htm
The answer is....
oh, crap. The answer is that I've only done that breakdown since 1985. Ok, I have something to do for the next few days.
However, here's a fun stat. The seniors were 41-6-6 .830 overall in their careers at Lynah.
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Well, I did a quick check (i.e. I'm doing this quickly so I could be wrong). it looks like the last perfect season was all the way back in 70-71 when we went 13-0-0 at Lynah including the one QF game. Strictly speaking I think the team lost an exhibition game at home that year to the US National Team, so the last perfect season is sort of 1970.
72-73 was damn close. We were 14-0-1 that year at home with the only blemish being a 1-1 tie with Penn. Well, there was that 9-0 drubbing at the hands of BU, but that goes into the books as a win by forfeit...
Also of note is 77-78. We had a undefeated season going that year: 13-0-1 with the only blemish a January tie to Providence. Then the damn Friars had to go and knock us off in the ECAC Qfs in Lynah (first Lynah playoff loss ever).
QuoteKeith K '93 wrote: Well, there was that 9-0 drubbing at the hands of BU, but that goes into the books as a win by forfeit...
What is the story there?
BU had an ineligible player named Dick Decloe, who was turned in by the new Cornell AD, Jon Anderson (a Dartmouth grad, and not the Cornell Olympic marathoner of the same name), and forfeited many games as a result. Not a proud moment in either team's hockey history, I regret to say.
BU simply crushed us in a game that was televised back to Boston, I think by WGBH public television. I couldn't believe what I was seeing on the little TV screen.
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Decloe had played tier 1 Jr. A hockey before coming to BU, which was not allowed by ECAC or NCAA rules at the time. My recollection was that Harvard took a lead role in turning them in. I also watched that 9-0 game on TV. PBS ran an ECAC game of the week series on Saturday afternoon - I watched on Channel 13 in NY.
Decloe had played half the season, and with the forfeits BU would have been the #8 seed (maybe 7) for the ECAC's. The committee decided it would be unfair to the higher seeds to have them play a strong BU team early in the tournament, and so they seeded them #4. I never understood why they didn't make them #5 so they at least wouldn't have a home game. Surprisingly, Penn crushed BU at BU, something like 7-3 or 8-4 in the first round.
Keith, you are right, 70-71 was it, as listed in the game program for this RIP series.
Bob Kane, in Good Sports, wrote: "In January 1973, he [Jon Anderson] turned in a Boston University hockey player, Dick Decloe, to the Eastern College Athletic Conference, claiming some of his educational expenses were paid when he played for the Junior A London, Ontario, Knights while living in London during their season."
Apparently the violation was not playing Junior A, but having his "nonresident taxes" at a London secondary school paid by the Knights. Anderson later alleged that the reason he did it was to try to get Cornell's Peter Titanic, who had been declared ineligible by the ECAC the season before for the same reason, his eligibility back.
In an earlier thread we discussed great hockey names. I'm not sure on which side I'd put Titanic.
Penn beat BU 7-3 that year. BU forefeited 11 wins.
9-0 wasn't nearly the worst college beating of that season. Dayton beat Miami 22-2, and Plymouth State beat St. Francis 24-2.
It was Harvard that turned us in regarding Titanic's eligibilty. Gene Kinasewich, former Harvard player, was working in the AD's office, and I remember that he played a key role. Ironically, Kinasewich younger brother Bob was Cornell '67, and played wing on Murray Death's line.