Word: beanpots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BOWDOIN 5 8 L 3 RPI 6 14 L 3 Clarkson 7 15 L 4 St. Lawrence 6 18 L 3 PROVIDENCE 5 22 L 2 Cornell 2 26 W 5 BOSTON U. 2 29 L 6 Army 5 Feb. 1 W 5 Yale 3 7 Beanpot 6:15 p.m. 10 MAINE 7:30 p.m. 14 Beanpot final TBA 16 New Hampshire 7:30 p.m. 19 Boston U. 7:30 p.m. 22 HARVARD 7:30 p.m. Mar. 1 NEW HAMPSHIRE...
...Beanpot final still pops up in conversation among fans with long memories of Causeway St. history...
...would think a Harvard player would be at center ice with his team a man down," says Dempsey. "But he was out there, floating around, and was somehow back there for the score. It was probably the most exciting Beanpot ever." Dempsey chuckles. "I still kid Billy about him being at center...
Players still around today remember the first Beanpots because of the excitement of playing in the Garden, because it was B.C., B.U., Harvard and (at that time) a much weaker Northeastern team, because it was a local event with mostly Boston-area kids, because it was, as both Cleary, now Harvard's coach, and Dempsey put it, "a real adrenaline pumper" playing in the Beanpot...
...Beanpot Tournament was in its infancy when Cleary won the game with his surprising overtime play. When the tourney began in December 1952, the four local squads played in the Boston Arena, and it wasn't really as big an event as the Boston Garden Beanpots have since become, as both B.C. and Northeastern used the Arena for home games. Later, in the Garden, the four teams played in the unrenovated facility, and the crowds rarely topped...