SI on campus

[atb9]

According to Sports Illustrated, "The 100 Things You Gotta Do Before You Graduate (Whatever the Cost)":

"28. Yost Ice Arena (Michigan). The rowdiest crowds in college hockey."

Oy.

Other notable mentions:

36. Wave your index finger toward the opposing goal and yell "Sieve! Sieve! Sieve!" at Boston's Beanpot Hockey Tournament.

60. Scale the Lindseth Climbing Wall at Cornell, the largest indoor natural-rock wall in the country, then tackle Maryland's seven-sided, 60-foot-tall tower known as the Beast."

78. Channel your inner Ivy Leaguer and take in the Harvard-Yale regatta -- the oldest intercollegiate athletic event on these shores. The first race was contested on Aug. 3, 1852.

100. If you really plan to graduate after doing all this, um, maybe you should go to a few classes?

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2003/sioncampus/09/24/100_things0930/index.html



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[Section A]

Yeah, I was reading that during my lunch today; I almost choked from the disgust of seeing #28. Oh well.

[ugarte]

Been to Yost lately?  Who knows, maybe the student has become the master.  They have a much bigger arena to get rowdy in.

(Oh Eternal Spirit of Cornell Hockey ... please forgive this blasphemy, or strike me down immediately; I can't live with the shame.)

[Section A]

No - haven't been to Yost lately. But to be more clear, the reason for the disgust wasn't due to doubting the rowdiness of the fans there, but instead was due to the old story about how they stole all the cheers, etc. etc.

[Keith K \'93]

From everything I have heard I would expect that Yost does have the rowdiest crowds in college hockey.  They are certainly far more profane than the Faithful and that would probably be true even if it weren't for the Schafer era crackdown.  However, rowdiest doesn't imply best even if it is a component.

[Will]

Avash '05 wrote:

No - haven't been to Yost lately. But to be more clear, the reason for the disgust wasn't due to doubting the rowdiness of the fans there, but instead was due to the old story about how they stole all the cheers, etc. etc.

I meant to ask this when somebody brought up the similarities between Cornell and Michigan cheers in another thread, but for some reason I forgot to.  Are the stories true?  Actually, what are the stories (that is, if there's anything beyond "they stole our cheers")?

[Keith K \'93]

I'm sure someone can find the archived post or HOCKEY-L post or whatever (Whelan?).  But yes, the stories are true.  The crowd at Yost was nothing impressive until we played at Michigan in the 1991 NC$$ tournament.  They learned their lessons well during that three game series (whch the bastards had to win...)

[nyc94]

Someone should write to SI with the evidence they stole the cheers.  

Some guy in my freshman dorm called ESPN to register his displeasure that their announcer during the Ivy Game of the Week (1990, Brown at Cornell I believe) made fun of the hotel school as the Ivy League jock major equivalent to phys ed.



Post Edited (09-25-03 16:57)

[Will]

Bill '94 wrote:

Some guy in my freshman dorm called ESPN to register his displeasure that their announcer during the Ivy Game of the Week (1990, Brown at Cornell I believe) made fun of the hotel school as the Ivy League jock major equivalent to phys ed.

Well, I don't know if's the Ivy League equivalent, but it's certainly the Cornell equivalent. :-D  Just kidding, hotelies.

[Jeff Hopkins \'82]

And the cheers at Lynah weren't exactly stellar until the early 80's when we started to steal cheers from other schools.  

What goes around comes around.

JH

[Mike]

Here's one article that references the '91 tourny, when Cornell played at Yost:

http://www.pub.umich.edu/daily/1998/mar/03-27-98/boston/sports11.html

And another, where it is mentioned that "The series became known for turning the Michigan program in the right direction. "

http://www.pub.umich.edu/daily/1996/oct/10-14-96/faceoff/fo.index.html

[ugarte]

One of the guys who got revenge on Volonnino wrote:

Avash '05 wrote:

No - haven't been to Yost lately. But to be more clear, the reason for the disgust wasn't due to doubting the rowdiness of the fans there, but instead was due to the old story about how they stole all the cheers, etc. etc.

I meant to ask this when somebody brought up the similarities between Cornell and Michigan cheers in another thread, but for some reason I forgot to.  Are the stories true?  Actually, what are the stories (that is, if there's anything beyond "they stole our cheers")?

Well, as for whether they are true, why trust us, when you can trust the Michigan student paper:
http://www.pub.umich.edu/daily/1997/jan/01-08-97/sports/sports16.html

The exact story is this: we played them in the first round of the 1991 NCAA tournament.  We* rocked the house, even though we were outnumbered by a LOT (this was Ann Arbor, not Cambridge).  And it was a very exciting three game series, including an OT win by Cornell in game 1 where Manderville tied the game AS THE MICHIGAN FANS WERE COUNTING DOWN THE CLOCK with 2 seconds left. And then Andison (?) won it seconds into OT.  Yost went from moribund to inspired.

* "We" is used very generously here, as I didn't make the trip.



Post Edited (09-25-03 17:56)

[rhovorka]

And one more from the Michigan Daily, the recap from our trip there in '97:
http://www.pub.umich.edu/daily/1997/jan/01-08-97/sports/sports16.html

(Edit: BRA beat me by a couple minutes)

I also have the copy of the Ann Arbor News from that trip that also tells the story of the '91 series.



Post Edited (09-25-03 17:56)

[Will]

Geez, did they steal the cowbell from us too?!  (Or did we steal that from someone else first?)

Well, it could be worse.  At least they pretty much 'fess up to it.

[Greg Berge]

The cowbell is as old as hockey.  It probably goes back to 18th century rugby.

The Michigan traveling crowd is certainly the most obscene -- every other cheer is "ef this..." or "ef that..."  They're loud, but it's a big barn.  Ho hum.

The crowd I used to really like was Northeastern's in the early 90's, but a decade of bad hockey has apparently killed their crowd.