Folks,
 
The 1978 Beanpot was held during the great Blizzard of 1978. BU crushed
BC in the
semifinal game, and both teams spent the next few days snowbound at the
Garden.
Both BU and BC share the same trolley line; fortunately, it is
underground from Boston
Garden to Kenmore Square, the "gateway" to the BU campus, so we had no
trouble getting home.
However, the BC campus was still at least 5 miles further, all above
ground.
 
I believe BU then beat Harvard in the finals, which were postponed a
week or two as the
city cleaned up. Apparently, the Boston Globe had a nice article on the
subject
since this is the 20th aniversary of the tournament.
 
BU and BC have played some memorable games. BC's upset of BU in the
semifinals of the 1976
tournament comes to mind.
 
The 1978 semifinal game, and the week after is probably my favorite
memory from
my undergraduate days.
 
Ken Kretsch
BU '79
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eeyore [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Sunday, February 08, 1998 3:58 AM
> Subject:      Re: Beanpot opinions, comments -- ANYONE?
>
> Edward N. Moller wrote:
>
> > Let's not forget the 1978 championship game, which featured BU
> versus BC.
> > They're located on the same street.  Nobody can match that.  BTW,
> the Terriers
> > won that game 5-3.
>
> Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota are all on the same street, too; we
> just call it
> I-94.
>
> It's a cheap line, but I use it for a reason.  We have once again been
> hearing
> about how the Boston atmosphere produces rivalries that can't be
> matched; that just
> isn't true.  I have been around both the eastern and western rivalries
> (though the
> scrupulous might say that I was really too young to appreciate the
> former) and
> BU-BC, BU-Harvard and the rest are no more intense than
> Michigan-Michigan State or
> Minnesota-Wisconsin, for instance.  I can go into a lot of reasons why
> this is
> true, but we've done most of them before.  Suffice it to say that the
> standard
> Boston conceit that everything takes on more importance if it happens
> there just
> isn't always true.
>
> J. Michael Neal
>
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