Retired Numbers

[judy]

did Cornell line up by number at Vermont this year? I seem to remember commenting to Melissa about them not doing so. Of course, I'm kinda tired right now so my memory is shot.

stupid vermont cowbell cheer...I see now how it haunts people.

no, Harvard doesn't line up by number, have a pic of them and Cornell from LP semis during the anthem.

[Greg Berge]

Has there ever been a great NHLer with the number 13?

[Ken71]

Bill Guerin wears 13.

[cbuckser]

I'll add Mats Sundin to the list of active NHL players who wear #13 and are great hockey players.  If we only consider those who have retired (so we can evaluate their entire careers), Ken Linseman was the best #13 I can think of.  I'd put him in the good, but not great, category.

[Sarli]

I didn't notice clarkson, but st lawrence did not go by number.  I remember commenting on it friday.

[peterg@bgdmlaw.com]

Cornell has lined up by numbers since at least 1977 per my viewing.

[Dart~Ben]

Dartmouth's lined up by number both years I've been here, assuming they'll continue to do so for the forseeable future.

I know Nebraska (the big one in Lincoln, not UNO) retires jerseys of their football players but not numbers, mostly because if they retired numbers they'd have run out by now. Actually now that I think about it, I believe there is one number retired, I just forget whose.

[Jim Hyla]

As far as I know, Cornell lined up by the numbers with Ned. Since, not even I was there before that, I don't know any further back. Briefly later they stopped doing it. Maybe it was during Reycroft, but I don't remember.

Another interesting sidelight was that Coach Harkness used to have the players swarm around him rather than the goalie, just before the faceoff. That continued for a while after he left, but again I don't remember for sure when it stopped. Again was it Reycroft, or did Bertrand stop it during his tenure?

Another sore point, to some of us long time season ticket holders, was when they flipped the ends of the ice we were attacking during the  first and third periods. Some of us, like myself, lost sleep standing in line to get tickets for two offensive periods, only to see them flip them one season without telling us ahead of time. But I like my seats on the aisle and have never tried to switch back. With the defensive flavor recently, and our great goalies, maybe it's just as well.

Lastly, I also thought it was nice to see the players stay for the Color Guard leaving. There was a time when the Cornell players would start skating even before the National Anthem finished. McCutcheon stopped that.

[jtwcornell91]

As long as we're on the subject, let me ask about a practice I've never seen anybody but myself observe.  Way back when, in an elementary school assembly, they told us it was considered inappropriate to applaud after the national anthem.  I don't think they explained it, but it makes a certain amount of sense in terms of the republic for which it stands being more important than the individual performace of the song, and so I've never applauded the national anthem.  Has anybody else ever heard of this?

[Al DeFlorio]

Yep.

What I'd heard (I think) was that you didn't applaud a recording but it was OK to applaud a live performance (where you were applauding the performers, but not the anthem itself).  But I might be remembering that wrong and your version could very well be right.  

(Now didn't that help a lot?) ::help::