Happy Randy Wilson Day!

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

I am fairly sure the corners are the same since it would take major construction to alter them.  The boards are approximately the same height as they are now but the glass was way shorter back then.  That's why it was so easy for fans to swarm over them to celebrate.  It also made it easy for the guy to climb over the glass carrying a live chicken to greet the Harvard goalie when he skated out for the 2nd/3rd period [can't remember which since the home team end of the rink has changed at least once since I have been watching Cornell hockey].

They aren't exactly the same because there was a door in front of Section G.

[finchphil]

35 years

[Trotsky]

This thread is so old the box score link points to an architecture that's years out of date.  Here's the new one.

And the video link: Good times.

[billhoward]

35 years. Back then, Cornell students must have been shorter. The fans are on their feet, stomping and cheering, and not one obstructs the camera.

[Larry72]

The cameras were placed a bit higher and no top two to three rows of seats.  The glass was much lower then -- easier to climb over.  Roy Ives (the radio voice of the Big Red back then) stopped over at our shop a few weeks ago. He's doing fine and gets to a number of Cornell games each season along with his son and grandson.

[ScrewBUHarvardtoo]

Happy Randy Wilson Day everybody! Would have loved to be there for that. Here's a new article from the Big Red Sports Network about that great day 36 years ago: http://bigredsportsnetwork.org/?p=1593

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Happy Randy Wilson Day everybody! Would have loved to be there for that. Here's a new article from the Big Red Sports Network about that great day 36 years ago: http://bigredsportsnetwork.org/?p=1593

I was there.  Thanks for bringing back the memory of the best period and a quarter of hockey I've ever seen.

I can't say it was the best game I've ever seen since I missed the first two periods for a Chem 208 exam.

[Jim Hyla]

Thanks

[cbuckser]

Happy Randy Wilson Day everybody! Would have loved to be there for that. Here's a new article from the Big Red Sports Network about that great day 36 years ago: http://bigredsportsnetwork.org/?p=1593

I was there.  Thanks for bringing back the memory of the best period and a quarter of hockey I've ever seen.

I can't say it was the best game I've ever seen since I missed the first two periods for a Chem 208 exam.

For years, I had thought that you ditched the prelim for the hockey game.

[Roy 82]

Happy Randy Wilson Day everybody! Would have loved to be there for that. Here's a new article from the Big Red Sports Network about that great day 36 years ago: http://bigredsportsnetwork.org/?p=1593

I was there.  Thanks for bringing back the memory of the best period and a quarter of hockey I've ever seen.

I can't say it was the best game I've ever seen since I missed the first two periods for a Chem 208 exam.

For years, I had thought that you ditched the prelim for the hockey game.

Ditto. I remember the score of the game. I have no idea what grade I got in Chem 208.

[redice]

That WAS the greatest sporting event that I've ever attended.

I will never forget the euphoria that came with Nethery & Gemmell's goals.   Unbelievable.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Happy Randy Wilson Day everybody! Would have loved to be there for that. Here's a new article from the Big Red Sports Network about that great day 36 years ago: http://bigredsportsnetwork.org/?p=1593

I was there.  Thanks for bringing back the memory of the best period and a quarter of hockey I've ever seen.

I can't say it was the best game I've ever seen since I missed the first two periods for a Chem 208 exam.

For years, I had thought that you ditched the prelim for the hockey game.

Ditto. I remember the score of the game. I have no idea what grade I got in Chem 208.

I tried really hard (along with about a dozen other studenhts) to get the exam re-scheduled, or to take a make-up exam, but Professor Fay was a real dick and wouldn't move it or allow a make-up.  Once in the room, I let the TA's know repeatedly I had a hockey game to get to.  I tried to get them to start the exam early in my session, but they wouldn't (and they were pissed at Fay for making them miss the game, too).   I even hummed "O Canada" during the exam at 7:30 as they passed out the tests.  I breezed through the exam in about an hour, handed in my test, and rushed to Lynah, only to find the lights out, the game stopped...and the score 3-1 Providence.

The rest, as they say, is history.

I got an A on the prelim and in Chem 208.  I am, after all, a ChemE.

[Iceberg]

Of course, the Providence coach in that game was Lou Lamoriello...who is currently behind the New Jersey Devils bench (for now).

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Of course, the Providence coach in that game was Lou Lamoriello...who is currently behind the New Jersey Devils bench (for now).

"Shut up, Lou!  Shut up, Lou!"

Actually I read somewhere (maybe here?) that he said that game was the best game he'd ever seen, too, even though he was on the losing end.

[jtwcornell91]

Of course, the Providence coach in that game was Lou Lamoriello...who is currently behind the New Jersey Devils bench (for now).

Also behind the creation of Hockey (L)East if I'm not mistaken.