CONTINUING THE RIVALRY ON ICE?
During its inception, the Rivalry on Ice was only granted a two-year trial. Now that those two years have passed, the future of the game hangs in limbo. But the sentiment from both teams is clear—Harvard and Yale want to suit up in Madison Square Garden for the foreseeable future.
“We’re very grateful of [the organizers],” Donato said. “I think there’d be a lot of reasons why this would be something great to carry on.”
Mark Messier and Billie Jean King were among the 12,774 people that saw Yale take home the Rivalry on Ice trophy for the second straight year.
“I certainly would like better results,” Donato said. “But I think the event itself is great. To play in Madison Square Garden in front of great crowds…. In a lot of ways, we couldn’t be happier with the game.”
—Staff writer Kurt T. Bullard can be reached at kurtbullard@college.harvard.edu.