Word: rinks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Vegabond Team that played out of B.U.'s Walter Brown Arena during the renovation of Watson Rink lost more games (18) than any other in Harvard history. That memorable squad was bumped from the playoff race soon after a January 31 loss to Providence dropped its record to 3-9. The season closed with a bang: one-goal losses to Dartmouth and Yale...
...time when frustration of losing seasons had built up almost to the point of no return for both player and fan, the Harvard hockey rink rats turned into link ogres, late entries in The Most Belligerent Pass of the year Contest, which for years too many to count had been the stomping ground of lthaca's Lynah Loathsome. For two ECAC schools a long way from home. Princeton and Cornell you could color the devil Crimson...
...itself just outside the Cornell crease; and finally, a live chicken--spray-painted Crimson, of course--courtesy of Kirkland House, which plops itself down behind the Cornell net before the Big Red's Paul Geiger, who sends it back into the crowd special delivers. During the ensuing clean up, rink announcer Lloyd Perbnutter blares for all to hear. "The next article that is thrown on the ice will result in a minor penalty against Harvard." When Hayward returns to his station, he is bombarded again, this time by the booming chants of "Sieve...
...Cornell fan with a drum stick and a cowbell tries to rally his crowd (the Cornell fans were approximately 500 in number) and his team. Suddenly a deafening clanging emerges from he Harvard student sections, overriding all other sounds in the rink, especially that of the cowbell. The Cornell fans cringe behind their newspapers. The Harvard Gong has made its debut appearance
Around the eight minute mark of he second period, the Harvard band says, "Hey Wade, we love you." And with four minutes left in the period, the Harvard fans, pointing first at the Crimson net and then down to the other end of the rink, start in with "Lau is a goalie, Eliot's a sieve Eau is a goalie, Eliot's a sieve! Goalie... Sieve! Goalie. . . Sieve...