Havoc in Hanover

In the wake of Jim Knowles '87's resignation from the football head coach position, director of athletic communications Jeremy Hartigan told the Ithaca Journal that the search for Knowles' replacement will begin immediately.

About that Red power play

Rankings Roundup

Cornell fell to No. 7 in the USCHO poll and No. 8 in the USA Today poll after being ranked No. 5 last week in both.

The southpaw

The men's hockey team obviously has a number of talented freshmen, but one who really stood out this weekend was forward Greg Miller. Miller scored the last goal in the 6-3 win over Harvard, but his sweet lefty snap shot caught our attention earlier in the weekend. He has speed moving up the boards and he took two hard shots against Dartmouth on Friday, as well as a few on Saturday before his goal. Miller has been playing on the second line with junior forwards Patrick Kennedy and Riley Nash, so he should see plenty of scoring chances.

Lynah Rink Cheer Tracker

Friday night's game mostly saw the standard cheers from the Lynah Faithful, but as the Red pulled away late in the game, fans struck up a hearty "We want Harvard" cheer.

Max Seibald '09, last year's lacrosse team captain and all-around unstoppable force on the lacrosse field, is one of 23 players picked to travel to the FIL World Championship in Manchester, England from July 14-24, 2010. Defenseman Ryan McClay '03 will join Seibald on Team USA. Seibald and Ned Crotty, Duke's standout attackman, are the only two 2009 graduates on the team.

Other Ivy League daily papers seem generally unimpressed with Cornell football this season, and they have good reason. The team is 2-4 and hasn't won since Sept. 26, a 14-12 defensive shootout at Yale.

The Harvard Crimson's Loren Amor picked Cornell over Princeton in the paper's weekly Around the Ivies roundup , but wrote that

"Cornell is a mess. Its best quarterback, Stephen Liuzza, is listed at wide receiver but spends most of his time at running back, which I think says it all."

The Daily Pennsylanian's Ivy preview calls out coach Knowles on his uninspiring quotes in the video posted on Cornell's Athletics website: