Mark Grassl wrote:
   	The John Newberry/UW/ND water bottle incident happened in either
   1981 or 1982.  What I know about this affair is secondhand info but many
   "oldtimers" recall this game quite vividly.  Newberry was on the UW bench
   and as a ND skater came by Newberry squirted him.  The ND player resented
   this and one thing led to another.  Both benches cleared and a major
   brawl resulted.  It seems to me that the intense rivalry(especially for
   the fans) between Wisc. and North Dakota dates back to this game.
 
 
	The rivalry probably dates back as far as the oldest of us can
	remember.  It was certainly intense in the mid-70s when I was
	at UND; I remember one brawl in particular: both teams, in full,
	both sets of coaches, and the trainers, too.  It broke out during
	pre-game warm-ups; no referees on the ice.  The AD of UND was on
	the arena PA, demanding/begging for a cease-fire in the hostilities.
 	The trigger was a bump/elbow at center ice; the cause was a cheap shot
	by Wisconsin's Norwich in Madison the last series they played.
 
	Not to take anything away from the equally-old and equally-hallowed
	rivalry between the Fighting Sioux and the Golden Gophers, though.
				Dave Suess	[log in to unmask]