Harvard 4, Cornell 3, Final

[ithacat]

Two of the Havard goals are shown in this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOvTEKgUr2g

Killer...great nickname for Killorn.

I take great offense to that.  Let him be Killjoy or Roadkillorn.

With apologies.

[Killer]

Accepted.  :-)

Now let's hope that if we see him again, our guys do make roadkill of him.

[BigRedHockeyFan]

Extended video of the game here:

http://www.ecachockey.com/men/members/cornell/20112202_BigRedFaceoffEpisode5

[imafrshmn]

A few years ago, while I was still a student jammed into the Section A sardine case, a couple superfans in the section (BMac, I'm talking to you!!) did a nice little instructional skit before the game in front of everyone where they held up signs demonstrating the proper etiquette (have everyone hold up their newspapers while the fish are thrown so nobody will get caught) and time (once only, when H takes the ice for intros!) for the tradition.  And it worked.  The fact remains that the student faithful themselves need to take up the job of self-policing and organizing to preserve traditions and such, and not get in trouble and not hurt the team.  Let this year be a lesson for the future and you'll be fine.

[BigRedHockeyFan]

A few years ago, while I was still a student jammed into the Section A sardine case, a couple superfans in the section (BMac, I'm talking to you!!) did a nice little instructional skit before the game in front of everyone where they held up signs demonstrating the proper etiquette (have everyone hold up their newspapers while the fish are thrown so nobody will get caught) and time (once only, when H takes the ice for intros!) for the tradition.  And it worked.  The fact remains that the student faithful themselves need to take up the job of self-policing and organizing to preserve traditions and such, and not get in trouble and not hurt the team.  Let this year be a lesson for the future and you'll be fine.

The lesson is never remembered from one year to the next.  The only way to stop the fish problem is to have the team and the head coach make a public appeal to the fans.  Both could get on the ice before the game and ask the fans to be civil and just let the teams play hockey.

[redice]

A few years ago, while I was still a student jammed into the Section A sardine case, a couple superfans in the section (BMac, I'm talking to you!!) did a nice little instructional skit before the game in front of everyone where they held up signs demonstrating the proper etiquette (have everyone hold up their newspapers while the fish are thrown so nobody will get caught) and time (once only, when H takes the ice for intros!) for the tradition.  And it worked.  The fact remains that the student faithful themselves need to take up the job of self-policing and organizing to preserve traditions and such, and not get in trouble and not hurt the team.  Let this year be a lesson for the future and you'll be fine.

The lesson is never remembered from one year to the next.  The only way to stop the fish problem is to have the team and the head coach make a public appeal to the fans.  Both could get on the ice before the game and ask the fans to be civil and just let the teams play hockey.

Great idea!!  The only problem is that most of the students don't arrive for the game until just before or after the opening faceoff..I guess they have something more important to do..::whistle::.So, the appeal would largely be heard by the townies who are already sitting in their seats and know enough to not throw crap on the ice...

[Andy Dodd]

I mean, it should be obvious if you take any time to listen to cowbell that it is a constant-tempo cheer and that if you don't hear the cowbell speed up, you probably shouldn't either - However section F would always speed up their clapping throughout the cheer last year.  (One of my coworkers described it as "sever clock drift" - we're both engineers...)  Not being able to hear the cowbell wasn't an excuse for them, I was able to hear the cowbell clearly in section G.  Being lagged/out of sync is excusable (speed of sound - always a challenge for musicians which is why you're supposed to always watch the conductor in a band, but F can't see B), but F's tempo increase is not.

I'll work on increasing the cowbell's speed of sound in the upcoming weeks! I'll keep you posted! ::crazy::

Dude, watching hockey while underwater would be interesting but not fun!  

Anyway, even if you solved the classic lag problem (and made millions in the process), there is the fact that in F they just plain ignore your tempo and clap faster anyway.  (At least last year they did. )

I'll admit, I probably would have missed a pregame announcement in most cases - I often wind up late to my townie seats (Work on Friday + 45 minute drive = dammit! )

I agree - the refs were incredibly lenient.  It's almost expected they'll let it slide during the traditional time (traditions + army of cleanup crew ready to go + plenty of time for the cleanup crew to finish without actually delaying the game), but after the first and second goals, fish were thrown that WERE game-delaying, we got lucky not to get a delay of game called for those.

[Robb]

after the first and second goals, fish were thrown that WERE game-delaying, we got lucky not to get a delay of game called for those.

In retrospect, perhaps it would have been better if we had gotten a penalty after one of the earlier goals - at least we would have had more time to re-compose ourselves afterward, anyway....