The Sad Thread: Worst Losses in Cornell History

[Beeeej]

I remember this stretch well.  My father (RPI '54) came up for the weekend.  Losing that game would have been bad enough without sitting next to the only guy in Section B cheering for RPI.  The quarterfinals were 10-3 and 8-1 romps over Colgate made memorable by the two drunk Colgate students in the back of section F that tried to start a fight over "Go Start The Bus" on the second night.  I bought tickets for Boston but became so debilitated by mono I couldn't go.  Good times.

Wasn't one of those glorious romps over Colgate the source of the "We Want Weder" chant?

EDIT:  Never mind, I realized that Weder was several years later, in a different romp against Colgate.

[andyw2100]

you're missing a big one. this one was really rough, 2ot:

http://www.tbrw.info/seasons/2002/box20020316.html

Yeah.  That was horrible.  

I'm coming to this thread late, but after reading the initial post my first thought was "where's the 2002 ECAC championship game loss to Harvard?"

Another reason that loss clearly needs to be on the list is just how much sweeter the following year's win over Harvard was because of it.

[upprdeck]

does brown 2011 count?

[Josh '99]

1/9/67 loss to Yale. The only loss that year.
2/2/72 loss to Clarkson. Ending a 63 game home winning streak.

Don't RPI fans also like to celebrate some significant win over us ending some sort of streak in that same ballpark?  Our overall (not just home) winning streak in '71, perhaps?

The late Bob Stagat used to talk about a signed hockey stick he got from the RPI players (many of whom he had tutored shortly before), the stick that scored the winning goal.

Wait, Bob Saget died?  Shit, now we're never going to find out how he met his wife.

[Josh '99]

The 9-0 loss to BU at Lynah, mentioned above, was truly a disaster. I think it broke a very long home unbeaten streak for Cornell-- I was then a junior, had attened every game and had never seen us lose at home. I believe the prior home loss had been to Yale-- a game also mentioned above in this thread as our only regular season loss that year, to which Cornell responded by beating Yale 18-1 in New Haven at their next meeting.

I was also at the 5-4 loss to Wisconsin in Boston when we had been ahead 4-0; that was quite painful, but beating slaughtered by BU in Lynah was just bizarre. I remember reading somewhere that when the score came over the wire at least one editor called to make sure it wasn't a misprint.

Cornell lost to Yale at Lynah in January of 1967. It didn't lose again at Lynah until a 4-2 defeat at the hands of Clarkson in February of 1972. The BU loss came in December of 1972, so the 63-game home-ice winning streak had already been broken.

The classes of '67, '68, '69 and '70 experienced the loss to Yale. The classes of '72, '73, '74 and '75 experienced the loss to Clarkson. The only class to go through four years at Cornell and never see the team lose at home was the class of 1971.

My class.

Well now you're just bragging.  :-}

[Josh '99]

It may not have been so significant or even heart-breaking, but the almost-comeback at the Gut in 1997 (the Elves' senior year) was pretty epic.

AKA the stick check game, if I'm not mistaken.

[flyersgolf]

Cornell vs. Brown  2.25.2011

[Trotsky]

It may not have been so significant or even heart-breaking, but the almost-comeback at the Gut in 1997 (the Elves' senior year) was pretty epic.

AKA the stick check game, if I'm not mistaken.

IIRC we won the stick check game, because Gilligan said some shit like "well, if they want to win THAT WAY..."  Yeah, Mike.  By playing by the rules...

[Give My Regards]

IIRC we won the stick check game, because Gilligan said some shit like "well, if they want to win THAT WAY..."  Yeah, Mike.  By playing by the rules...

No, the Big Red lost that game 7-5, making Gilligan's post-game comments even more bull-crap.  He said something about there being a "gentleman's agreement" among coaches that there wouldn't be any stick-checking, since it was well-known that most, if not all, players were using sticks that were measurably illegal.  And the complaining went on from there.  The Vermont assistant coach went off on even more of a rant; I don't remember exactly what was said, but I do remember that he kept bringing up the whole situation three or four days later.  BTW, that was Roger Grillo, who later went on to fail -- I mean, coach -- well, let's be honest, fail -- at Brown.