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Dooley remembers his most exciting Beanpot, a not-so-friendly contest between B.C. and B.U. in the 1957 final. "I believe all hell broke loose at the end of that game in the Garden. I remember shaking hands with someone and ending up with a hockey stick over the head. As the teams were leaving the ice it ended up in a brawl...
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...
...Beanpot moved to the Boston Garden in January 1954 and all around the Boston area, kids who had grown up playing together in junior leagues were now playing against each other on the Bruins' ice. "I guess one of the things about the tourney then," remembers Harvard women's hockey Coach John Dooley, who played in three Beanpots for B.U., "was that we didn't have the great national diversity that there is now. We'd be going head-to-head with some of our good friends we'd grown up with. After the tournament, we'd always...
Northeastern rarely comes up in conversations about the early says of the Beanpot. The Huskies "weren't really the feature game," says Dick Cavanaugh, captain of Northesten's 1957 squad. "We didn't have such of a chance of winning. When we won a couple of years ago [in 1980], after all those years of going to watch the Beanpot, it was great, through...