63

[Greg Berge]

The record for home winning and home undefeated streaks at Lynah is 63.

Currently, Cornell is undefeated in 25 straight games at Lynah.  Their home winning streak is 18.

No, I don't expect them to beat either record, bit it's nice to be remotely in the ballpark,

[Jordan 04]

2 1/2 to 3 seasons is "remotely in the ballpark"?  

Yikes ::uhoh::

[Greg Berge]

Remotely, absolutely.  I'm sure it is the longest Lynah undefeated streak since The Streak itself.

Yikes my ass.

[jtwcornell91]

It's nice to be within an order of magnitude...

[Greg Berge]

Exactly... ;-)

[ugarte]

Greg wrote:

The record for home winning and home undefeated streaks at Lynah is 63. . . Cornell is undefeated in 25 straight games at Lynah . . . nice to be remotely in the ballpark

Remotely, my fanny.  I shrug when ballplayers have 30 game hitting streaks also.

But the more interesting thing: there were no ties in the 63 game unbeaten streak?

[Al DeFlorio]

big red apple wrote:

[But the more interesting thing: there were no ties in the 63 game unbeaten streak?

Ten minute OTs back then, IIRC, and I'd bet (too lazy to look it up) that not many games went to OT at Lynah in that era.



Post Edited (05-22-03 22:56)

[Greg Berge]

I count one overtime game during the streak:

1/9/71, 5-4, Harvard

[jkahn]

1/9/71, 5-4, Harvard
That one resulted in some highly positive deja vu this year for me.  As in this year's ECAC final, we had tied that game after pulling the goalie.   Kevin Pettit tied it on a deflection of a Ron Simpson slapshot and we won it in overtime on a shorthanded goal by Jim Higgs.
The Yale loss before the streak started would have been the previous overtime game at Lynah.

[Greg Berge]

The Cornell media guide does not contain overtime references before 1979 and it isn't possible to determine whether RS overtimes before then were always 10 minutes.  Anybody know if they were?  Prior to Lynah (1957), overtime rules were likely unstable.

[jkahn]

At least from '66-'67 to '71-'72 they were ten minutes.  I don't know when it changed to five.  It seems that ten minute overtimes were used for playoff games up through 1990.  See http://www.uscho.com/m/ncaad1/?data=longest_games

[Jeff Hopkins \'82]

It would seem that our game against BC this year would make the list.

Looks like the table's already out of date.   ::nut::

JH

[Jeff Hopkins \'82]

I take it back.  We missed #40 it by 48 seconds.

JH

[Greg Berge]

IIRC, it was changed to 5 min the late 80's.  At least in the mid 80's it was ten, because Dave Shippel's overtime game winner at Bright burned into my brain forever the scoreboard's time remaining: 5:55.

[Give My Regards]

Greg wrote:

IIRC, it was changed to 5 min the late 80's.  At least in the mid 80's it was ten, because Dave Shippel's overtime game winner at Bright burned into my brain forever the scoreboard's time remaining: 5:55.

OT was changed to 5 minutes for the 89-90 season.