Harvard at Cornell (Sat.): For Cornell’s fans and alumni, this is the most important game on the Big Red’s schedule every year. For this year’s Big Red team, it might not be. At a public speaking engagement a local sports booster club luncheon earlier this week, Cornell coach Mike Schafer gave a brief synopsis of his team and its upcoming season. Not once did he mention this week’s game against Harvard, nor did he mention defending league champion Yale, nor NCAA Tournament team and nationally-ranked Princeton. He talked about big non-conference games against Boston University, North Dakota, Colorado College and New Hampshire. Saturday’s game against Harvard will get the attention of the fans, but you get the sense that Cornell has bigger fish to fry, pun intended.
I hope the team -- and fans -- don't look past Dartmouth tonight. Schafer teams have done worse against Dartmouth than any other ECAC opponent. Actually, this whole weekend should be tough. Our trip to Dartmouth and Harvard in February resulted in two ugly losses. We lost in overtime up in Hanover, and then were completely outplayed the next night in Cambridge. Colin Greening was the one Cornell player who played well that weekend, with three goals an an assist for four points in two games. Let's see if he has another big weekend.
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