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...invaluable. The more experienced players on the team kept the Crimson from collpasing in down-to-the-wire games, as Harvard came from behind to upset eventual Ivy champion Brown in double overtime and capped its season with a triple-overtime thriller at the Yale Bowl to win the 122nd edition of The Game.CROUCHING CRIMSON Senior Melissa Anderson and classmate Eva Wang led Harvard to another undefeated Ivy season and a berth in the NCAA Tournament in 2006. Wang went 7-0 at No. 1 singles for the Crimson in Ivy play to earn Ivy League Player of the Year...
...Hagan.With its title hopes still alive, the team traveled to Yale for The Game needing a win and a Brown loss to last-place Columbia to lock up a share of the crown. Harvard did its part, winning 30-24 in epic, comeback fashion in a historic 122nd playing of the rivalry. But Brown also took care of business, handling the Lions 52-21 to lock up the championship.After the thrill of beating Yale wore off, some recognized what could have been. “There was definitely the exhilaration of beating Yale, and that day and that weekend that?...
...rivalry was hardly lacking in drama heading into the 122nd Game, but the film crew couldn’t have scripted a better contest than the one they attended this November. Harvard rallied from a 21-3 deficit in the second half to send the matchup into three frenetic extra periods, marking the first time The Game had ever gone to overtime...
...Berg was also interviewed by Sports Illustrated for an article about this year’s Game, and said he could understand why both the Harvard-Yale rivalry and the 122nd playing of the Game would have drawn the attention of the media...
While Yale is no doubt inferior to Harvard on the gridiron, as evidenced by its fifth straight loss to the Crimson in the 122nd rendition of the Game, Elihu and his New Haven faithful definitely know how to stage sterling tailgates. In fact, painful as it is to admit, Yale deserves a great deal of credit for overseeing tailgates this year that were virtually arrest free and sans any alcohol-related injuries. Not to mention, while roughly 30 individuals were transported from the Yale Bowl and its environs to nearby hospitals after imbibing excessive amounts of alcohol, this number...