Word: beanpots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dooley remembers his most exciting Beanpot, a not-so-friendly contest between B.C. and B.U. in the 1957 final. "I believe all hell broke loose at the end of that game in the Garden. I remember shaking hands with someone and ending up with a hockey stick over the head. As the teams were leaving the ice it ended up in a brawl...
...Beanpot moved to the Boston Garden in January 1954 and all around the Boston area, kids who had grown up playing together in junior leagues were now playing against each other on the Bruins' ice. "I guess one of the things about the tourney then," remembers Harvard women's hockey Coach John Dooley, who played in three Beanpots for B.U., "was that we didn't have the great national diversity that there is now. We'd be going head-to-head with some of our good friends we'd grown up with. After the tournament, we'd always...
Northeastern rarely comes up in conversations about the early says of the Beanpot. The Huskies "weren't really the feature game," says Dick Cavanaugh, captain of Northesten's 1957 squad. "We didn't have such of a chance of winning. When we won a couple of years ago [in 1980], after all those years of going to watch the Beanpot, it was great, through...
...Cleary, brother of the Harvard coach and captain of the Crimson in 1957, felt Harvard was always at a distinct disadvantage because the Beanpot followed finals. "One vear we had bestess Northeastern, 12-0, right before Clarymas break, but at the Beanpot they best us." he says...
...great thing about playing is that Beanpot then really wasn't the crowds." he adds. "It was being in the Gardon, playing on the same ice the Brone avaid. And then, as now, the Beanpot was a nonson in itself. It determined who the best team in Boston was. So it was always a lot of fun and excitement...