[LAX] Cornell @ Princeton a.k.a. Schoellkopf Southeast

[Greg]

> It showed Cornell's decade-long near-exclusive dominance of the Ivies may be winding down.

Princeton's.  Our dominance wound down about 20 years ago.  ;-)

[Al DeFlorio]

Strange game.  23 goals and only 13 saves.

[billhoward]

[Q]Al DeFlorio Wrote:

 Strange game.  23 goals and only 13 saves.[/q]

Yeah, but luckily 7, not 6, of them were Cornell saves. In addition to the 23 goals and 13 saves, another 27 shots went wide. McMonagle came up big in goal a couple times for Cornell in the second half including a couple second shots (although my mind must be playing tricks a bit because only in the third period did he have more than 2 saves (3) so he couldn't have had many multiple save sequences). Princeton out-statistic'd Cornell at most everything except clears (where I could have sworn Princeton did better, but Cornell was 7x11 vs. Princeton's 6x12). What the stats don't show was Cornell's ability to hold (close to a legal stall) the ball for minutes at a time in the second half.

Oh, one other thing that helped: Princeton only drew two penalties but Cornell converted on both of them. Conversely, in Cornell's dominant third period, it blanked Princeton's one man-up situation. Princeton got off 10 shots in the third and had just one goal to show for it. Cornell got 3 goals on 6 shots.


Shots by period       1  2  3  4 OT  Tot
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Cornell Big Red.....  4  7  6  5  1 - 23
Princeton Tigers....  6  4 10 10  0 - 30

Ground balls by prd   1  2  3  4 OT  Tot
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Cornell Big Red.....  7  8  6  7  1 - 29
Princeton Tigers.... 10  6  9  7  0 - 32

Face-offs by prd       1     2     3     4     OT    Total
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Cornell Big Red.....  2-7   3-6   2-5   4-8   1-1  - 12-27
Princeton Tigers....  5-7   3-6   3-5   4-8   0-1  - 15-27

Clears by period       1     2     3     4     OT    Total
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Cornell Big Red.....  1-1   3-3   2-4   1-3   0-0  -  7-11
Princeton Tigers....  2-5   2-4   1-2   1-1   0-0  -  6-12

Extra-man opps         1     2     3     4     OT    Total
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Cornell Big Red.....  1-1   0-0   1-1   0-0   0-0  -  2-2
Princeton Tigers....  1-1   0-0   0-1   1-1   0-0  -  2-3


Saves by period       1  2  3  4 OT  Tot
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Cornell Big Red.....  1  2  3  1  0 -  7
Princeton Tigers....  1  2  2  1  0 -  6

[jtwcornell91]

Holy crap.  Nice birthday present! :-D

[ugarte]

[Q]jtwcornell91 Wrote:

 Holy crap.  Nice birthday present![/q]Happy birthday, John.

[billhoward]

Al, I don't know if you were in Boston Garden personally, but do you recall Cornell (hockey) being up 3 goals on Wisconsin in 1972 (NCAA semis) in the final period and wondering if Cornell could hold a 3 goal lead then ... and it was not to be? This collapse took 3 minutes, not 19 minutes, and had a happier ending -- an OT victory. But talk about deja vu all over again.

[Jim Hyla]

[Q]billhoward Wrote:

 Al, I don't know if you were in Boston Garden personally, but do you recall Cornell (hockey) being up 3 goals on Wisconsin in 1972 (NCAA semis) in the final period and wondering if Cornell could hold a 3 goal lead then ... and it was not to be? This collapse took 3 minutes, not 19 minutes, and had a happier ending -- an OT victory. But talk about deja vu all over again.
[/q]I was there and never forgot the Wisc. band with their cheers after each of those goals. We had an NCAA Championship team that year:`( .

[Al DeFlorio]

[Q]billhoward Wrote:

 Al, I don't know if you were in Boston Garden personally, but do you recall Cornell (hockey) being up 3 goals on Wisconsin in 1972 (NCAA semis) in the final period and wondering if Cornell could hold a 3 goal lead then ... and it was not to be? This collapse took 3 minutes, not 19 minutes, and had a happier ending -- an OT victory. But talk about deja vu all over again.
[/q]
I was there and remember it like it was yesterday.

[Al DeFlorio]

[Q]ugarte Wrote:

 [Q2]jtwcornell91 Wrote:

 Holy crap.  Nice birthday present![/Q]
Happy birthday, John.[/q]
And may each future one be celebrated with a similar present.

[jkahn]

[Q]billhoward wrote:
...in 1972 (NCAA semis)...[/Q]
Actually, that bad dream that seems to always haunt those of us who were there was the 1973 semis.  The '72 semis were a lot more fun - four goals for Dave Westner in a 7-2 win over Denver.  Ron Grahame, now the Denver AD, was their goalie for that one.

[billhoward]

[Q]jkahn Wrote:

 [Q2]billhoward wrote:
...in 1972 (NCAA semis)...[/Q]
Actually, that bad dream that seems to always haunt those of us who were there was the 1973 semis.  The '72 semis were a lot more fun - four goals for Dave Westner in a 7-2 win over Denver.  Ron Grahame, now the Denver AD, was their goalie for that one.[/q]

You're right, of course. It's funny, the 4-0 blanking by BU in the 1972 title game I forget about, but never the 6-5 OT loss to Wisconsin in the semis the next year. Maybe the Wisonsin game because it was so painful, whereas the year before Cornell came into the NCAAs having just been beaten 4-1 by BU the week (two weeks?) before for the ECAC title, so the BU win for the NCAA title over Cornell was not unexpected. You remember the close wins and the heartbreaking losses a lot longer than you remember the romps. Which maybe makes the 12-11 OT victory over Princeton in lacrosse a lot more memorable than the 11-8 win it should have been had Princeton's meds not kicked in with a vengeance the last 3 minutes.

[JasonN95]

The program description for the current installment of Lacrosse Weekly on CSTV discusses the Princeton-Cornell game, so I'm hoping for plenty of highlights. It is on a few times over the next few days, including Fri (Apr. 30) at 6:30 pm.

[Al DeFlorio]

Good catch, Jason.  Thanks for the heads-up.