1967 CELEBRATION

[Jim Hyla]

Reception For 1967 NCAA Champion Men's Hockey Team Upcoming

What a weekend this could be.

[upprdeck]

Nice that cornell can post this notice on a board that the majority townie fans dont look at.  

Maybe an email to season ticket holders to let them know of the event?

[andyw2100]

Nice that cornell can post this notice on a board that the majority townie fans dont look at.  

Maybe an email to season ticket holders to let them know of the event?

I received an email about this today that was addressed to CHA members. I know that's not what you are looking for, but it's a little better than nothing.

[Hooking]

The 1967 National Championship came just 10 years after the sport of ice hockey came to Cornell (Lynah rink opened). After the '67 Championship Team Cornell appeared in six of the next seven frozen fours. My how times have changed.

[mas1969]

The 1967 National Championship came just 10 years after the sport of ice hockey came to Cornell (Lynah rink opened). After the '67 Championship Team Cornell appeared in six of the next seven frozen fours. My how times have changed.

Among other changes, more schools added the sport and more schools stepped up to Div. I, thus increasing the competition for the good players.  In addition, NHL expansion that began in 1967 raised the level of interest in hockey throughout the nationU.S. and greater efficiency meant more rinks, all of which added to the supply of good players.

[Jim Hyla]

The 1967 National Championship came just 10 years after the sport of ice hockey came to Cornell (Lynah rink opened). After the '67 Championship Team Cornell appeared in six of the next seven frozen fours. My how times have changed.

Among other changes, more schools added the sport and more schools stepped up to Div. I, thus increasing the competition for the good players.  In addition, NHL expansion that began in 1967 raised the level of interest in hockey throughout the nationU.S. and greater efficiency meant more rinks, all of which added to the supply of good players.

Harkness, no need to say anything more.**]

[Hooking]

Yep, Harkness. Compare the W-L record of the Cornell Men's Lacrosse Team the first year he coached it versus the team record the previous year. Pretty much the same players, but NOT the same team.

[Trotsky]

Yep, Harkness. Compare the W-L record of the Cornell Men's Lacrosse Team the first year he coached it versus the team record the previous year. Pretty much the same players, but NOT the same team.

I always figured the huge class that he brought in for hockey played lax for him in the Spring, too.

I did not realize he was using the same old players.  Wow.

[TimV]

Yep, Harkness. Compare the W-L record of the Cornell Men's Lacrosse Team the first year he coached it versus the team record the previous year. Pretty much the same players, but NOT the same team.

I always figured the huge class that he brought in for hockey played lax for him in the Spring, too.

I did not realize he was using the same old players.  Wow.

I was on that spring 1966 team. The players are only old NOW.

Only one hockey player was on that team - Harry Orr at midfield - but he was a force with a cannon underhand shot that started low but could have finished anywhere he wanted to put it.  Lacrosse equivalent of the slapshot from the point.

Biggest difference on the 66-68 teams was Butch Hilliard, Lacrosse HOF player in the goal.  Still returning was Bruce Cohen to score,  and footballers Doug Zirkle, who was a horse at midfield and Ting Vanneman on defense.  Ting was about 6'6" and famous for being one of the supports for the tower stack intended to disrupt Princeton placekicker Charlie Gogolak.  Ned went 35-1.  We should commission the guy who did "Touchdown the Bear" to put a statue of Ned by the stairs near the Lynah entrance.

Or maybe at the intersection of the central paths on the Arts Quad.;-)

[Hooking]

Harkness coached Cornell Men's Lacrosse for three years. His record was 35 wins, one loss.

[Al DeFlorio]

Biggest difference on the 66-68 teams was Butch Hilliard, Lacrosse HOF player in the goal.  Still returning was Bruce Cohen to score...

Cohen, a 1965 classmate of mine, missed the 1964 season with an injury, but continued in the old five-year engineering program and so remained eligible his fifth year as he did not get a degree.  He was a mechanical engineer and Hilliard was an engineering physics major (don't make lax players like that anymore:-P).  Bruce is also a lacrosse HOF guy (led the Ivies in scoring all three years), and belongs in the pantheon of Cornell lacrosse greats.  Wish he could have played three varsity years under Ned.

[Trotsky]

We should commission the guy who did "Touchdown the Bear" to put a statue of Ned by the stairs near the Lynah entrance.

There should absolutely be a statue of Ned by Lynah.  Crowdfund it maybe?

[RichH]

Yep, Harkness. Compare the W-L record of the Cornell Men's Lacrosse Team the first year he coached it versus the team record the previous year. Pretty much the same players, but NOT the same team.

I always figured the huge class that he brought in for hockey played lax for him in the Spring, too.

I did not realize he was using the same old players.  Wow.

I was on that spring 1966 team. The players are only old NOW.

Only one hockey player was on that team - Harry Orr at midfield - but he was a force with a cannon underhand shot that started low but could have finished anywhere he wanted to put it.  Lacrosse equivalent of the slapshot from the point.

Biggest difference on the 66-68 teams was Butch Hilliard, Lacrosse HOF player in the goal.  Still returning was Bruce Cohen to score,  and footballers Doug Zirkle, who was a horse at midfield and Ting Vanneman on defense.  Ting was about 6'6" and famous for being one of the supports for the tower stack intended to disrupt Princeton placekicker Charlie Gogolak.  Ned went 35-1.  We should commission the guy who did "Touchdown the Bear" to put a statue of Ned by the stairs near the Lynah entrance.

Or maybe at the intersection of the central paths on the Arts Quad.;-)

For the record, I LOVE posts like this. Thanks to TimV for sharing.

[Swampy]

Biggest difference on the 66-68 teams was Butch Hilliard, Lacrosse HOF player in the goal.  Still returning was Bruce Cohen to score...

Cohen, a 1965 classmate of mine, missed the 1964 season with an injury, but continued in the old five-year engineering program and so remained eligible his fifth year as he did not get a degree.  He was a mechanical engineer and Hilliard was an engineering physics major (don't make lax players like that anymore:-P).  Bruce is also a lacrosse HOF guy (led the Ivies in scoring all three years), and belongs in the pantheon of Cornell lacrosse greats.  Wish he could have played three varsity years under Ned.

I thought Butch graduated from IEOR. But then again, many of us started out in engineering physics and switched later on, and OTOH, I'm like the guy in the joke about remembering the name of last night's restaurant,* so maybe I'm remembering wrong.

As for Harkness, everyone knows the only reason his lacrosse teams went 35-1 was because of his recruiting from Canada. Harry Orr (#19) was that good. Besides, those teams still weren't good enough to win a single NC, so let's not blow this out of proportion. (Thank you Bal'more. ::flipd:

*Two altacockers, Marv and Moe, are talking.
   Marv: "Boy, we ate in a great restaurant last night."
   Moe: "Really? What's it called?"
   Marv: "Let me think. What's the name of that flower?"
   Moe: "Ummm. I don't know. Violet?"
   Marv: "No, the red one."
   Moe: "Carnation?"
   Marv: "No, this one has thorns."
   Moe:  "Do you mean rose?"
   Marv: "Yes, that's it. [shouting] Rose! What was the name of the place we ate last night?"
   ::burnout::

[Al DeFlorio]

I thought Butch graduated from IEOR.

Could be.  Cornell alumni directory shows BSENGR '68 but MEE '69.  Still, not many engineers of any flavor today.