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...responsible for Harvard hockey's schedule? Who is responsible, every year at Beanpot time, for inflicting this cruel and unusual punishment on Harvard hockey fans, on our peerless coach, Bill Cleary, and, what is even more important, on the excellent hockey teams Bill has turned out the past two decades...
...detoured or distracted from this ultimate question by [this year's Beanpot] victory. Consider these facts: 1) Harvard has what is probably the finest hockey team in its history; 2) Even this team barely made it into the finals--a first for Harvard since 1981 and only the second time since 1978, despite the fact that over that span Harvard has usually had better teams than any of its opponents and has six times made the NCAA playoffs; 3) In the third period of the Boston College game this year, Harvard entered the period with a 5-2 lead, watched...
...this Beanpot agony? Bill Cleary has mentioned "psychology," "luck" and shrugged it off with the stoic remark, "These things happen...
...Bill, they don't just happen. There's a perfectly good explanation. It's called "physical fatigue." It might also be called "scheduling stupidity." Time was that we played the Beanpot immediately after exam break. We were rusty, they were sharp. We usually lost. For the last five years we have found a new way to lose. We schedule games on Friday and Saturday nights before the Beanpot. Before the final we tried even harder to lose: games against numbers three and four in the ECAC in Upstate New York, a punishing loss to Colgate in overtime, and a long...
...Northeastern play on Friday and Saturday nights before a Beanpot game? You think they're crazy? They never have and never will. B.U. hadn't played at all for a week and came in fresh as a daisy. No, these teams are not so stupid as to refuse a gift when it's offered so generously: probably the equivalent of two or three goals per game...