We want more.....

[Hy Potenuse]

I am Cornell '73 and was actually at the game where Dave Elenbaas had the chicken thrown at him. (It was intercession.)

I now subscribe and can watch the Red on tv and saw the Harvard game which was great. It was also fun to be updated on the cheers, since I am thirty years out of date and will be at the Brown game on Jan 20.

So what happened to "We Want More"? Whenever Cornell scored its first goal, after "Davy" it was "One. We want more!" Second.. "One, Two. We want more!" You get the idea. For some of the freshmen games against Junior B teams, or Yale, it would be "Five, Ten..."

So when did this disappear? Any chance of bringing it back. It was very good and I think disheartening for our opponents. And the hell is a Quinnipiac?

[Rosey]

It's still there.  It's just hard to hear on the internet/TV, because the crowd isn't enough in sync for it to come through as anything but a muddled mess on the mics.

Kyle

[Hy Potenuse]

Thanks. We were pretty loud with it. By the way, I really like the emphasis on RED in The Star Spangled Banner. When did that start?

[billhoward]

[quote Hy Potenuse]I am Cornell '73 and was actually at the game where Dave Elenbaas had the chicken thrown at him. (It was intercession.)

I now subscribe and can watch the Red on tv and saw the Harvard game which was great. It was also fun to be updated on the cheers, since I am thirty years out of date and will be at the Brown game on Jan 20.

So what happened to "We Want More"? Whenever Cornell scored its first goal, after "Davy" it was "One. We want more!" Second.. "One, Two. We want more!" You get the idea. For some of the freshmen games against Junior B teams, or Yale, it would be "Five, Ten..."

So when did this disappear? Any chance of bringing it back. It was very good and I think disheartening for our opponents. And the hell is a Quinnipiac?[/quote]
Since the chicken-in-the-net thing happened at Harvard, intercession may be equally as good as intersession.

The one-two-we-want-more-cheer lives on, but for the last half-decade, seldom got beyond "...-three-we-want-more" for reasons beyond the control of the fans.

Try to get to some away games, too. Except for Harvard, tickets are almost always available no matter that the rink may declare the games sold out. There is no finer feeling than to be in control of the game in the third period and have Cornell fans start chanting, "This is our house." Assuming we're in control of the game in the third period, unlike, say, at Quinnipiac.

[Dpperk29]

I was told it was right after we started emphasizing 'Knights'...

[French Rage]

[quote Dpperk29]'Knights'...[/quote]

SUCK!

[RedAR]

Also, in the past, I believe the cheer was much slower and deliberate.

one...
two...
three...
we want more!...
sieve...
sieve...
sieve...
it's all your fault


The cheer has sped up quite a bit.
one two three we want more..
sieve sieve sieve sieve sieve sieve sieve sieve..
it's all your fault.

Another change has been the number of "sieves" shouted has been established at 7.

[Hy Potenuse]

Christ, I sound like methuselah (spelled like "intercession"--hey, i was a history major) but the sieve cheer was not original with us. It was a Wisconsin cheer(at least the first time anyone at Cornell had heard it, to my knowledge) and scared the crap out of us in the semi-final game of the nationals in Boston Garden when Wisconsin, down 4-0, beat us 5-4. 1972 or 1973.

[Al DeFlorio]

[quote Hy Potenuse]...but the sieve cheer was not original with us. It was a Wisconsin cheer(at least the first time anyone at Cornell had heard it, to my knowledge) and scared the crap out of us in the semi-final game of the nationals in Boston Garden when Wisconsin, down 4-0, beat us 5-4. 1972 or 1973.[/quote]
Can't disagree with your point, but Bill Murray's unassisted goal in the first minute of the third period gave Cornell a 5-2 lead before the Badgers scored three to tie and eventually win in OT.

[Beeeej]

[quote RedAR]Another change has been the number of "sieves" shouted has been established at 7.[/quote]

Only to the extent that most people, rather than chanting an eighth "sieve," are taking a much-needed breath in anticipation of four "It's all your fault"s.  You can still hear a few people doing an eighth "sieve."

[Rich S]

I don't know where any of the following originated:

1) the "sieve" chant

2) the "it's all your fault" chant

3) the counting of goals scored

I do know that I heard all of them in the '70-'71 season, my freshman year, at Clarkson Arena in Potsdam.

I'm a '74 grad.  How old does that make me?  :-D

[Trotsky]

[quote Hy Potenuse]Thanks. We were pretty loud with it. By the way, I really like the emphasis on RED in The Star Spangled Banner. When did that start?[/quote]

We certainly were not doing it when I was a student (through 1986).  I don't think we were doing it at the 1990 QF against Harvard.  So, sometime just after that, IINM.  I would guess '91 or '92.

[Larry72]

Scary how you guys can remember this stuff.  I had to look it up and I was there!!  It was 1973 and we lost to Wisconsin 6-5 in OT.

[Rich S]

I think Steve Alley was on that Wisco team.

Scary also that I remember that but he rented the house next door to my parents, a few years later when he played for the Whalers farm team (I think) in Binghamton.

Edit:  Yep, he was on that Wisco team.

http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php3?pid=7406

I wish I could remember where my car keys are as well as I recall this minutia.  :-(

[Beeeej]

[quote Rich S]I wish I could remember where my car keys are as well as I recall this minutia.  :-([/quote]

I sure hope they're not in Wisconsin!