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As a grad student at Wisconsin from '68 to '73, when the ' sieve' chant seems to have originated, I purchased a t-shirt (in '73) from the local coca-cola distributer which had a very fat goalie on the front, carrying a goal stick full of holes, the word sieve in big red block letters above the goalie. I just dragged that t-shirt out of the closet...the goalie is a visiting goalie, very ugly, and the letters on the front of the jersey are intentionally blurred ( but I could swear that one of the letters is an M, and the jersey is pretty faded, but it may have been brownish :-) ). We started attending games at UW in '68, in an old municipal rink called Overmeyer (I'm not positive about the name, but I think that's close). Bob Johnson was still building the team then , and they weren't too good. That first year we did not have the sieve cheer, so maybe that's why we weren't too impressive. The next year we moved to "The Great Dane". To the best of my recollection, that's the year the sieve cheer started at Wisconsin. Of course, by 1973 we were playing for and winning the NC$$ title (That's the year my wife learned that pulling the goalie with 60 seconds to go DOES work as we scored to tie the game with seconds to go..this may have been in semis??) Thanks for bringing this up. It brings back some great memories, and my wife helped me find that great t-shirt I thought she had thrown out. BTW, my favorite all-time cheer was when Notre Dame was in the WCHA and visiting Madison. We would yell "ND recruits in Alabama". HOLZINGER FOR HOBIE