forgotten cheer

[CowbellGuy]

Jason Demby '99 wrote:

Jamie had passed the bell down to another junior member of the fraternity who would be around for a few years to carry on the tradition.

Umm... Wasn't he gone after the year he started doing it?

(sorry, I'm catching up on old posts)

[Josh '99]

CowbellGuy wrote:

(sorry, I'm catching up on old posts)

Two months old, in fact.  Holy non sequitur, Batman!  :-P

[CowbellGuy]

Pretty much didn't read anything over the holidays and I make it a point to read all the posts :-D

[jy3]

ok so a couple of things...
sorry if i skipped any of the above messages.

we used to do the arm waving to distract the goalie in B and D when I sat in those sections (senior(2000)/junior years respectively). i just found it fun to be loud and such. who cares if it works. :-)

I agree about the need to actually describe what the goalie is doing when doing the robot goalie cheer. There is nothing like yelling at a goalie to finish his routine when he is trying to stop to not satisfy the crowd. i forget which goalie but one of the goalies toyed with the crowd when it came to drinking the water bottle. was it the infamous goalie who also left his net to taunt the crowd when he thought his team had scored? not sure.

i think that is all :-)

[Greg Berge]

The cowbell is fine with Age.  I say bring back the damn washboard.  For anybody who remembers it (a dramatic lead in to establish a Specteresque Wall fo Noise -- well -- scratching, several full beats prior to the bell entering), it was VERY cool.  I believe Arthur knows exactly how to do it.

[CowbellGuy]

Except with the new fast faceoffs I've usually gotta start right at the whistle and haul ass through it to finish in time for the faceoff.

[Adam \'01]

jy3, I believe you're talking about Nick Boucher....that cocky bastard from Dartmouth.  The game was January 24th, 2000.  See article below:

http://www.uscho.com/recaps/19992000/m/01/24/dc-cor.php

[jy3]

yep i know boucher vacated the net during that game but i wonder if he was the water bottle man too.:-P

[rhovorka]

I seem to remember Maine's Mike Morrison having a great deal of fun with the crowd, and specifically, the remote control cheer.  Not only did he purposely break his skating routine, but also feigned water-drinking.  He went as far as waving his finger at B in a "tsk-tsk" manner when someone would mess up.  That game ended in a 1-1 tie on Nov. 21, 2000.

[gwm3]

Much to the delight of the [rather small Thanksgiving week] Lynah crowd, our goal in that game was scored on a horrible gaffe by Morrison (falling down behind the net, IIRC).

[Adam \'01]

Yeah, I see to remember Morrison trying (from behind the net) to knock the net over on top of the puck as it slid in.  The crowd certainly let him have it for being out of position.

[crodger1]

I was in E that year... I don't think I have seen a more seemingly relaxed goalie in a while.  I was greatly amused by his process of prepping the crease before the start of the 2nd period; he seemed to be just dancing away to the music as he scraped up the ice surface.

He certainly seemed to like the remote control thing a lot.  Of couse, that was back when the crowd knew more than the current three options (skate, turn, bend-over.... bend-over... bend-over... bend-over).  Is it really remote control if you have to yell "bend-over" 8 times?  Talk about boring ::snore::

LGR!

[jtwcornell91]

Yeah, can we work on that this weekend?  Matt Walsh of Clarkson has a great goalie tick where he taps the posts about 500 times per game: "tap, tap, tap, tap..."

[Al DeFlorio]

John T. Whelan '91 wrote:

Matt Walsh of Clarkson has a great goalie tick where he taps the posts about 500 times per game: "tap, tap, tap, tap..."

We may not see Mike Walsh this weekend.  Dustin Traylen has played their last three games.

[Will]

You think Clarkson would dare to start their second string goalie against the #4 team in the country, particularly since Walsh is a fairly good goalie himself?  I don't think so.  Barring any unforeseen circumstances, we'll see Walsh in net this weekend.