Cornell-BU @ Madison Square Garden Sat. 11/24/07

[billhoward]

Announcement at the weekend's Cornell Association of Class Officers (CACO) meeting in Philadelphia: Cornell will play Boston University Saturday, Nov. 24, 2007 at 8 pm at Madison Square Garden.

There's a for-more-information address, Jeffrey Hall, 607-255-6680, jwh33@cornell.edu, but that's for info on hospitality and sponsorship opportunities.

[Edit add] No there has been no publicity from MSG on this yet. But it's a bigger thing for us and BU than for MSG. It is not, I don't believe, part of a doubleheader. Cornell U and classes are planning activities around the game. And no announcement of who's the home team and gets to wear white and change lines last ... nor if this is part of a two- or three-year deal and if so where the other games are.

[Trotsky]

Sweet.  There with bells on.  ::burnout::

[Rich S]

Has there been an official announcement or publicity from mSG on this game yet?

[judy]

This much advance notice certainly makes Thanksgiving travel planning a lot easier.

[Beeeej]

Pre-game party at Beeeej's!

[Jordan 04]

Didn't think I'd ever be able to hop on the A to get to a Cornell game.

Looking forward to it!

[marty]

Is this Cornell's first game their since the holiday tourney in '74 (or was it early '75?)?

[jkahn]

[quote marty]Is this Cornell's first game their since the holiday tourney in '74?[/quote]
We played in a holiday tournament at MSG in Jan. 1976.

[Rich S]

[quote jkahn][quote marty]Is this Cornell's first game their since the holiday tourney in '74?[/quote]
We played in a holiday tournament at MSG in Jan. 1976.[/quote]

Do I recall that the above-mentioned was the last Holiday Hockey Festival at MSG? Or was the last one played in December '77 ?

This is great news and perhaps if attendance is great, the ECAC and HE will try to work with MSG to start a new holiday tournament.

I'll plan to attend this game and would go to a new tournament whoever the teams are.

[Rich S]

Bill,

I'll try to find out more info from my contact at MSG.  Hopefully those folks and people at the ECAC and HE think it is a "big deal" for MSG because that attitude will be required if there is to be any hope of a reincarnation of the old Holiday Hockey Festival.

I attended in '70 and '72 and those were excellent tournaments.  Recall that there was a one night (I think) doubleheader scheduled at the Garden a few years back (RPI was in it and BU ?, I forgot the others) but MSG moved it to the Hartford Civic Center to make room for another night for Billy Joel.

[ursusminor]

[quote jkahn][quote marty]Is this Cornell's first game their since the holiday tourney in '74?[/quote]
We played in a holiday tournament at MSG in Jan. 1976.[/quote] The last one was apparently in January 1977. http://www.augenblick.org/chha/i_ecacny.html. They must have had trouble getting schools to participate since they invited Bowdoin.

[billhoward]

Let's hope the turnout is great and it convinces MSG to move forward on a bid for the NCAA Frozen Four now that the Olympics aren't going to be gracing New York City. Lord knows where students and alums would find affordable hotel space, but they won't lack for things to do.

A couple Cornell alums work for firms that have luxury boxes. I believe the deal is for any event at the garden (except presidential conventions), the luxury box holder has rights to use the box. (I think you still have to buy an admission ticket to the event for each person using the box.) Time to suck up to your NYC-based Fortune 500-executive classmates.

[Liz '05]

[quote billhoward]Lord knows where students and alums would find affordable hotel space, but they won't lack for things to do.[/quote]

There are plenty of students from the NYC area, and even more recent alums.  I can't believe that any student would have a problem finding a place to stay, and if they want a hotel room, they won't care about splitting it 7 ways.  Like I did in Florida

[Beeeej]

[quote Liz '05][quote billhoward]Lord knows where students and alums would find affordable hotel space, but they won't lack for things to do.[/quote]

There are plenty of students from the NYC area, and even more recent alums.  I can't believe that any student would have a problem finding a place to stay, and if they want a hotel room, they won't care about splitting it 7 ways.  Like I did in Florida [/quote]

The hotels in NYC are a lot more likely to care about such things - and frankly most hotel rooms in NYC wouldn't even fit seven people lying on the floor.

But you're right, chances are very good there'll be plenty of non-hotel places for Cornellians to stay this November and for any future NYC Frozen Four.

[Rich S]

Bowdoin also played in the '70 event.  Their game vs Calrkson wa sthe first hockey game I ever saw there.

I don't recall that their presence was due to a lack of interest on the part of other teams.  Bowdoin was a pretty strong D2 team at the time as I recall.