On Dec 21, 17:00, william c mack wrote:
>     In the note about Wisconsin's performance in the first half of the
>season, there was mention of (at least) three players being
>"red-shirted."  In my (over) thirty years of following the Cornell Hockey
>team, I cannot remember ANY situations where a player was red-shirted.
>And I know there have been situations where players have been lost for an
>entire year.  But, in each case, they lost that year of eligibility.
 
The Ivy League, to my knowledge, does not have "red-shirting" in the sense that
you can't take a player and stash him in the weight room for a year, the way
lots of football powers do.  (I don't know whether that happens in hockey or
not, though I kind of doubt it... Wisconsin's three potential red-shirts are
apparently all due to injury).  However, the Ivy League does follow the NC$$
convention and allows red-shirting for injury reasons.  I think the player has
to petition the league, though.
 
I don't remember any Cornell hockey players doing this either, but I do know a
Cornell football player has done so:  Scott Oliaro, back in the late '80s, lost
his senior season to a knee injury (as I recall) and came back the following
year with another season of eligibility.  In hockey, I know that Bill
Holowatiuk, who lost a year with knee problems, could have returned to the Big
Red this season with a red-shirt year but chose not to.  Vinnie Auger, whose
sophomore season disappeared thanks to a back injury, is eligible for a
red-shirt year, and I understand that he might consider it, depending on how
this season goes.
 
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