This is so true. When I was in school, Union wasn't even on the radar
hockey-wise. But, we sure didn't like Clarkson and their traveling band!
My dad, Clarkson '58, said when he was in school that they didn't like
RPI. They thought of the students as those snobby kids. I think it's
interesting how rivalries can ebb and flow because when I was at the
tute, I remember really hating Harvard. We didn't like Brown much either
but I'm sure that had something to do with artificial noisemakers and
NCAA rules.

Andy
RPI '91

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Subject: Re: St. Lawrence at Clarkson

RPI - Union is an interesting rivalry.  I can't speak for the students
of
today, but back when I was in school and for a while thereafter, Union
was a
Division 3 hockey school.  When they went D-1,  they were very bad for a
good number of years.  Only recently have Union and RPI developed a
hockey
rivalry, some due to Union's improvement and some due to RPI's slide
into
mediocrity.  RPI- Union was always a fierce rivalry in football as they
have
been in the same division 3 league forever.  But while Union may
consider
RPI its biggest hockey rival,  old-time RPI hockey fans consider our
biggest
rival to be Clarkson, due to a long history of hockey and academic
rivalry
(not to mention a large number of Clarkson alumni living in and around
Troy).  So Union thinks their biggest rival is RPI, RPI thinks their
biggest
rival is Clarkson and Clarkson thinks their biggest rival is St.
Lawrence.
(And, in the ECAC, everyone hates Cornell!!!!)