From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!hou5f!ariel!vax135!cornell!hal
Newsgroups: net.sport.hockey
Title: Re: Ivy League hockey?????
Article-I.D.: cornell.4015
Posted: Mon Feb 21 19:22:17 1983
Received: Wed Feb 23 01:28:59 1983
References: iwu1a.102

The brawl at the Cornell-Harvard game was worse than the Chicago Tribune
story implied.  Darren Eliot, the Cornell goalie, was knocked unconcious
when a full beer can thrown by a spectator hit him on the side of the neck,
which is about the only part of a goalie's body that isn't covered by some
sort of padding.  Both benches emptied and it took both coaches, and the
officials at least 5 minutes to separate everyone.

The person who threw the been can was detained by some of the Harvard fans
and ushers at the rink.  The fellow was a senior and had been scheduled to
graduate this May.  A Harvard judicial board suspended him from school for
a full year, and the Harvard athletic director called his Cornell counterpart
to apologize.

The Cornell-Harvard games always generate a lot of crowd harassment for the
visiting team, but this is the first time someone got hurt.  Fortunately,
Eliot was not seriously hurt and was able to play the next day.

Hal Perkins