Harvard Crimson 2013-2014

[TonyTheTiger20]

Re: The Gloom Bowl, circa 2005

Re: The Gloom Bowl, circa 2005

The Game I was referring to was the Game around 2005 that ended in a tie at 60 minutes. As dusk became ever duskier, the zebras spent some time deciding which end of the Bowl was less opaque. They then embarked on one of those both-teams-start-ten-yards-beyond-the-red-zone tiebreakers, and the next five sequences epitomized Ivy League football:

fumble
interception
fumble
interception
blocked field goal

until Harvard finally ended it by scoring a rouge or something.

Yep, that's the one. I distinctly remember Harvard fans rushing the field as the field goal attempt in 1OT was kicked only to have to rush back over the wall back to their seats when it went wide

Man that was brutal. Yale was up 21-3 in the third quarter in that game.

 

[Watson Rink]

Re: The Gloom Bowl, circa 2005

Re: The Gloom Bowl, circa 2005

The highlights of the UConn game are up at the gocrimson.com website, and it's a case of curiouser and curiouser......

No idea who took the video but, in contrast to the foggy UConn webcast, it's crystal clear. You can read the players' numbers!

Content-wise, though, it's bizarre....the first 30 seconds of the 90-second video are devoted to.....intros! and the final 20 seconds to....celebrating! Not quite as bad as ivyleaguedigitalwhatever.com's attempt to stream a squash match which ended with the two players still warming up the ball preparatory to the first serve....but still....

The only goal I noticed on the highlight video was Sister Elizabeth potting Sister Mary's pass, a very close-in goal (reminiscent of the adage that all goals in Boston District League high school games were traditionally scored from within 3 feet of the cage or closer). If I'd seen only the video, I'd have thought it was a 1-0 game.

Check it out for yourselves!

 

[alslammerz]

Re: The Gloom Bowl, circa 2005

Re: The Gloom Bowl, circa 2005

The highlights of the UConn game are up at the gocrimson.com website, and it's a case of curiouser and curiouser......

No idea who took the video but, in contrast to the foggy UConn webcast, it's crystal clear. You can read the players' numbers!

Content-wise, though, it's bizarre....the first 30 seconds of the 90-second video are devoted to.....intros! and the final 20 seconds to....celebrating! Not quite as bad as ivyleaguedigitalwhatever.com's attempt to stream a squash match which ended with the two players still warming up the ball preparatory to the first serve....but still....

The only goal I noticed on the highlight video was Sister Elizabeth potting Sister Mary's pass, a very close-in goal (reminiscent of the adage that all goals in Boston District League high school games were traditionally scored from within 3 feet of the cage or closer). If I'd seen only the video, I'd have thought it was a 1-0 game.

Check it out for yourselves!

It was probably filmed by the women's hockey SID using a HD flip cam. That would explain only having 1 goal - they wouldn't run it the whole game, just when a goal looked imminent. Was it a PP goal by any chance?

 

[Trillium]

Crickets in Cambridge...

 

[driventoit]

Re: Harvard Crimson 2013-2014

Crickets in Cambridge...

Where it's 44 degrees, not great hockey or chirping weather, so we're just gonna stay holed up!

 

[Skate79]

Re: The Gloom Bowl, circa 2005

Re: The Gloom Bowl, circa 2005

John Updike wrote a story imagining that Crone had indeed fumbled. But the loose ball was scooped up by a teenager wearing a "Watertown Blue Bunnies" letter sweater, who decamped for points west. An enterprising Yalie, realizing that the ball could not yet be blown dead, pursued the teenager up Mt. Auburn Street, recovered the ball, returned to the stadium in the gloom of evening, and downed the ball in the end zone...only to realize he had downed it in the Yale endzone, giving H two more points.

Only problem with this story is that the Watertown sweater reference is incorrect. Watertown High's moniker is the Red Raiders not the Blue Bunnies. I should know because that was my high school. Even noted authors can screw up I guess.

 

[driventoit]

Re: Harvard Crimson 2013-2014

Crickets in Cambridge...

Even Skate79 doesn't want to talk about the Yale game (hockey, that is)!

 

[Veritas]

Re: Harvard Crimson 2013-2014

Yale game???
Some of us are trying to forget.
They looked a bit tired or slow. Passing seemed off with too many Crimson to Blue passes. Only really positive impression was that at one point there was a loose puck in front of Harvard's goal and I was sure Yale would score and a very alert and quick Miye D'Oench cleared it out beautifully.

