Bostonia: The Alumni Magazine of Boston University

Rekindling a Rivalry

	Colby Cohen (CAS’11) during the Terrier matchup against Cornell last November in Madison Square Garden. Photo by Phoebe Sexton (COM’06)

The Boston University men’s hockey Terriers scored three goals in just over three minutes in the first period and never looked back during the Red Hot Hockey matchup against Cornell on November 24 in Madison Square Garden. Six BU players lifted the Terriers to a 6-3 victory over the Big Red before a sold-out crowd of 18,200. The BU-Cornell rivalry dates back to 1925, when the Terriers posted a 7-2 win in the first meeting of the two teams. In the late 1960s and 1970s, when both schools were members of the ECAC Hockey League, they fought for the title every year, each winning the league crown five times. Before the game, the Friends of BU Hockey and the Boston University Alumni Club of Greater New York sponsored a pep rally at the Garden.

Three BU members of the 1980 gold medal–winning U.S. Olympic hockey team, (from left) Mike Eruzione (SED’77), Jack O’Callahan (CAS’79), and David Silk (CAS’80, GSM’93), sign autographs for Terrier fans at the pep rally. Photo by Michael Nelson

Former BU hockey goalie Michel Larocque (CGS’97, MET’99) at the pep rally with his wife, Kalina Gendel Larocque (SMG’98), son, Pierre, and Terrier men’s head hockey coach Jack Parker (SMG’68, Hon.’97). Photo by Michael Nelson