The Red and White Game

[crodger1]

The Sun has an article on the Red-White game at:

http://www.cornellsun.com/articles/6481/

Can't wait for the season to start.  Will there be radio coverage of the York matchup (or should I hold off on shelling out $7 bucks)?

LGR!

[ugarte]

If I were Todd Marr, and I read that report, I wouldn't expect a whole lot of playing time. Still I am glad that all of the goaltending was so sharp. (Or was it the defense? Or poor shooting? Or karma? Or any of the other reasons to account for a shutout other than goaltending . . .)

[jason]

D'oh! Reading your message again I can see that you weren't saying that in complete seriousness. That's what I get for reading and posting at 1am after a few nights of limited sleep (due to our newborn baby girl).

Also, my statement about Cornell only using the traditional numbers is based on my own (limited) recollection. Does anyone recall a player wearing a number outside of the typical 1-31 range?

(An off-topic comment: being small and petty ( :-) ), I've really been enjoying the futility of the Syracuse football team --losing to Temple(!) and being dismantled by W. Virginia. Good, good fun.)

[Al DeFlorio]

Anyone figured out yet why Vesce and Iggulden were coaching instead of playing?

[ACM]

"Non-traditional" goalie numbers that I can recall off the top of my head (there may be others, I'm too lazy to research it right now):

28 - Corrie D'Alessio
29 - Jim Crozier
39 - Eddy Skazyk.

For many years (Al, Jim and Ken will remember this), the only number worn by goalies at Cornell was #1. Both the starter and the backup wore it. Trivia question: who was the first Cornell goalie to wear a number other than one?

[Al DeFlorio]

Arthur Mintz '71 wrote:

For many years (Al, Jim and Ken will remember this), the only number worn by goalies at Cornell was #1. Both the starter and the backup wore it.

Right.  And sometimes two backups.  In those days you couldn't "tell the players" even with a scorecard.  People kept confusing Ken Dryden with George Swan. ::nut::

[bigred apple]

George Swan was the one sitting next to the assistant coach.

[Richard Stott]

Jim Wallace wore 13 for Cornell in 1965-66.  The superstition against wearing 13 puzzles me -- it's  the 21st century, not the Dark Ages.

[Al DeFlorio]

Or could that have been Dave Quarrie?

[jtwcornell91]

It's become a tradition, and without tradition, our lives would be as shaky as..., well, as a fiddler on the roof!

[ACM]

[Q]George Swan was the one sitting next to the assistant coach.[/Q]

Cornell didn't get an assistant coach until 1976, so that couldn't be who Swan was sitting next to. ;-)

Which brings us to the next trivia question: Who was Cornell's first assistant coach? And what school did he graduate from?

[ugarte]

I knew my ignorance would burn me, but I thought it would be along the lines of "George Swan was the starter during Dryden's first year on the Big Red varsity, so DRYDEN was the one on the bench, smart ass."  

Of course, Arthur's response is even cooler (and he just isn't the type to call me 'smart ass').

[Al DeFlorio]

Could it have been my neighbor's son, Jay Riley, who, IIRC, played at Watson Rink?

[Al DeFlorio]

big red apple wrote:

... he [Arthur] just isn't the type to call me 'smart ass'.

But ya never know what he might be thinking...;-)

[Greg Berge]

Oh, I think we know.