1983 Harvard game question

[David Harding]

[Q]Jerseygirl Wrote:

 ...Girls' sports in my area were all about singing on the bus and putting ribbons on each others' ponytails. Ugh. Guys don't pull that kind of crap, do they?
...
-Jers[/q]

When guys do that it's called hazing.  
:-D

[Trotsky]

Or interrogation.

[abmarks]

I asked Shafer about the broken stick thing while he was assistant coaching here.  Specifically I asked iiif the stick had been pre-cut.  HE didn't answer - just grinned.....


 ::nut::

[jeh25]

[Q]Jerseygirl Wrote:
Girls' sports in my area were all about singing on the bus and putting ribbons on each others' ponytails. Ugh. Guys don't pull that kind of crap, do they?[/q]

We had one guy that would sit upfront with the score girls, and then take his jock and cup off *without* removing his shorts.  Think zoolander, but seated, on a school bus, with a sweaty jock. Truly impressive.

Same guy wrote "I'm a dork" and "Kick me" on another dude's scalp with a sharpie just before an away game against Homer. Sharpie dude scrubbed it off that night...using comet. He wasn't so bright. Of course, he also used to drop acid in detention...

No ribbons though.

[Q]Jerseygirl Wrote:
I promise I'll behave.  [/q]

But we like you better when you don't.....

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

I don't remember Oldsie turning the crowd around.  What I do remember is Mark Whitehead throwing a monster check into "Big Jim" Korn at the corner boards.  For you youngsters, think Topher Scott checking Noah Welch or Matt Nickerson.

Regarding Olds and his enforcer role, his nickname in the press was "The Toronto Terror" although he wasn't just an enforcer.  He was a decent player.  My favorite Olds move came in the last '79 regular season game against Northeastern.  Olds checked two NU players simultaneously in the corner near the doors in section G.   Both were taken out of the play, and one of them fell to his knees.  What the ref and most of the crowd couldn't see was that Olds threw an uppercut as he hit the player - that's what made him crumple.  Classic Oldsie.

[Hillel Hoffmann]

[Q]Jeff Hopkins '82 Wrote: Regarding Olds and his enforcer role, his nickname in the press was "The Toronto Terror" although he wasn't just an enforcer.  He was a decent player. [/q]
Yes. Way more than decent. That is a great story, Jeff. Thanks.

If someone forced me to make a 24-man all-Cornell roster of players from my years as a (conscious) fan -- and I'm talking about a "real" team, not just guys who piled up the points and thus have an inflated post-CU reputation -- then I'd pick Olds in a heartbeat. And I'd pick him even if he'd racked up only half the points he got (more than 30 a year!). A great player, a Lynah favorite, a personal favorite.

[Aside: Man, wouldn't it have been great to have Whitehead for four years? The legacy of those Penn transfers has been SO underrated.]

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

It's hard to compare points then and now.  We scored double digit goals in a few games while I was there.  I can't imagine that happening any more.

I would have liked to have Whitehead for four years, too.  He was a player with a lot of heart.

[calgARI '07]

Varteressian definitely the primary enforcer of this team.  Hynes really showed a lot this weekend in coming to Moulson's defense on Friday.  Sawada next in line.

[Hillel Hoffmann]

[Q]Jeff Hopkins '82 Wrote: It's hard to compare points then and now.  We scored double digit goals in a few games while I was there.  I can't imagine that happening any more.[/q]

True. Here's a better way to look at it: Despite being one of Cornell's most effective enforcers ever, Olds was usually among the team's top scorers. I think he was top 3 or 4 in his senior year ... on a team with Kerling and the like, as I recall.

[Trotsky]

I was very lucky to see Olds play.  He was one of those rare guys, like Schafer, who when he was on the ice made the whole rest of the team skate faster, hit harder, somehow be prouder.  Another was Brad Chartrand.  They are few and far between -- incredible, natural, effective leaders.

I'd put Olds on my all-time-seen team, too, and I'd have him on the ice in the final minute of a tight game.

[Howard]

The stick was already broken when he brought it out for the Harvard game that year (1983).  He told me that when we spoke around 2 years later.