Word: beanpots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...experience the Beanpot if you're a student at Harvard, Boston University Boston College or Northeastern--you grow with it. It is both a microcosm of what sports are and can be, and an ongoing life-cycle of one's collegiate stay...
Here is one onlooker's four-year term with the Beanpot...
...Harvard freshman and a Beanpot freshman. I went because I liked hockey and "everybody went," but I was so skeptical and unsure that I brought some notes for a Government exam in case things got boring...
...Brian Petrovek. One week later, Harvard beat Northeastern in the consolation, 4-2, and freshman goalie Paul Skidmore led Boston College in a 5-3 upset of the Terriers, but I wasn't there. I was too busy trying to reconcile the simultaneous allure and disappointment of my first Beanpot with a non-honors grade in the Government exam. Typical freshman...
February, 1977: Euphoria--There seemed to be a little more pre-Beanpot thought now that fancy had become ritual. I tried to characterize the participants. Boston University, traditional collegiate hockey power, was The Revered. Boston College, whose blown-dry kiss-me-I'm-Irish throng would fill half the seats in the Garden (the three remaining schools took the other half) was The Beloved. Northeastern, the commuter school on Huntington Ave. that never seemed to park itself in the 9:00 pm finals, had a Sports Information Director known as Jack "6:00" Grinold. The Huskies were The Damned...