 

[Watson Rink]

Re: The Gloom Bowl, circa 2005

Re: The Gloom Bowl, circa 2005

Blue Bunnies, Rebels and Wamps. oh my

Only problem with this story is that the Watertown sweater reference is incorrect. Watertown High's moniker is the Red Raiders not the Blue Bunnies. I should know because that was my high school. Even noted authors can screw up I guess.

Poor Updike (Class of '54) was a Pennsylvanian and hence uninitiated into the mystery of EMass Schoolboy Hockey (no schoolgirl hockey in those days). I suspect he was attempting some obscure joke about the Winnepeg Blue Bombers, but who knows what Pennsylvanians are thinking when it comes to EMass Schoolboy Hockey.

More to the point, school nicknames come and go like autumn leaves. To a greybeard like me (Class of '66), Watertown's team will always be the Rifles (an homage to the Arsenal when it was a real arsenal and not a shopping mall), and please don't tell me they're not still in the Bay State League, playing 10 minute periods at the Boston Arena (near the NU campus) on Saturday evenings against, among others, the BC High Unfledged Eagles, the Cambridge Latin Cantabs (no hockey program at Rindge Technical) and the Walpole Hilltoppers (not yet renamed the Rebels upon the advent of "General" Lee from Tennessee as the school's football coach). And weren't Wellesley or Natick also the Red Raiders in that era? Not to mention the Framingham Flyers, the Norwood Golden Nuggets, the Needham Rockets, the Canton Bulldogs, the Dedham Police, and especially the Braintree Wamps.

Query for our Upper Midwest brethren and cistern whether high schools in that neck of the woods have equally colorful (or equally silly) monickers?

 

[Skate79]

Re: Harvard Crimson 2013-2014

Even Skate79 doesn't want to talk about the Yale game (hockey, that is)!

That's because I wasn't there. But if you want my two cents, losing to Yale at home is inexcusable. Getting shut out is even worse. Since coming back from break, they barely squeaked out wins against so-so to poor teams in Northeastern and UConn. They aren't as good as they think they are and the Yale game proved it. That's why I take the national rankings with a huge grain of salt. There are times when I feel reputation has more to do with a ranking than the actual team that is playing the games. Everyone satisfied now??

 

[Skate79]

Re: The Gloom Bowl, circa 2005

Re: The Gloom Bowl, circa 2005

Blue Bunnies, Rebels and Wamps. oh my



Poor Updike (Class of '54) was a Pennsylvanian and hence uninitiated into the mystery of EMass Schoolboy Hockey (no schoolgirl hockey in those days). I suspect he was attempting some obscure joke about the Winnepeg Blue Bombers, but who knows what Pennsylvanians are thinking when it comes to EMass Schoolboy Hockey.

More to the point, school nicknames come and go like autumn leaves. To a greybeard like me (Class of '66), Watertown's team will always be the Rifles (an homage to the Arsenal when it was a real arsenal and not a shopping mall), and please don't tell me they're not still in the Bay State League, playing 10 minute periods at the Boston Arena (near the NU campus) on Saturday evenings against, among others, the BC High Unfledged Eagles, the Cambridge Latin Cantabs (no hockey program at Rindge Technical) and the Walpole Hilltoppers (not yet renamed the Rebels upon the advent of "General" Lee from Tennessee as the school's football coach). And weren't Wellesley or Natick also the Red Raiders in that era? Not to mention the Framingham Flyers, the Norwood Golden Nuggets, the Needham Rockets, the Canton Bulldogs, the Dedham Police, and especially the Braintree Wamps.

Query for our Upper Midwest brethren and cistern whether high schools in that neck of the woods have equally colorful (or equally silly) monickers?

I don't care if Updike hailed from Des Moines, if you are going to write a book or poem or short story, get the facts straight. In this age of Wikianythinggoessolongasyoucantypewithyourthumbs, it seems like editing or fact checking goes by the wayside. Just for the record, Watertown is still in the Middlesex League with a dominant girls field hockey program that stands as the gold standard for the state of MA. Red Raider pride lives!

