Here's what I know on several topics that are current on this list.
 
BU 9, Cornell 0 - 12/13/1972 at Cornell. Cornell's first loss of the season,
followed up by a 10-1 loss to Clarkson. Cornell recovered enough to finish
22-6-1, winning the ECAC championship and then 4th place in the NCAAs. BU
forfeited their first 11 wins, including the Cornell victory after sophomore
Dick Decloe was declared ineligible based on a complaint made by Cornell AD
Jon Anderson. Apparently Cornell was familiar with the situation because
they lost a player the previous year (a freshman, not eligible for the
varsity, under the rules of the Ivy League in those days).
 
I do not believe that this incident had anything to do with Abbott's firing
the next year, which was related to his conduct in a different eligibility
situation, the court case concerning players Bill Buckton and Peter Marzo.
The eligibility situation in college hockey was very confused in those days.
The NCAA even had a proposal to drop hockey as a NCAA sport that was
eventually discarded. Things were finally sorted out and hockey recruiting
problems have been a thing of the past for the last twenty years in hockey,
one of the things which supporters of this sport can look at with pride -
unlike the other big-time NCAA sports. (I will treat the Maine problems of
the early 90's as a freak situation which has not been repeated.)
 
It is my understanding that the score of a completed game stands, after a
retroactive forfeit, footnoted to show the forfeit. So the only score that
can be shown for this game is 9-0 BU (*). A game forfeited before or during
play (see below) goes down as 1-0.
 
The Michigan Tech forfeit came on 1/12/1985, in a HEA-WCHA interlocking
schedule game at BU. BU won the previous night 6-5 and was leading 5-1 in
the Saturday game. At 12:36 of the second period, an altercation started
between the MT goalie and a BU player, apparently due to some contact after
the whistle. The referees (Bob Quinn and Frank Cole) called the MT goalie,
Daryl Pierce, for a high sticking major. Apparently this incensed the MT
coach, Jim Nahrgang, enough that he pulled the team off of the ice, never to
return. Nahrgang resigned at the end of the season. Brad Buetow, mentioned
in a previous post, was fired by Minnesota at the end of this season for
reasons that (presumably) had nothing to do with the MT forfeit.
 
BU is working on a new rink. In his pre-game interview on radio before BU's
last game against Lowell, BU broadcaster Bernie Corbett asked BU coach Jack
Parker about the arena in Lowell where the teams had played the previous
night. Parker said that it was a great building, that it had been built by
the same people who did the UNH arena, and that they had done a better job
with the finishing touches at Lowell. The implication was that BU was
already talking with the same construction firm about doing an even better
job in Boston.
 
The arena will clearly be in the Armory site. Because of the deal BU made
with the city and/or state, the first priority for construction was to add
very badly needed student housing. As a long-time season ticket holder in
Walter Brown Arena, I know how much the old building means to BU. But it is
time to move on to a facility that parallels the other big time hockey
programs.
 
Enough for now.
 
Patrick Abegg
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