Q Postgame

[jtn27]

By New Haven-area teams, I met Yale and Q in same season. I know we don't play them on the same weekend.

Why don't we play them the same weekend? It would make much more sense for them to be travel partners (which would then mean Princeton is with Brown). I assume it has something to do with the fact that QU is the most recent addition to the conference. Who did Princeton travel with before then?

[Trotsky]

By New Haven-area teams, I met Yale and Q in same season. I know we don't play them on the same weekend.

Why don't we play them the same weekend? It would make much more sense for them to be travel partners (which would then mean Princeton is with Brown). I assume it has something to do with the fact that QU is the most recent addition to the conference. Who did Princeton travel with before then?

Travel partnerships since the beginning of the partnership system in 84-85.

[jtwcornell91]

By New Haven-area teams, I met Yale and Q in same season. I know we don't play them on the same weekend.

Why don't we play them the same weekend? It would make much more sense for them to be travel partners (which would then mean Princeton is with Brown). I assume it has something to do with the fact that QU is the most recent addition to the conference. Who did Princeton travel with before then?

Before Quinnipiac replaced Vermont, the travel partnerships were Princeton/Yale, Brown/Harvard and Dartmouth/Vermont (the other three were as they are now).

Before Union replaced Army, the travel partnerships were Princeton/Army, Yale/Brown (as now), Harvard/Dartmouth (as now) and Vermont/RPI (the other two were as they are now).

It's a pity there's no Yale/Quinnipiac travel partnership (now that they don't have to take turns using the same rink), but Princeton as a geographical outlier messes things up.  I actually wrote a script to check once, and the current arrangement does indeed minimize total travel time (by one minute), although swapping Princeton and Yale as you suggest would minimize travel distance.  (My preferred pairing, which pairs Princeton with Dartmouth, Yale with Quinnipiac, and Brown with Harvard, comes in fourth, 12 minutes slower.)

[Trotsky]

Add Penn, drop Dartmouth.  

[marty]

Two questions for the eLynah faithful:
1) Does anyone know the last time we swept the two New Haven-area teams on the road?

Last January:

Fri, Jan 7, 2011     @ Princeton University     1-2 (W)
Sat, Jan 8, 2011     @ Quinnipiac University     2-3 (W) OT

Princeton is in New Jersey. Princeton is in New Jersey.

Do the Faithful use this as a cheer?

One of our family's most memorable trips to Lynah were for the Yale at Cornell ECAC round in 2002.  We had been too busy to make our yearly trip and when faced with the prospect of no Lynah time, called the ticket office which thankfully sold us four seats.

During one of the two nights the sing-song "Yale is in New Haven, Yale is in New Haven" rang through the rink.  And I can still rankle my lovely wife with an encore rendition, ten years later.

[Jim Hyla]

Two questions for the eLynah faithful:
1) Does anyone know the last time we swept the two New Haven-area teams on the road?

Last January:

Fri, Jan 7, 2011     @ Princeton University     1-2 (W)
Sat, Jan 8, 2011     @ Quinnipiac University     2-3 (W) OT

Princeton is in New Jersey. Princeton is in New Jersey.

Do the Faithful use this as a cheer?

One of our family's most memorable trips to Lynah were for the Yale at Cornell ECAC round in 2002.  We had been too busy to make our yearly trip and when faced with the prospect of no Lynah time, called the ticket office which thankfully sold us four seats.

During one of the two nights the sing-song "Yale is in New Haven, Yale is in New Haven" rang through the rink.  And I can still rankle my lovely wife with an encore rendition, ten years later.

Absolutely.

[ajh258]

Two questions for the eLynah faithful:
1) Does anyone know the last time we swept the two New Haven-area teams on the road?

Last January:

Fri, Jan 7, 2011     @ Princeton University     1-2 (W)
Sat, Jan 8, 2011     @ Quinnipiac University     2-3 (W) OT

Princeton is in New Jersey. Princeton is in New Jersey.

Do the Faithful use this as a cheer?

One of our family's most memorable trips to Lynah were for the Yale at Cornell ECAC round in 2002.  We had been too busy to make our yearly trip and when faced with the prospect of no Lynah time, called the ticket office which thankfully sold us four seats.

During one of the two nights the sing-song "Yale is in New Haven, Yale is in New Haven" rang through the rink.  And I can still rankle my lovely wife with an encore rendition, ten years later.

Absolutely.

It was used today at Hobey.

[Aaron M. Griffin]

Two questions for the eLynah faithful:
1) Does anyone know the last time we swept the two New Haven-area teams on the road?

