Word: beanpots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Beanpot '79, my last as an undergraduate, was a difficult chauvanistic pill to swallow. Harvard, on its way to an 8-17-1 season, lost both games and finished last in the tourney for the first time in 12 seasons. Indeed there was nothing appropriate...
...stuck around for the B.C.-B.U. final, ironically the most exciting, most Beanpot-type game of the past four years. The Terriers took the final, 4-3, and Darryl MacLeod, on most days a third-rate forward for B.U., won the Most Valuable Player award...
...teams, four tense hockey games: one winner, three losers. A hockey cathedral, Boston Garden, which first opened its doors to the sport when Calvin Coolidge was in the White House, rattled by the din of 15,000 fanatics and an occasional passing Green Line hulk outside. Blizzard optional. The Beanpot...
...someone who grew up in the area what it means to play in the Beanpot. He'll grope for words, maybe mumble something about "pride" or "electricity in the air." Then, a pause. As a kid, he played street hockey every day in sub-freezing weather, using the curbs for boards and garbage cans or a Rube Goldberg wooden contraption for a net; made his parents wake up at four in the morning to shuttle him to some dingy arena when ice time is cheaper and the Pee Wee team can practice; stared transfixed as Bobby Orr led the Bruins...
...every February..two trips to the Garden. "It's the Beanpot," he says finally. "You know. What...