Doesn't all the goal/no goal controversy take us back to the last big
cornell goal taken away that was at the regionals in albany against Lake
Superior. In that case it was, as replays showed, clearly a goal that took
away a game cornell was taking control of...  of course Cornell also had no
next game to make up for the call. And again replay did not exist at that
game to make up for the error...
 
 
At 01:53 AM 3/17/98 -0500, you wrote:
>I have reviewed the Saturday (non)goal on tape (I got one from some local
>TV broadcast today) and I am convinced that it was a goal.  It was
>difficult to come to this conclusion, I have now watched the tape over 10
>times.  However, I think this difficulty came from the fact that on the
>tape, the puck loses definition as it hits in the crease, and the 2D nature
>of the tape makes it difficult to retrace the path as it bounces.  However,
>an analysis makes it pretty clear that the puck could not have hit the
>post, but must have hit at least a few inches inside it.  My VCR doesn't
>have frame-by-frame, which also complicated the analysis.  It may have been
>a tougher call for Noeth than I initially thought.  However, the replay did
>make it clear that 3 of 4 RPI players in the picture seemed to feel it was
>a goal, as did the one Cornell player in frame.  (The 4th RPI player ended
>up with the puck).
>
>Sundays goal was less conclusive on the replay I saw, which I didn't have
>the VCR ready for yet, so I've only seen that one once.  I didn't think it
>was tipped, but the angle was bad, so I don't know.
>
>Water under the bridge, though.  We'll have video replay at Placid for all
>the good it did us last year when an RPI throw in goal had an
>'inconclusive' replay.  If the replay I saw had been used on Saturday's
>goal, I'm not so sure the play would have been reversed though.  If the
>replay officials would have to have seen the puck definitively cross the
>line, rather than infer from it's path that it did so, I'm not sure that
>could have been done.  Of course it's not exactly possible to definitively
>see a 3 dimensional event on a 2 dimensional screen.
>
>Thanks for the compliments on our fans from the RPI folks, I want to say
>that most RPI fans I encountered this weekend were pretty classy folks,
>members of the RPI band we stayed with this weekend seemed genuinely
>disturbed that such an eggregious officiating error was made.
>
>Jeff Oates, we love ya'.  Brad Tapper may have scored 8 of his 13 against
>Cornell this season, but Jeff Oates has 4 of his 7 for the year on the
>weekend.  Way to go.
>
>
>Larry Weintraub '98
>Conductor, Big Red Pep Band
>Chair, "Live at Lynah" CD Project
>Cornell Beat Writer, ECHA Magazine
>
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