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That enemy would prove to be Cornell, Harvard’s biggest rival in men’s basketball and men’s ice hockey. The newfound rivalry between the Big Red and the Crimson is more current, more competitive, and much more focused on the actual game at hand. And Friday’s upcoming games in both sports have the Harvard student body in a kind of pre-game fervor that November’s football game can’t match. This time, the attention focuses on the contests themselves rather than on which house will...
While the Crimson puts a big red X on its calendar for both home contests against this school, it would be a mistake to call the Harvard-Cornell clash a single rivalry. One is based on history; the other is a new invention. One features prominently in Love Story; the other is somewhat covered by ESPN. And last Thursday, students had to choose which rivalry they wanted to see when it came to reserving tickets for either game...
...When the Big Red skates onto the ice at the Bright Hockey Center this Friday at 7 p.m., it will mark the 132nd clash between the programs, a rivalry with no shortage of bad blood...
Cornell still hasn’t forgiven the Crimson fan who threw a dead chicken at its goalie, Dave Elenbaas, in 1973. The Big Red ended that game with the upper hand by all measures. Not only did it knock off the then-top-ranked Harvard en route to an eventual NCAA berth, but Cornell fans got more animals on the ice that season as well. Later that month, Big Red fans threw dead fish onto the ice and tied a live chicken to the Crimson goal later that month. But Cornell still wasn’t satisfied...
...measure of bipartisanship. And so if the President is going to keep himself from wasting 2010 - and maybe his entire first term - he is going to have to find a way to make the Republican leaders in Congress trust him enough to work with him on a few big issues.See the top 10 Secret Service code names...