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Reply To: | Mike J. ¹92 |
Date: | Wed, 29 Mar 1995 12:00:00 -0500 |
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How often do home fans insult fellow home fans?
This year I had the opportunity to witness Harvard-Cornell at Lynah=
Rink in
Ithaca. As usual, Big Red fans (mostly students wearing the free=
"Screw BU
and Harvard too" T-shirts) littered the ice during the introductions=
by
tossing a ton of fish at the Harvard players. They then threw their
newspapers (which they pretend to read during visiting intros) onto=
the
ice. Some even continued to hurl stuff during the national anthem.=
Anyway,
during the five minutes or so it took to clean up the ice, the public
address announcer (Hockey-L's own Arthur Mintz) frequently issued=
the
"Throw stuff again and Cornell gets a penalty" announcement, spoken=
of
course more eloquently than the above paraphrasing.
The fans behaved themselves for one period, and the game was scoreless.=
As
Harvard came out for the second period warmup, four or five more=
fish were
tossed at the players. Goalie Tripp Tracy deftly stickhandled one
unfortunate creature over to the officials, who showed no hesitation=
in
issuing the Cornell bench penalty. The Crimson scored on the power=
play to
go up, 1-0, and the crowd berated their fellow Big Red fans responsible=
for
the fish-throwing, standing and pointing "It's all your fault!" as=
well as
shouting frequently heard Lynah vulgarities at the deviants in Section=
8.
Incidentally, Harvard won the game, 2-1.
I have two questions:
1) Why is "Screw BU and Harvard too" so popular as a chant at Lynah?
2) Why are fans (at Cornell and elsewhere) permitted to throw stuff=
on the
ice even the first time, especially when everyone knows it's going=
to
occur? The danger is not so great in a player getting hit as it is=
in
residue being left on the ice and causing a player to twist an ankle=
or
knee. Didn't some school (UNH perhaps) once have a tradition of throwing
stuff on the ice that was curtailed when refs refused to tolerate=
the first
offense with a mere warning?
=8BMike J. (Princeton =B992)
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"Sophomore dies in kiln explosion? Oh my God. I just talked to her=
last
week. She was going to make me a pot."
--Otter, "Animal House"
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