New Colgate Arena

[KeithK]

I personally value the season by getting to the playoffs. As 80 showed, get there and you can have a lot of fun.

Great!  We'll never have a bad year again!!!

[Give My Regards]

Obviously no one is old enough to remember the 1959-60 season, in which the Big Red won the first game and the last game... and lost the 19 in-between.  Even the 1992-93 horror show pales in comparison to that.

Although, just to relate this to the thread topic, Cornell did beat Colgate that year...

[French Rage]

Obviously no one is old enough to remember the 1959-60 season, in which the Big Red won the first game and the last game... and lost the 19 in-between.  Even the 1992-93 horror show pales in comparison to that.

Although, just to relate this to the thread topic, Cornell did beat Colgate that year...

Back then, Colgate gave its students free "Italian cheese and sauce disks", the term pizza not have been coined until 1968.

[David Harding]

Obviously no one is old enough to remember the 1959-60 season, in which the Big Red won the first game and the last game... and lost the 19 in-between.  Even the 1992-93 horror show pales in comparison to that.

Although, just to relate this to the thread topic, Cornell did beat Colgate that year...

I do remember that season.  I had started attending games sporadically two years earlier and listened to games on the radio.  The difference is, of course, that Cornell had never had a seriously good season before, so there were no expectations of grandeur.  Usually the phrase is "hit rock bottom", which implies that you were once higher.  You can argue that 2-19-0 is worse than the 4-16-0 and 3-7-1 that preceded it, but I would claim that '59-'60 was a small statistical fluctuation.

[Jim Hyla]

To pull this back to Colgate, does anyone know where this arena will be placed?

[billhoward]

Trustees Approve Design Phase for New Athletic Facility according to an October 2013 Colgate release. The approval was to get going on a design, not of a design that's already been done. (They've done an artist sketch.) Over the summer Colgate said it had $24 million in hand of the $37 million needed. The replacement hockey rink will have a similar capacity to Starr Rink, 2200 souls for a school with a student population of 3,000. A year for the design and a year to build, with no complications, they might be ready to be in their new digs in 2016-2017. Bet they will install a new compressor, not used.

That's what I gleaned from news stories and Colgate releases.