Football
For 26 Seniors, a Final Whistle They Never Wanted To Hear
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“We didn’t want to leave. We didn’t want to step off that turf for the last time,” senior linebacker Jackson Weber said. “We don’t want to take our pads off and hang it up.”
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“We didn’t want to leave. We didn’t want to step off that turf for the last time,” senior linebacker Jackson Weber said. “We don’t want to take our pads off and hang it up.”
With five games, over 1,800 miles on a bus and three trips to New England under their belt, the men of Cornell hockey finally returned for a game at home in front of the Lynah Faithful — the last team in Division I hockey to do so.
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Four years of cutting summers short for training camp, four go-arounds of seemingly endless days in the weight room and four seasons of donning the carnelian and white all led up to to this weekend’s tilt against Penn for the Red’s group of 26 seniors.
“We need all four lines rolling,” sophomore forward Beau Starrett said. “I think that’s going to take us far this year.”
Before Saturday’s meeting, the Red and Green have faced off on the gridiron 99 times in a rivalry dating back to 1900. In the centennial meeting in Ithaca, Dartmouth captured its 59th win of the series in a come-from-behind 17-13 wi
While the Red’s loss to Merrimack was frustrating, the team did see momentum heading into the last period that it hopes to carry over into the coming weekend.
The team’s 3-0 start — once the talk of campus — now seems like a distant memory. After four straight losses, this one by far the most embarrassing, the Red now sits at 3-4 with three games left in the season.
This week’s opponent is a high-powered Princeton team, hungry after an overtime loss to league-leading Harvard that boasts the Ivy League’s top offense and has gotten the best of Cornell the last three years. The Red will have its work cut out, and in order to get back to its winning ways, it must use these three keys.