After Mike's commentary and the postings as to Bob Johnson's accomplishments,
I'd like to go on record as saying that actually, I would support calling the
championship trophy the Bob Johnson trophy.  I did want however, to get that
previous blurb in about Harkness.  It seems that after many years of getting
the best Canadian players and totally dominating Eastern hockey, Harkness
earned himself a reputation as an arrogant, dirty coach that just doesn't ring
true from those who knew him.
 
Obviously, I'm too young to have known him, but I have spent some time with a
Cornell alumnus from that time by the name of Mark Emerson.  Mark covered
hockey for the Cornell Daily Sun then and knew the players and the coach.  All
the nasty accusations of elevating temperatures in the opponent's locker room
and toying with the ice surface just don't hold up to the facts according to
Mr. Emerson.  It is unfortunate that such a great and innovative coach who, in
my opinion, legitimized college hockey in the east (don't kill me all you
Boston area hockey fans out there, I know that is a highly debatable statement)
with his great Cornell teams of the late 60's, has never received the
recognition he deserves from his peers simply because he was better than they
were, and they didn't like it.
 
That, ladies and gentlemen, will be my last Ned Harkness dissertation.
Opposing viewpoints are always welcome.  (I love to debate!)
 
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Dave [log in to unmask]
Cornell '91 OSU Med '95
Let's Go Red!
"If I have seen further, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of
giants."
               --Sir Isaac Newton