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M. Hockey Suffers First League Loss to Bulldogs

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Cornell witnessed its 10-game unbeaten steak come to an unexpected end Friday night, thanks to a feisty Yale team that handed the Red its first home loss since March 18. The Bulldogs’ 4-3 victory marked the team’s first win at Lynah Rink since 1999 and improved the Bulldogs to 5-1 against ranked competition this season.
Cornell’s (14-2-3, 9-1-2 ECAC Hockey) inability to convert on three successive power plays to start the game was a harbinger of things to come according to Cornell head coach Mike Schafer ’86.
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Red Falls to Yale for First League Loss of Season

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Check Monday’s edition of The Cornell Daily Sun for additional coverage of the men’s hockey team.
Cornell witnessed its 10-game unbeaten steak come to an unexpected end Friday night thanks to a feisty Yale team that handed the Red its first home loss of the season. The Red failed to defeat the Bulldogs on its home ice for a forth consecutive time, losing 4-3.

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Men’s Hockey Tops RPI, RPI Rankings With Wins

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­Cornell, ranked fifth in the nation, earned a pair of road victories this weekend at Union and Rensselaer to surge past Princeton into sole possession of first place atop the ECAC ledger. Televised nationally on Friday evening, Cornell snapped Union’s three-game winning streak, downing the Dutchmen, 4-1. The Red completed its third four-point weekend against ECAC competition with a 3-0 shutout over the Engineers Saturday night.[img_assist|nid=34188|title=Knuckle puck|desc=Sophomore Riley Nash has two goals and two assists to lead the Red’s offense over the weekend.|link=node|align=left|width=|height=0]

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North Country Comes to Lynah Rink

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Listening to head coach Mike Schafer ’86 speak about the Clarkson Golden Knights, you cannot tell whether he is referring to last year’s team, which finished atop the ECAC Hockey standings, or this year’s club, which currently shares a spot in the conference basement with three other squads. Nevertheless, for its final two home games of 2008, the Red will host Clarkson tonight and St. Lawrence tomorrow evening. Both games are slated for a 7 p.m. faceoff at Lynah Rink.

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Nash’s Two Goals Lead Red Past Crimson

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Riley Nash could not have picked a better time to break his scoring drought. The sophomore center buried his first two goals of the early 2008-09 campaign — helping Cornell edge Harvard, 2-1, in front of 4,267 raucous Cornell supporters Friday night at Lynah Rink. The victory snapped the Crimson’s four-game winning streak in the bitter Ithaca-Cambridge rivalry.
“It’s nice to see Riley score a couple of goals and relieve some of the pressure on him,” said head coach Mike Schafer ’86. “There’s no question he was pressing. I think any offensive player takes a lot of pride in wanting to score goals. He’s had his chances and tonight it was nice for him to get us a couple [goals].”

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Penn’s Defense Spoils Football’s Senior Day

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On a snowy Saturday afternoon in the final game of the 2008 season, it was strength versus strength as Cornell hosted Penn in the annual Trustees Cup. The Red boasted the Ivy League’s top-ranked offense while the Quakers entered with the Ancient Eight’s stingiest defense. The old mantra that a good defense trumps a good offense held true, as Penn’s 23-6 victory sent Cornell on the way to its first losing season since 2004.
What began as an exciting and promising season for the Red (4-6, 2-5 Ivy) — which won its first three games — came to a sputtering conclusion with Cornell losing six of its final seven contests. The Red’s two league victories tied Columbia for the sixth spot in the Ivy League.

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Large Senior Class Built Football Foundation

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Every year college football programs around the nation struggle to fill the void that is created when its senior class graduates. This is the norm, not the exception, as Cornell can attest.
With 33 seniors on the 2008 roster, Cornell will be hard pressed to develop a class of players as dedicated, intense and knowledgeable about the game of football as this year’s batch of seniors.
This group comprises the second largest graduating class in the Ivy League — by a slim margin, Yale’s class of 35 is the largest graduating group.
Compared to this year, Cornell only lost 15 players to graduation in 2007. However, this year’s senior class is also distinguished for being the first recruitment class of head coach Jim Knowles ’87.

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McNabb Should Review the Rulebook

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Are you ignorant, Donovan McNabb, or do you just like to propagate the stereotype that all football players are walking, talking meatheads? Why give more ammo to those who believe professional athletes were the kids who tried to fit the square block into the triangle hole back in preschool?
Following a 13-13 tie with the Cincinnati Bengals, McNabb explained to the media at Paul Brown Stadium that he was unaware an NFL game could end in a tie. Here is what a confused Mr. McNabb had to offer:
“I didn’t know that,” said McNabb. “I’ve never been part of a tie. I never even knew it was in the rule book. I was looking forward to getting the opportunity to get out there and try to drive to win the game. But unfortunately with the rules, we settled with a tie.”

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Football Loses Turnover Battle, Game

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NEW YORK, N.Y. — On Saturday afternoon at Wien Stadium, the 3,811 people in attendance at the Cornell-Columbia matchup witnessed two things that have never happened before in college football: Cornell senior quarterback Nathan Ford tossing four interceptions and Columbia winning a football game. Perhaps the latter is an exaggeration, but the Lions’ 17-7 victory marks only the fifth time that the program has captured an Ivy League win in the last five years.
Unfortunately, two of those victories have been at the expense of Cornell.
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Defense Looks to Replicate Success

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In 2007-08, the Cornell defensive corps ranked second in ECAC Hockey, surrendering a scintillatingly-low 1.95 goals per contest. The Red also finished second in penalty killing opportunities, snuffing 85-of-97 (87.6 percent) short-handed situations. This season, the Red blue-liners will be anchored by senior co-alternate captain Jared Seminoff.
“[Head] coach [Mike Schafer ’86] just wants me to play like I normally play, just go out there and be physical and be aggressive and try to get the entire defense on the same line,” Seminoff said. “Nothing’s really changed. We just want to be really aggressive and hit as many people as possible.”