ELynah Forum

An interesting project. As a 1973(!) graduate, I feel that like a game of telephone, or that Star Trek episode with the Coms and the Yangs, some of the cheers have become garbled over the decades. The one I miss most is the cheer after we score, which went ONE! WE WANT MORE, hopefully followed by ONE! TWO! WE WANT MORE,, etc. This was done slowly and deliberately, so the full impact of our scoring prowess could be absorbed by our adversary.
Over the last decade(?), the words are said,  but without any understanding why, IMHO.
As for RED, I always thought we stole it from someone else, maybe Colgate. It was not done during my era.

One funny anecdote. At the first game at MSG on Thanksgiving weekend, maybe 10 or so years ago. The Garden had some guy on hand to sing the Star Spangled Banner. No one had bothered to tell him about our little tradition, and so when he got to rockets red glare, and the place erupted with RED, he literally stopped for several beats while he tried to figure out WTF. A highlight of the evening.

I believe the 1968 Yale game was in New Haven, and was essentially Cornell's revenge for breaking Cornell's 7 year(?) winning streak at Lynch with a 3-2 win the prior year. This game ended up 18-1, Cornell.

I hadn't thought of the identity theft possibility. My assumption was that schools were embarrassed to reveal that they had freshmen hockey players who were the age of typical seniors.

Just curious. I am old enough to remember when hockey programs listed each player's DOB and High School. Now it just says something like "last team." I know it is now "market" for players to have a year or so of postgrad experience, but can anyone shed light on how this evolved? Would Dick Bertrand (as player, not coach) be out of place these days arriving at 24? Is hockey the only college sport where this is
done? Thanks!

Yes, three of them might show up— if they have kids at Cornell.

I heard yesterday at the Cornell club in nyc that the msg game will be against the hedge fund which happens to operate a university located in Cambridge, mass. Hopefully the fulton fish market delivers.

I read the other day that the UNH hockey coach is the highest salary of any NH state employee. I know it's a small state, and they're not much on football or basketball, but still....

Was it me, or did it seem that the BU band was playing all the time and that ours was all but silent? Not thrilled about the outcome, but it has really become a great Cornell event.

I don't know, but it has sure been a pleasant surprise. Weren't we ranked below the Sisters of Mercy preseason (in hockey, not goodness).

This year was just so disappointing. Next year, please hurry up and get here.

Agree with idea of donating to the library. Two years ago, I gave them my program from the game at Harvard where the bums put the live chicken inadvertently elenbaas's goal.

I plead guilty to being a late arrival. We've gone to all the MSG games but one-- including the tournament in 1969 which Cornell won 9-0 and 7-2 v. RPI and Clarkson. Anyway, we've used the games as an excuse to meet friends for a great holiday dinner and they sometimes just run late. To quote another Cornellian, "So it goes."

There seems to be very little interest in this game. The person at the Cornell Club in NYC asked me if I needed additional ticks. For every other one of these games, she would go around and beg for extras.

Does anyone know about this penn state team?  

I do know the school is sports crazy, having been there for football games.

I seem to remember that Brian cropper was the goalie for the undefeated season, no?

I wasn't thinking about losing. But if we have to lose I would prefer we not look like the Delta House at the Homecoming Parade-- even if we are on double-secret probation.