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From chants to cowbells to standing students, Big Red games have been a colorful ritual for generations<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Lindsay Lennon <\/strong>& Beth Saulnier<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are sports fans\u2014and then there\u2019s the Lynah Faithful. Though Cornell first had a hockey team in the early 20th century, the rink\u2019s opening in the 1950s spawned a family of fiercely dedicated supporters, complete with their own set of traditions. Decades later, it\u2019s still going strong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt brings the community together so well,\u201d season ticket holder Scott Pesner \u201987 says of the Lynah culture, \u201cboth the students and people from the Ithaca area.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now an officer of the fan-centered Cornell Hockey Association<\/a> (CHA), Pesner fell in love with Big Red Hockey while playing in the pep band during games\u2014so much so that he cites conducting the group at Lynah as highlights of his senior year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The crowd, in panorama. (CHA<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ned Dykes, DVM \u201974, by contrast, never ventured into the rink during his days as a busy veterinary student. But after joining the radiology faculty at CVM, he started attending games in the \u201990s, eventually becoming an avid volunteer photographer for the CHA. He became part of the Faithful subset affectionately dubbed the \u201cTownies\u201d\u2014local fans, some of whom have been sitting in the same seats for generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere are so many little \u2018rink rats,\u2019\u201d Dykes says, using the fond term for children of the Faithful. \u201cThey grew up running around the rink, they married and stayed in Ithaca\u2014and now their kids are running around there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the stands, the demographics are clear among the sea of red. Students cluster on one side, and remain standing throughout the game\u2014sitting only during the breaks between periods. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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More cowbell! (CHA<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cThe Cornell hockey traditions have been widely imitated but never equaled,\u201d Jim Roberts \u201971 and Arthur Mintz \u201971 write in Forever Faithful: Celebrating the Greatest Moments of Cornell Hockey<\/a>.<\/em> \u201cThere may be other universities with more impressive facilities, but there\u2019s nothing like Lynah Rink. Programs like Boston College and the University of Michigan have more national championships, but the reputation of Big Red hockey stands out. Being a member of the Lynah Faithful is something that stays with you all your life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 4,267-seat rink that\u2019s home to Big Red hockey and its fans was constructed in 1957\u201358; it was named in honor of James Lynah 1905, Cornell\u2019s athletic director from 1935\u201343. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Being a member of the Lynah Faithful is something that stays with you all your life.<\/p>\nJim Roberts \u201971<\/strong> & Arthur Mintz \u201971<\/strong>, Forever Faithful<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Previously, home games had been held on Beebe Lake\u2014until a series of mild winters in the late 1940s forced the University to scrap the program. Varsity hockey wouldn\u2019t resume on the Hill until the opening of Lynah a decade later. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And as the Big Red men\u2019s team became more and more successful\u2014winning national titles and sending players to the pros\u2014Faithful traditions grew and solidified. They even grew beyond Lynah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMaybe most of all, I remember the fans,\u201d legendary NHL goalie Ken Dryden \u201969 writes in his foreword to Forever Faithful<\/em>. \u201cThe ones who camped out overnight in raw Ithaca weather to get their season tickets. The ones who went on the road with us, to Christmas tournaments in Boston or New York, and the two or three thousand who sounded like 10,000 at the ECACs in Boston Garden. They taught us a life lesson\u2014always do what you do where it matters.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The student section, always upstanding. (Jason Koski \/ Cornell University<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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In Lynah, the Faithful traditions are many, colorful, and\u2014it must be said\u2014a tad harsh on the opposing squad. The visiting team\u2019s goal tender, for example, is routinely derided as a particularly porous piece of kitchen equipment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or, as Adriano Manocchia \u201997, BS \u201998, puts it on elynah.com<\/a>: \u201cthe Faithful must remind the opposing goalie that while we have a goalie, he is merely a sieve.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a student, Manocchia had a key role in Faithful fandom: revving up the crowd by playing the cowbell. (The tradition traces its origin to Neil Cohen \u201972, then a freshman in the pep band, who brought a cowbell to a game and repurposed an old high school cheer\u2014a staccato rhythm peppered by \u201cFight!\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to other goalie-centered invective\u2014not the least of which is shouting \u201cIt\u2019s all your fault!\u201d when Cornell scores\u2014the Faithful show disinterest in the opposing lineup by pretending to read newspapers (and chanting \u201cBoring!\u201d) when the other team is introduced, then crumpling the pages and chucking them onto the ice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Reminding the opposing goalie of his fate. (CHA<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Now-retired \u201cZamboni guy\u201d Dave Nulle, whose costumes entertained the crowds for three decades. (Lindsay France \/ Cornell University<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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A young fan at Big Red\u2019s 5-1 rout of Princeton in 2019. (Dave Burbank \/ Cornell Athletics<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Longtime announcer Arthur Mintz \u201971. (Provided<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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The tubas! (OK, sousaphones.) (Darl Zehr \/ Cornell Athletics<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Staffers and kids support the home team. (Jason Koski \/ Cornell University<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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The Big Red shuts out Harvard 2-0 in 2019. (Cornell Athletics<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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On the road in Lake Placid for the ECAC tournament. (CHA<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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The Senior Night traditions include players taking a farewell lap. (CHA<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Ignoring the visiting lineup. (Eldon Lindsay \/ Cornell Athletics<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Crumpled newspapers soar over the glass. (CHA<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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It\u2019s fishy: mocking Harvard. (CHA<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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A view from the Pep Band. (Cornell University<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>
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And speaking of throwing things on the ice\u2014which you should not do; we\u2019re reporting, not encouraging!<\/em>\u2014there is, of course, the longtime tradition of tossing fish before the Harvard game (and tubes of toothpaste when the Big Red plays Colgate).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFollowing the Big Red hockey team is something that really solidified our experience as Cornell students, both as undergraduates as well as when we returned to do our PhDs,\u201d says Katie Nelson Schoenberg \u201903, PhD \u201910, whose husband, Jonathan Schoenberg \u201903, PhD \u201911, performed as a skating Touchdown between periods. \u201cWe have lifelong friendships that were created around it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Given the Faithful\u2019s fervent fandom, it\u2019s unsurprising that Lynah has the reputation of\u2014as Roberts and Mintz write\u2014being \u201cdetested by opponents and loved by the home team.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Saluting the fans. (Cornell University<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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But it has also been posited that some visiting players find the atmosphere a welcome challenge\u2014that it revs them up and encourages them to play their best. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(That may have a limited effect, though: Big Red men\u2019s hockey has won more than 70 percent of its home contests, including a stunning 63-game streak in 1967\u201372.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And even on the minority of occasions when Cornell doesn\u2019t emerge victorious at home, the evening ends with a touching coda. Win or lose, the players raise their sticks toward the crowd before exiting the ice\u2014offering a salute to the Faithful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top: Players and fans celebrate a goal. (CHA)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published February 28, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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