 

[Skate79]

Re: Harvard Crimson 2013-2014

Yale game???
Some of us are trying to forget.
They looked a bit tired or slow. Passing seemed off with too many Crimson to Blue passes. Only really positive impression was that at one point there was a loose puck in front of Harvard's goal and I was sure Yale would score and a very alert and quick Miye D'Oench cleared it out beautifully.

If that is the best that one can say about the game, then Crowell should have made the players stay after the game and skate "Herbies" for an hour or so. You don't want to skate and play hard during the game, then you'll do it after the game. Anyone who doesn't know what a "Herbie" is, rent "Miracle" and find out.

 

[Hux]

If that is the best that one can say about the game, then Crowell should have made the players stay after the game and skate "Herbies" for an hour or so. You don't want to skate and play hard during the game, then you'll do it after the game. Anyone who doesn't know what a "Herbie" is, rent "Miracle" and find out.

Yeah, right. I'm sure some sniveling player/parent would cry abuse and the coaches would find themselves with pink slips by the end of the week.

 

[Watson Rink]

Porker Pride

Porker Pride

I don't care if Updike hailed from Des Moines, if you are going to write a book or poem or short story, get the facts straight. In this age of Wikianythinggoessolongasyoucantypewithyourthumbs, it seems like editing or fact checking goes by the wayside. Just for the record, Watertown is still in the Middlesex League with a dominant girls field hockey program that stands as the gold standard for the state of MA. Red Raider pride lives!

Sure enough, the field hockey reference reminds me of the quintessential high school nickname and, like the crew that alone among Harvard sports teams still uses the Radcliffe name, there is one Walpole High team that is not known as the Rebels...the field hockey team....the "Porkers." Don't ask.

 

[Hux]

Sure enough, the field hockey reference reminds me of the quintessential high school nickname and, like the crew that alone among Harvard sports teams still uses the Radcliffe name, there is one Walpole High team that is not known as the Rebels...the field hockey team....the "Porkers." Don't ask.

In the 80s UMass' lax team was known as Garber's Gorillas and the National Champ women's team was known as the Gazeles.

 

[driventoit]

Re: The Gloom Bowl, circa 2005

Re: The Gloom Bowl, circa 2005

Back to women's hockey . . . H 5-4 over Colgate! What's with that? (only caught 3rd period)


( And, what's with "The Gloom Bowl"? )

 

[driventoit]

Re: Harvard Crimson 2013-2014

Down 4-2, 3 goals in 3 1/2 min in the 3rd. Similar to UConn game: "Let's score and get outta here, before it's too late!"

Unlike UConn, the game feed was actually accompanied by some audio, but the stoner-sounding play by play only marginally better than none at all. And I'll never understand why these guys can't learn how to pronounce the names of the few opposing players they bother with in the first place. (Grr . . . must be my nerves.)

 

[OnMAA]

Re: Harvard Crimson 2013-2014

Down 4-2, 3 goals in 3 1/2 min in the 3rd. Similar to UConn game: "Let's score and get outta here, before it's too late!"

Unlike UConn, the game feed was actually accompanied by some audio, but the stoner-sounding play by play only marginally better than none at all. And I'll never understand why these guys can't learn how to pronounce the names of the few opposing players they bother with in the first place. (Grr . . . must be my nerves.)

Today they'll face Cornell. They cannot afford to fall behind against them and expect to win.

 

[Just a Spectator!]

Today they'll face Cornell. They cannot afford to fall behind against them and expect to win.

Goaltending will have to be better than the last few games and the team will need to start the game with a sense of importance and not wait until late in the game to begin it's scoring. I agree that it will be difficult to play from behind in Cornell. Also noticed Gedman and Daniels not playing a normal shift anyone know why?

 

[driventoit]

Re: Harvard Crimson 2013-2014

That's because I wasn't there. But if you want my two cents, losing to Yale at home is inexcusable. Getting shut out is even worse. Since coming back from break, they barely squeaked out wins against so-so to poor teams in Northeastern and UConn. They aren't as good as they think they are and the Yale game proved it. That's why I take the national rankings with a huge grain of salt. There are times when I feel reputation has more to do with a ranking than the actual team that is playing the games. Everyone satisfied now??

Well, reputation counts for something once in a while, I guess. 3-1 at Lynah, and without Daniels. D'Oench's goal made from an all but impossible angle.