On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Mark Lewin wrote:

> While perusing my local TV schedule, I noticed that my local cable network
> was picking up the NESN feed for the Beanpot on Monday.
> I was checking the schedule and noticed something that I hadn't noticed
> before.
> Usually, Harvard schedules an odd weekend where they play only 1 game in a
> weekend in December so they can schedule a single game on the weekend before
> Beanpot.

> This weekend, they played Union on Friday and RPI on Saturday.  Now they
> have to face BC in the late game on Monday; their 3rd game in 4 days. The
> other three participants, BU, Northeastern and BC all had Saturday night
> off.

> Sounds like someone in the athletic department in Cambridge screwed up big
> time with this one.

Actually, Harvard did play a Tuesday night game against Quinnipiac
last week in order to have next Saturday (the weekend in between the
two Beanpot games) off.  It's fairly unusual for them to pull off two
of those in a season.  (On the other hand, the timing of the
"pre-make-up" game means that H has four games in seven nights.
Whoops.)
 					John T. Whelan
 					Cornell '91