Cornell-Harvard hockey rivalry
| Sport | Ice hockey |
|---|---|
| First meeting | January 8, 1910 New York, NY |
| Latest meeting | February 19, 2016 Allston, MA |
| Next meeting | TBD |
| Statistics | |
| Meetings total | 146 |
| All-time series | Cornell, 74–62–10 |
| Largest victory | Harvard, 18–0 (January 10, 1959) |
| Longest win streak |
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| Current win streak | Harvard: 1 (January 27, 2017) |
The Cornell–Harvard hockey rivalry is a men's ice hockey sports rivalry between the Big Red of Cornell University and Crimson of Harvard University dating back to 1910.
Cornell and Harvard play each other twice each regular season with games at Cornell's Lynah Rink in Ithaca, New York and Harvard's Bright Hockey Center in Allston, Massachusetts. The success of both programs ensures that postseason meetings are common. The rivals meet more than twice each season frequently. Cornell and Harvard have met 146 times on the ice including their first contest on January 8, 1910. Cornell leads the series 74–62–10 as of February 19, 2016.
The rivalry between Cornell and Harvard pits the oldest member of the Ivy League that was founded 140 years before the signing of the Declaration of Independence against the youngest member of the Ivy League that in April 2015 celebrated its 150th year of operation. One could muse that the rivalry began with the founding of Cornell University. Ezra Cornell, when confronted with an impasse to the creation of his university in the New York State Senate, quipped famously that "I am not sure but that it would be a good thing for me to give the half a million to old Harvard College in Massachusetts, to educate the descendants of the men who hanged my ancestors." Such animosity would have to wait nearly five decades before it found expression on ice.
Students of academic institutions along the East Coast began forming collegiate hockey clubs around the turn of the 20th century. Yale was among the first institutions to create such a program. It was not long until Cornell and Harvard joined the ranks of their peer institutions in the East on the ice. However, the two programs could not have begun their debuts to a sport, that they both went on to dominate, in more disparate manners. Harvard took the ice in 1898 and lost to future Ivy-League foe Brown 6–0. Cornell earned a 3–0–0 record in 1901, winning contests against Penn, Princeton, and Swarthmore.
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