From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxm!houxa!houxi!houxz!ihnp4!ihlpb!nickles Newsgroups: net.sport.hockey Title: Re: Eastern powers - (nf) Article-I.D.: ihlpb.311 Posted: Mon Feb 21 10:03:12 1983 Received: Tue Feb 22 03:33:43 1983 #R:5941ux:-19400:ihlpb:15400002: 0:1467 ihlpb!nickles Feb 21 9:32:00 1983 One point to be added is that there is no such thing as "scholarship rules" for Ivy League schools. Athletic scholarships don't exist. At least they can't be called athletic scholarships. For this reason, and the rising cost of going to school, a school like Cornell has a difficult time recruiting because the hockey recruit has to shell out $8000 for tuition every year. Pretty steep. Cornell has been able to cling on longer than the rest of the Ivy League because Canadien recruits gravitated to a hockey team that already was 95% Canadien. As for Northeastern and the Beanpot, the Northeastern Huskies or whatever they are, went 12-0 in the ECAC that year, and 13-0 for the season until they played at Lynah Rink. A tough fought game, but Cornell was victorious. After that game, Northeastern managed to scrape together all of 1 total win for the rest of the season. They didn't even make the playoffs. Harvard has the same story for the 1981 Beanpot. After winning the Beanpot, they went on to burn up the ECAC, to the end of season. Something magic about the Beanpot? Providence has never been a doormat team. It just took awhile to get the hockey program out from underneath the basketball program. Anyway, whatever happened to Clarkson (choke team of the decade) this year? Did they choke early? It won't be the same ECAC playoffs without Clarkson starting in 1st place and ending in 4th. Jack Nickles, Cornell '81 ihlpb!nickles