Last January:

Fri, Jan 7, 2011     @ Princeton University     1-2 (W)
Sat, Jan 8, 2011     @ Quinnipiac University     2-3 (W) OT

Princeton is in New Jersey. Princeton is in New Jersey.

Do the Faithful use this as a cheer?

One of our family's most memorable trips to Lynah were for the Yale at Cornell ECAC round in 2002.  We had been too busy to make our yearly trip and when faced with the prospect of no Lynah time, called the ticket office which thankfully sold us four seats.

During one of the two nights the sing-song "Yale is in New Haven, Yale is in New Haven" rang through the rink.  And I can still rankle my lovely wife with an encore rendition, ten years later.

Absolutely.

It was used today at Hobey.

Speaking of cheers, I noticed something while at Baker Rink. I had never made the trip to Princeton before yesterday. So, with the Wall Street Journal identifying Princeton fans as the "least lively" fans in college hockey, I was not sure what to expect of their rink or its environment. The Journal was right. The fans are certainly dispassionate. They were silent most of the game. Their zeal seemed very contingent upon what was occurring on the ice (ie. when Princeton got itself back into the game), unlike the Faithful who were just as zealous before and after the game was tied. The lack of Princetonian passion tends to waste the creativity and taunting of the Princeton University Pep Band. They were original in their jeering with mimicking "it's all your fault" and, the chant I found most original, "it's big, it's red, it's probably infected." The apathetic Princeton fan would not even echo such jeering, taunting, and chants which in themselves were original and fun.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Two questions for the eLynah faithful:
1) Does anyone know the last time we swept the two New Haven-area teams on the road?

Last January:

Fri, Jan 7, 2011     @ Princeton University     1-2 (W)
Sat, Jan 8, 2011     @ Quinnipiac University     2-3 (W) OT

Princeton is in New Jersey. Princeton is in New Jersey.

Do the Faithful use this as a cheer?

One of our family's most memorable trips to Lynah were for the Yale at Cornell ECAC round in 2002.  We had been too busy to make our yearly trip and when faced with the prospect of no Lynah time, called the ticket office which thankfully sold us four seats.

During one of the two nights the sing-song "Yale is in New Haven, Yale is in New Haven" rang through the rink.  And I can still rankle my lovely wife with an encore rendition, ten years later.

Absolutely.

It was used today at Hobey.

Speaking of cheers, I noticed something while at Baker Rink. I had never made the trip to Princeton before yesterday. So, with the Wall Street Journal identifying Princeton fans as the "least lively" fans in college hockey, I was not sure what to expect of their rink or its environment. The Journal was right. The fans are certainly dispassionate. They were silent most of the game. Their zeal seemed very contingent upon what was occurring on the ice (ie. when Princeton got itself back into the game), unlike the Faithful who were just as zealous before and after the game was tied. The lack of Princetonian passion tends to waste the creativity and taunting of the Princeton University Pep Band. They were original in their jeering with mimicking "it's all your fault" and, the chant I found most original, "it's big, it's red, it's probably infected." The apathetic Princeton fan would not even echo such jeering, taunting, and chants which in themselves were original and fun.

I thought their respone of "No, it's not" to "It's all your fault" was pretty damn lame.

[French Rage]

Princeton fans would never echo jeering.  That's a new money thing.

[jtn27]

Two questions for the eLynah faithful:
1) Does anyone know the last time we swept the two New Haven-area teams on the road?

Last January:

Fri, Jan 7, 2011     @ Princeton University     1-2 (W)
Sat, Jan 8, 2011     @ Quinnipiac University     2-3 (W) OT

Princeton is in New Jersey. Princeton is in New Jersey.

Do the Faithful use this as a cheer?

One of our family's most memorable trips to Lynah were for the Yale at Cornell ECAC round in 2002.  We had been too busy to make our yearly trip and when faced with the prospect of no Lynah time, called the ticket office which thankfully sold us four seats.

During one of the two nights the sing-song "Yale is in New Haven, Yale is in New Haven" rang through the rink.  And I can still rankle my lovely wife with an encore rendition, ten years later.

We do indeed chant "Princeton is in New Jersey," but in my 2 and a half years at Cornell I have yet to hear "Yale is in New Haven." It has instead been replaced with "Bush went to Yale."

[Redscore]

And our community organizer went to Harvard

[billhoward]

As a cheer, "New Haven minus Yale equals Bridgeport" has too many syllables.

[Aaron M. Griffin]

And our community organizer went to Harvard

He went to Columbia as well, but Columbia lacks a hockey program and is thus irrelevant.

I have never heard this chant, but I would enjoy to hear it started on Saturday. I am sure the Cornell audience will be receptive. **]