Who will be in Ithaca for Hahvahd?

[CU at Stanford]

Hey, can I start a new thread?  Rebecca and I are coming to the Brown-Harvard weekend in Ithaca.  We are psyched!  Beeeej, are we gonna see you there, too?  B-]

[Chris Moberg]

Beth and I will be there.

[gtsully]

I'll be there for Harvard, but not Brown (which right now, might be an even better game... ::crazy:: ) - should be a great time.

[Beeeej]

Of course!!  With bells on and with my new sweetie.

Probably won't make it to Brown on Friday, though - Yana can't get off work early enough.  Anybody got any suggestions for warping the time-space continuum?

Beeeej

[Jim Hyla]

[Q]Beeeej wrote:  Probably won't make it to Brown on Friday, though - Yana can't get off work early enough. Anybody got any suggestions for warping the time-space continuum?[/Q]Yeah, a new sweetie.:-D

[Jeff Hopkins \'82]

I agree Beeeej.  Somebody needs to get their priorities straight  :-P

JH

[Beeeej]

Hey, she's beautiful, Jewish, a huge Billy Joel fan, and gets along with my friends.  "Cornell alum" and "hockey fan" would've been perfect, but you can't have everything.  :-D

[Keith K \'93]

In the absence of "Cornell alum" and "hockey fan", willing to drive to Ithaca for Cornell-Harvard is pretty good.

[Greg Berge]

I will be there - first time in Ithaca in 6 years.

[Will]

Not that anyone cares, but I'll be there, of course.

[Ben Rocky \'04]

Do the not-in-ithaca faithful come to the harvard game because it is the highlight of the season for season ticket holders, sorta like what would be hockey's homecoming ?
It seems odd to choose this game to drive a ways to support cornell based on the specific opponent [don't get me wrong, i look forward to the harvard game, but just as much as i look forward to any other game]. We all hate the crimson, but it seems to me that true fans would look forward to driving to ithaca and possesing tickets for any game.

[Jim Hyla]

[Q]Ben wrote:
but it seems to me that true fans would look forward to driving to ithaca and possesing tickets for any game.[/Q]Come on, some people travel across the country to get to a few games. If that were me and if I had a choice, I'd certainly pick this one. Give some faithful a break.

[ugarte]

Jim Hyla '67 wrote:

[Q]Ben wrote:
but it seems to me that true fans would look forward to driving to ithaca and possesing tickets for any game.[/Q]Come on, some people travel across the country to get to a few games. If that were me and if I had a choice, I'd certainly pick this one. Give some faithful a break.

Absolutely right, Jim.  I daresay, if any Cornell fan could only go to one (regular season) game a year, but it could be ANY game they would go to Harvard at Lynah. That game has crowd energy like no other, and being a part of the Faithful means more than just enjoying hockey, it means being a part of the Faithful.

I can't be in Ithaca for Harvard, so I will "settle" for Princeton in Princeton and OSU this weekend.

[jtwcornell91]

Ben Rocky '04 wrote:

Do the not-in-ithaca faithful come to the harvard game because it is the highlight of the season for season ticket holders, sorta like what would be hockey's homecoming ?
It seems odd to choose this game to drive a ways to support cornell based on the specific opponent [don't get me wrong, i look forward to the harvard game, but just as much as i look forward to any other game]. We all hate the crimson, but it seems to me that true fans would look forward to driving to ithaca and possesing tickets for any game.

I typically go to whatever game fits into my schedule (so a lot of Thanksgiving and post-Xmas games; basically if I'm in the Northeast I'll try to drive to wherever Cornell's playing every weekend I can) but if I have to pick one weekend to fly up for, it'll be the Hahvahd weekend, all else being equal.  Between the fish and Love Story, it's beyond even a typical Cornell game.  Plus there's usually some extra meaning, like in November 1995, when we had a collective premonition the 10-year winless streak was going to end, between the karmic backlash of the fish goal game ( http://www.amurgsval.org/squishy/fish.1.4.html ) and the sea change of Schafer's first season.  And that's the trip where Mom got me this jersey:


This year, I basically picked out the Hahvahd and Clarkson home weekends for weekend getaways to Lynah (not only is Clarkson a fun game because of the two-grizzled-old-warriors nature of the rivalry and the fact that Tech is one of two visiting teams that actually brings a band, but this year it's also the last home weekend).

Picking trips by opponents makes even more sense on the road, though.  I'm a sucker for a North Country trip myself.  I would have put UVM on the list, but with the downturn in the Catamount fortunes, the atmosphere at the Gut seems to have died down, plus the Last Chance has closed, and the UVM Anti-Fan club is dwindling.

Oh, and I try not to miss a Cornell-BU game, either in Lynah or Walter Brown.

[jtwcornell91]

BTW, this is probably a good time to ask: can anyone driving to Ithaca from Albany or New England for the Hahvahd/Brown weekend give me a ride?  I land in the Albany Airport at 12:38 Friday (the day of the Brown game) and plan to have no checked luggage.  I've got a backup plan, but it involves someone driving way out of their way, so if there's anyone going that way, I'd be happy to help with the gas and driving.

Also, I'm looking for a lift back, preferably to Kingston/Hudson Valley, but if someone's headed for the Mass Pike I can probably work something out with a conveniently located Thruway rest stop.

Email jtw24 if interested.

Thanks.