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