Arthur Mintz wrote:
 
>
> >        From _The Sporting News Complete Hockey Book_, '94-'95 ed.
> >
> >        ----------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >        Corpse, Keli            Center
> >
> >        b. 5/4/74, London, Ont., 5' 11"/174#, shoots left, first
> >        name pronounce KAL-ee.
>
> not, I assume, related to Murray Death (pronounced DEETH), [here comes the
> obligatory college hockey content] captain of the 1967 Cornell national
> championship hockey team.
>
 
Every once in a while, a name comes up on Hockey-L that I have long
forgotten, but brings back memories.  Murray Death is certainly one of
those.  The reason that I am writing is to ask if anyone can either
verify or refute the following story that I heard several times while
an undergraduate at Rensselaer (then called RPI :-) ).  Ned Harkness
left RPI after the 1962-63 season after already recruiting what was to
have become the class of '67 at RPI.  He took these student athletes
with him to Cornell.  They included the previously mentioned Murray
Death as well as about 16 players named Ferguson (well, maybe 3), and
perhaps others.  Had these players gone to RPI (and had not Rube
Bjorkman skipped town for UNH after one successful year), I would not
have been able to claim that my undergraduate years (64-65 - 67-68)
combined for the worst record of any class at RPI.
 
Anyway, does anyone know if Death, et al. really had intended to go
to RPI?
 
Ralph Baer
RPI '68, '70, '74