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Norwich hockey 2012-2013: Our thread closed before Owsego's

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Just went on line and confirmed my season tickets for the quarter final game has been processed. I have to say the scanned game entry card work pretty slick. No tickets to have to worry about. Just need the scanned game entry card to get into the game. I was on vacation and was able to scan my cards into my home scanner and email them to a friend to get into the games. No hassle about standing in line to purchase tickets.:cool:
 
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NU56 said:
I started at Norwich in 1952 and have never heard of Wick until recently. My grandson is a freshman and has no idea where it came from. In fact, I don't know any Norwich grad who does. By the way, I asked him who was NU's big rival and he immediately said it was Caselton.

I think Derrick is right, the big rival is a generational conception. To me it will always be Middlebury. I didn't even know Rutland had a college in the nifty fifties.

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NU :confused: - this is Norwick's thread.

BTW, Wick is the University Chaplain.
 
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VT bragging rights said:
Just went on line and confirmed my season tickets for the quarter final game has been processed. I have to say the scanned game entry card work pretty slick. No tickets to have to worry about. Just need the scanned game entry card to get into the game. I was on vacation and was able to scan my cards into my home scanner and email them to a friend to get into the games. No hassle about standing in line to purchase tickets.:cool:
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That's a great idea.

Oswego tried using hand held scanners ONCE. I think it was the first game of last season. They had 100 people waiting in line to get their tickets scanned to get in. I never saw them try using them again.
 
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NUProf said:
All Owsego's fans do is whine about soft ice, winning 4-2 instead of 6-1, having to pay for tickets, all they do is is say Ow - glad you noticed :D (Please note, this rant was made in the spirit of fun, not malicious ranting as some Plattsburg fans do WRT Owsego :D)
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I've read that title a dozen times and just NOW realized it says OWSEGO. :p Very nice. Personally, I hate the complaining. You're seriously upset that your team ONLY won by 2 goals? :rolleyes: Don't blame the ice or officials or anything. You want to win? Play harder. Simple as that.
 
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In regards to the term "Wick", that is something that has come along recently. I graduated in 67 and it was not around then. I've heard it for about ten years now, and I cringe each time I hear it......and Middlebury will ALWAYS be our biggest rival.. (As an aside, I chuckle when people associate Norwich with the NESCAC crowd, nothing could be farther from reality than that!)
 
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In regards to the term "Wick", that is something that has come along recently. I graduated in 67 and it was not around then. I've heard it for about ten years now, and I cringe each time I hear it
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The term "Wick" was common when I attended Norwich in the late 70's early 80's. To me it sounds alot better than yelling "Go Wich".
 
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It was Castleton State Teachers College back in 63 when I graduated from NU. Yes Midd will always be my big rival, but the students today look at Castleton as the big rival. Kreitzberg was jumping last Saturday night, much louder than when we hosted the Panthers. I have no idea where "Wick"came from.
 
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The tale that I've heard explains "wick" as a pun for the original campus in Norwich, Vt. burning to the ground.
 
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The Real Georgia Peach said:
In regards to the term "Wick", that is something that has come along recently. I graduated in 67 and it was not around then. I've heard it for about ten years now, and I cringe each time I hear it......and Middlebury will ALWAYS be our biggest rival.. (As an aside, I chuckle when people associate Norwich with the NESCAC crowd, nothing could be farther from reality than that!)
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Peach, it was at least four years old when I arrived in 1980, because I asked a senior where "Wick" for Norwich came from and he told me that's what it was when he was a freshman.

I arrived in 1980, Went to a game that winter and heard "go Wick", and wondered if we had player named Wick on the roster. Man was that old barn (literally a barn, or stables) a cold place - especially back in the days when we had winter.
 
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NUProf said:
Peach, it was at least four years old when I arrived in 1980, because I asked a senior where "Wick" for Norwich came from and he told me that's what it was when he was a freshman.

I arrived in 1980, Went to a game that winter and heard "go Wick", and wondered if we had player named Wick on the roster. Man was that old barn (literally a barn, or stables) a cold place - especially back in the days when we had winter.
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WOW, Debra Wick has been the Associate Dean for Administration that long!
 
