"When The Red Come Skating In"

[HeafDog]

(Starts nice and slow, and gathers speed starting after the first time through)

Oh when the Red
Come skating in
Oh when the Red come skating in
Oh I want to be there in Lynah
When the Red come skating in

[Dunc]

Love this!

[CU2007]

Love the undergrad enthusiasm, but please spend most of your energy saving the traditions COVID ruined, rather than inventing new things. Why doesn't the student section sing after "Gary glitter" 2nd intermission anymore?

[BearLover]

Love the undergrad enthusiasm, but please spend most of your energy saving the traditions COVID ruined, rather than inventing new things. Why doesn't the student section sing after "Gary glitter" 2nd intermission anymore?

I think it's because the band starts playing too early now. By the time the third period begins, the band has already finished all the verses. The fans singing was my absolute favorite cheer when I was a student. Maybe you'd have success restoring this tradition if you contacted someone in the band.

[CU2007]

Love the undergrad enthusiasm, but please spend most of your energy saving the traditions COVID ruined, rather than inventing new things. Why doesn't the student section sing after "Gary glitter" 2nd intermission anymore?

I think it's because the band starts playing too early now. By the time the third period begins, the band has already finished all the verses. The fans singing was my absolute favorite cheer when I was a student. Maybe you'd have success restoring this tradition if you contacted someone in the band.

Dunc, I think you'd find a lot of people who would echo this about the students singing while the 3rd period gets underway. Make it your legacy to find a way to bring this back.

[BearLover]

Love the undergrad enthusiasm, but please spend most of your energy saving the traditions COVID ruined, rather than inventing new things. Why doesn't the student section sing after "Gary glitter" 2nd intermission anymore?

I think it's because the band starts playing too early now. By the time the third period begins, the band has already finished all the verses. The fans singing was my absolute favorite cheer when I was a student. Maybe you'd have success restoring this tradition if you contacted someone in the band.

Dunc, I think you'd find a lot of people who would echo this about the students singing while the 3rd period gets underway. Make it your legacy to find a way to bring this back.

Also, FWIW, COVID ruined a lot of things related to the hockey program, but I think this was already happening pre-COVID.

[jtwcornell91]

(Starts nice and slow, and gathers speed starting after the first time through)

Oh when the Red
Come skating in
Oh when the Red come skating in
Oh I want to be there in Lynah
When the Red come skating in

I suspect this has something to do with the reduction in road trips, but this would feel wrong to anyone who'd been to a game at St. Lawrence/with an SLU band present.

But then I feel the same way about sports teams in the state of New York playing "Sweet Caroline".

[HeafDog]

Love the undergrad enthusiasm, but please spend most of your energy saving the traditions COVID ruined, rather than inventing new things.

"Undergrad enthusiasm"? Sorry, I don't follow you. I celebrate my 25th reunion this summer.

I can assure you I know all about our traditions. And I agree with you that they should be kept alive. On the other hand, they are a living, breathing thing. For better or for worse, they are dynamic, not static. But understand that I am not changing existing traditions in any way, I am simply trying to inject what I believe is much needed variety into our existing trisyllabic repertoire.

I knew I should have provided more context when I posted this. It was late. I posted this because, let's just say I introduced the Lake Placid crowd to this idea last night, and I wanted to provide the words in case anyone is interested. I can see you're not, but I know that at least Dunc is, and others at last night's game reacted positively to it as well.

[marty]

Love the undergrad enthusiasm, but please spend most of your energy saving the traditions COVID ruined, rather than inventing new things.

"Undergrad enthusiasm"? Sorry, I don't follow you. I celebrate my 25th reunion this summer.

I can assure you I know all about our traditions. And I agree with you that they should be kept alive. On the other hand, they are a living, breathing thing. For better or for worse, they are dynamic, not static. But understand that I am not changing existing traditions in any way, I am simply trying to inject what I believe is much needed variety into our existing trisyllabic repertoire.

I knew I should have provided more context when I posted this. It was late. I posted this because, let's just say I introduced the Lake Placid crowd to this idea last night, and I wanted to provide the words in case anyone is interested. I can see you're not, but I know that at least Dunc is, and others at last night's game reacted positively to it as well.

