Eliot's head?

[Section A]

I was looking at the "classic games" page on TBRW. Just wondering what "Eliot's head" (during the Feb. 1983 game vs. Harvard) means....

[Greg Berge]

A Harvard fan threw an object that injured Eliot's head.

[kingpin248]

I think November 11, 1995 would make a good addition to this list - the box already exists on your site at http://www.spiritone.com/~kepler/1998/98art4.html

[Greg Berge]

I agree.  That does qualify as a Classic Game.

I hope eventually to include a short article outlining the significance of each game.  Great comebacks, upsets, achievements, etc.

[jtwcornell91]

How about game one of the 1991 NCAAs at Michigan?  Or the two ECAC QF wins over Harvard in 1990?

[Greg Berge]

Also good choices.  Game two at Denver in '86.  The "own goal" comeback against RPI.  Nieuwy's final weekend.  Ryan Hughes' 4 goal loss vs BC.

[jtwcornell91]

If you're going to include losses, how about February 8, 1997 at Gutterson?  Two stick check penalties, one stick check PPG, and another 6x5, falling just short of a five-goal comeback.

[Jeff Hopkins \'82]

THE absolute classic game was Cornell-Providence, ECAC QFs, 1979.  Where we came back from being 5-1 down in the third period to winning 6-5 in OT.  Nethery ties it.   Gemmell wins it in OT.

I've never been to a game like it before or since.

JH

[Richard Stott \'70]

I've been watching Cornell hockey for almost 40 years and the 1979 Providence games was indeed "the absolute classic game."  There are a number of games in the 60s and 70s that could be added going back to our first victory over Harvard in 1962.  

Also, it should be noted that Eliot geeting clunked with the beer can set off a big brawl that made Sports Illustrated.

[Greg Berge]

IIRC, and I probably don't, it was a soda can.  I know the Harvard student was severely and appropriately disciplined.

[jtwcornell91]

Don't forget the hotdogging shot at our empty net that went off the post.  Years before anyone had heard of Leon Lett or Nick Boucher.

[Give My Regards]

Greg wrote:

IIRC, and I probably don't, it was a soda can.  I know the Harvard student was severely and appropriately disciplined.

It was a full can of beer.  I believe the student was expelled.

[Jeff Hopkins \'82]

Actually, it didn't even hit the post.  It missed by a foot or two.

JH

[jtwcornell91]

Jeff Hopkins '82 wrote:
Actually, it didn't even hit the post.  It missed by a foot or two.

Oops, I must have conflated that bit of lore with Jeff Oates' ENG in the SIT which went in off the post and/or the EN shot which led to Nicky Boucher's Leon Lett moment.

I wonder if this year's puck rolling on edge in the ECAC Championship game has replaced that as the most famous missed empty net.  At least that one couldn't really be blamed on the opposing player.



Post Edited (05-06-03 15:07)

[Greg Berge]

[q]I wonder if this year's puck rolling on edge in the ECAC Championship game has replaced that as the most famous missed empty net.[/q]

Depends on who (-m?) you talk to.  Among students, of course, since they weren't born at the time of the Providence game.  Among oldsters, of course not.  Among we alumni who weren't there for the PU game?  Personally, no, I think from the universal reaction that the Lynah game creates in people who actually saw the game, I am taking it on faith that that was the signature missed e.n. in our history.

I do think that the 0:33 tying goal is among the top ten moments in the history of the Harvard rivalry.  Thank you, Mark!



Post Edited (05-06-03 16:20)