Like Harmony, the highlight of my winter term was going to my first Dartmouth hockey game. However, this wasn't just any hockey game...this was THE Princeton game. Here at Dartmouth we have a lot of traditions, and the Dartmouth-Princeton hockey game is one of them. When Dartmouth scores its first goal against Princeton we pelt the Princeton goalie with tennis balls! It may be sort of mean spirited, but its tradition--so it's okay!. Every year we get a delay of game charge because a crew has to clear off the ice. This year was even funnier than most because the first goal we scored didn't wind up counting so people threw all the tennis balls and then realized that the ref had taken away our point. When we did score again, another wave of tennis balls flooded the ice! We got two delay of game charges that game! It was amazing to see so many lime green tennis balls on the ice and to see the crews scrambling to get them up.
Now I can check this off of my list of traditions I've taken part in at Dartmouth. Check out picture and video from Princeton games!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN-zE3uGxUU
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