Word: beanpots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...primary purposes of the Women's Beanpot is, as Harvard coach Rita Harder puts it, "to increase the competition and rivalry and yet at the same time bring the teams together. The Beanpot's an attempt to establish something to look forward...
...teams did not look forward to last year, however, was Boston Arena, the decaying home of the Northeastern Huskies, who hosted the first tournament. Because the women can't afford the overhead necessary to rent out a permanent site like the Boston Garden, they have agreed to rotate the Beanpot from school to school and compress it into a two-day invitational tournament...
Northeastern coach Paula Dumont offered to host the Beanpot at the Arena-coincidentally the site of the first men's Beanpot in 1952. The surroundings of that hockey center are somewhat less safe at night; only about 700 fans attended. Joe Bertagna, last year's Harvard coach, says he believes attendence this year should be up around 800-1000, both because of this year's location--Bright Hockey Center--and increased publicity...
This year's Women's Beanpot should cost about $1500, Harder says. The teams are hoping to pull in $700 from sales of programs, tickets, and T-shirts--but each school will have to chip in to meet the rest of the costs. As Bertagna understates, "It certainly won't be a big profitable event...
...knows? Maybe 26 years from now, the women's beanpot will have grown in to a full-fledged tradition...