Nice pipes there. Do you sing with any campus group?

[RichH]

(Starts nice and slow, and gathers speed starting after the first time through)

Oh when the Red
Come skating in
Oh when the Red come skating in
Oh I want to be there in Lynah
When the Red come skating in

I suspect this has something to do with the reduction in road trips, but this would feel wrong to anyone who'd been to a game at St. Lawrence/with an SLU band present.

But then I feel the same way about sports teams in the state of New York playing "Sweet Caroline".

Even without the band (the best version was put together by an oboist) the organ or recording plays it.

Good to see HeafDog checking back in!

[Dunc]

Love the undergrad enthusiasm, but please spend most of your energy saving the traditions COVID ruined, rather than inventing new things. Why doesn't the student section sing after "Gary glitter" 2nd intermission anymore?

I think it's because the band starts playing too early now. By the time the third period begins, the band has already finished all the verses. The fans singing was my absolute favorite cheer when I was a student. Maybe you'd have success restoring this tradition if you contacted someone in the band.

Dunc, I think you'd find a lot of people who would echo this about the students singing while the 3rd period gets underway. Make it your legacy to find a way to bring this back.

Just so everyone's aware, I'm an undergrad (junior) but I've been going to Cornell hockey since I was very young cuz my older sister came here. This is why I'm more enthusiastic than the average undergrad and why I'm pushing for keeping our traditions alive as much as I can.

It is a more difficult task than you can imagine nowadays tho. In fact I'm not sure who heard about this, but when laserwhisperer and I made cheer sheets for the Harvard game to spread the word, lynah staff was not happy because they were afraid they'd get thrown onto the ice. Additionally, students nowadays are trying to learn as much as possible but the issue is over like 2/3 the student tickets aren't season ticket holders and there is a *lot* of turnover on who has been to a game before in those 2/3 each game so it's very difficult to get chants to stick and carry over game to game.

However, through advertising on social media pages and pushing ppl to learn, I feel we had a vast improvement from the beginning of the year in terms of collective student knowledge on chants and I do think it showed. Me and many others are truly trying our best to keep stuff alive.

In regards to singing Gary glitter, as I mentioned before, I've been going to games for quite a while (obv not as long as most of the seasoned veterans of elynah, but a long time in terms of undergrads), so I definitely understand how powerful it felt in lynah when the crowd would carry it on acapella during the start of the period and I've also tried before to get the band to switch back to starting closer to the start of the period. My understanding after I've talked with the band many times is that they've been told they have to finish all the verses before puck drop (as BearLover mentioned) because someone important (not sure if it's someone affiliated with Cornell/Lynah, on ice officials, or higher-ups) told them it is distracting to play. In fact I'm sure many of those who were also at lake placid yesterday can attest to the fact that if the band forgets to start it at the right time, they just play it at a fast enough/sped-up pace to finish before puck drop.

On occasion they mess up and play it too slow so we end up getting to acapella the last few lines in during play of game, but majority of time the last few seasons, they get all verses done even if they have to speed through them, because I believe they've been told they have to.

[David Harding]

It's certainly true that the band is not allowed to play while the puck is in action, but there is no restriction on vocalizing within limits of decency.

[marty]

It's certainly true that the band is not allowed to play while the puck is in action, but there is no restriction on vocalizing within limits of decency.

But if the band was told to make sure they finish early enough that there is no acapela singing, that just sucks.

[andyw2100]

It's certainly true that the band is not allowed to play while the puck is in action, but there is no restriction on vocalizing within limits of decency.

But if the band was told to make sure they finish early enough that there is no acapela singing, that just sucks.

If the band was told this it was what...three or four years ago, at least, right? Different band leaders, lousy institutional memory, etc. What's the worst that can happen if they try again? Someone says, "We told you four years ago...", and the band says, "Whoops. Our bad."

Seriously...seems like they don't have a lot to lose by trying.

[BMac]

If you're an undergrad, feel free to ignore what all us old timers say. Make your own traditions! Revive old ones! It doesn't matter, so long as you're there, loud, and ideally clever.