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I don't think we'll ever find out the origin of Wick if nobody does by now. My dim mind remembers everyone chanting "Nor-wich" in two parts at the games. Maybe "wich" morphed into "wick"? Anybody on this board wear "pinks and greens" as their Class A uniform at Norwich? Just trying to find out where I fit into this Norwich group.

NU56
 
NU56 said:
I don't think we'll ever find out the origin of Wick if nobody does by now. My dim mind remembers everyone chanting "Nor-wich" in two parts at the games. Maybe "wich" morphed into "wick"? Anybody on this board wear "pinks and greens" as their Class A uniform at Norwich? Just trying to find out where I fit into this Norwich group.



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I'm a 1959 NU grad and the first time I heard "Wick" is when Kreitzburgh Arena opened....
 
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The lyrics to "The Spirit of Old N.U." are:

"There's an old red light that burns for U.V.M. on the track to victory! Where a fighting corps still guards its ruddy glare as it flames so tauntingly; Heed the warning symbol, true and loyal hearts have prepared for alien feet, on the rough, tough trail to the Norwich goal where we never, never sound retreat!

"For the spirit the years have molded in the heart of the Norwich Corps, fights a way to the end undaunted, unbroken as in days of yore; 'Twill live on, down the years, while troopers ride the trails old cadets have made, 'Twill live on till the Norwich colors lead our columns at the last parade."
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What is meant by U.V.M. - it appears it may be "dear old Mild" and "old Mild" in Latin is "vetus miltis" but I can't find a "U" word in Latin for "dear", anyone know U.V.M. is there - or what is meant by "dear old Mild"???
 
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norm1909 said:
The lyrics to "The Spirit of Old N.U." are:



What is meant by U.V.M. - it appears it may be "dear old Mild" and "old Mild" in Latin is "vetus miltis" but I can't find a "U" word in Latin for "dear", anyone know U.V.M. is there - or what is meant by "dear old Mild"???
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Norm,
I am not sure what you are asking. If you are asking what UVM stands for here it is: Universitas Viridis Montis (University of the Green Mountains), also known as the University of Vermont. For much of our (Norwich's) existence, UVM was a major rival, expecially in the late 1800's and 1st half of the 1900's, we even played them in football as late as 1962 or 63. Since the lyrics you reference were probably created in that time frame, the reference to UVM makes sense.

If that is not what you were asking, I apologize in advance.
 
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oldguard said:
Norm,
I am not sure what you are asking. If you are asking what UVM stands for here it is: Universitas Viridis Montis (University of the Green Mountains), also known as the University of Vermont. For much of our (Norwich's) existence, UVM was a major rival, expecially in the late 1800's and 1st half of the 1900's, we even played them in football as late as 1962 or 63. Since the lyrics you reference were probably created in that time frame, the reference to UVM makes sense.

If that is not what you were asking, I apologize in advance.
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Thank you for your reply, I am well aware of the University of Vermont going by UVM and am glad to now know that it means Universitas Viridis Montis (University of the Green Mountains).

The lyrics are by by Gus Nelson (NU class of 1924); with an arrangement for full military band by Rupert Henry Whitcomb. Since Gus was a student in the early 1920's (i.e. the "1st half of the 1900's"), that is likely it. A copy is available in the Norwich library and on the internet here.
 
norm1909 said:
Thank you for your reply, I am well aware of the University of Vermont going by UVM and am glad to now know that it means Universitas Viridis Montis (University of the Green Mountains).

The lyrics are by by Gus Nelson (NU class of 1924); with an arrangement for full military band by Rupert Henry Whitcomb. Since Gus was a student in the early 1920's (i.e. the "1st half of the 1900's"), that is likely it. A copy is available in the Norwich library and on the internet here.
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Per Charlie the title for this thread should have been 'wick what?
 
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I here asst. coach Mattson took one for the team.
 
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watching Plymouth vs Wentworth, no score half way through the third. I think I just saw Prez dressed up as the "Green Man" on the boards in the Wentworth zone. He mentioned going in cognito (SP).
 
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