Quick Question

[CowbellGuy]

They are. No fans can have noisemakers according to the rules. I suppose the band doesn't fall under the "fans" category or none of them could play their instruments. So as long as it's the band, I guess they can use their 427 or whatever cowbells to do their only cheer.

[CowbellGuy]

Chris '03 wrote:
one thunder stick is not a noise maker.

I dunno. They make a pretty satisfying thud when you hit annoying Brown fans with one.

[adamw]

Thunderstix are against NCAA rules, actually.  No artificial noisemakers are allowed to be used during play.

[jtwcornell91]

Adam Wodon wrote:
Thunderstix are against NCAA rules, actually.  No artificial noisemakers are allowed to be used during play.

Unless they're drums and your schools initials are "CU" but you're not Cornell. ::rolleyes::

[dss28]

This is all during play, it seems.  I suppose once the whistle is blown, all bets are off?

[Josh '99]

dss28 wrote:
This is all during play, it seems.  I suppose once the whistle is blown, all bets are off?

I'm not entirely sure, but I do know that even during stoppages, ThunderStix are still lame.   ::nut::

[Chris \'03]

[q]This is all during play, it seems. I suppose once the whistle is blown, all bets are off?[/q]

In hockey yes. It varies by sport though. In Women's Lax for example, artificial noise makers are only permitted during halftime and I believe timeouts. Goals and penalties are not stoppages for which noisemakers are allowed.

[Mike Hedrick 01]

So, should we have gotten a penalty for the Supermom Sucks noisemakers?  :-)

[rhovorka]

Mike Hedrick '01 wrote:

So, should we have gotten a penalty for the Supermom Sucks noisemakers?  :-)

Yep.  Those big plastic horns that some fans bring in are also technically against the rules.  But I would expect refs to call such things only if it really disrupts the game.  I'd like to see the riot that ensues if Cornell is penalized 2 minutes because of that one guy in D who brought a horn or the pep band finished a cheer after the puck was dropped.

As most of you know this rule was put in place because of RPI's "BIG RED" *chortle* Freakout (can never say that with a straight face) game in 1987 when the gifts were those plastic horns.  5000 fans were making deafening noise with them during play.

[Pete]

Were there penalties for the tennis balls last night?  Looks like there are two delay of game penalties right after each of Darmouth's goals, so I'm assuming that they were called for it...USCHO is frozen right now so I can't get the recap

[Chris 02]

[q]As most of you know this rule was put in place because of RPI's "BIG RED" *chortle* Freakout (can never say that with a straight face) game in 1987 when the gifts were those plastic horns. 5000 fans were making deafening noise with them during play.[/q]

Wow, I think I remember this game.  I must have been 8 or so.  (My dad is a '72 grad of RPI so he took me to the games in my youth...I have since changed my primary ECAC hockey affliation.  He recalls those first couple years when he followed hockey....RPI never had it much then, except he remembers attending the RPI win over Cornell that ended their winning streak following the undefeated season...but this is another story).

Anyhow the game was so loud...and at the end, when RPI scored an ENG, most of the crowd threw the horns on the ice.  I think they were playing SLU, and the game ended up a forfeit.  I think I might still have the horn in the basement someplace, but it's likely gone now.

Anyone else having weird issues with this one thread...like it's not wrapping the text at all and just strings out to the right?

[rhovorka]

Chris '02 wrote:

Anyhow the game was so loud...and at the end, when RPI scored an ENG, most of the crowd threw the horns on the ice.  I think they were playing SLU, and the game ended up a forfeit.  I think I might still have the horn in the basement someplace, but it's likely gone now.

This page chronicles the "gifts" and game results through the years:
http://www.augenblick.org/rpi/h_brf.html

I think it was the game with the megaphones where they all ended on the ice, but there is suprisingly little about the history available on the web.

[q]Anyone else having weird issues with this one thread...like it's not wrapping the text at all and just strings out to the right?[/q]
It's because Bill Fenwick quoted the rulebook using the pre-formatted tag and there were no carriage returns.  That stretches out the width of this thread.

[Dart~Ben]

[q]Were there penalties for the tennis balls last night? Looks like there are two delay of game penalties right after each of Darmouth's goals, so I'm assuming that they were called for it...USCHO is frozen right now so I can't get the recap[/q]

Yes and no. Hansen called a penalty after the first goal for the tennis balls, even though there were only ~50 thrown rather than the normal hundreds/1000+.

The 2nd delay of game penalty was called because some fucking idiot (pardon my french) threw a coke on the ice after Jessiman tied it up at 2 with 2 minutes to go.

[atb9]

Did he start snorting the ice?  It certainly seems like that head case is coked up...  :-P

[Dart~Ben]

No but he had a monster weekend, GTG on Friday, 3 points including the GWG on Saturday. And he even managed to hustle and play some defense.  ::twitch::  ::twitch::