Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crafty. Even me, a long-time proponent of anti-Man doctrine, can succumb to the wily charm of The Man. Around Halloween an old friend from high school managed to get me into Starbucks, the very den of The Man. And as I paid for my coffee, I saw it. A cute little teddy bear, all dressed up for Halloween in a black velvet skeleton costume. His acrylic eyes, his fuzzy synthetic fur--it was all too much. I forked over the cash and brought the bear home. What easier way for the Man to gain access to my home...
...than a football game. It was played in New Haven, and about 150 Harvard men accompanied the Harvard team to Connecticut in carriages. Everyone was put up at a lodging called the New Haven House, and on Saturday morning, rather than tailgate, the Yale men drove their Cambridge counterparts around New Haven, showing off objects of interest in town. The game started at 2:30 p.m. (this year's game starts at 12:30) and was played at a place known as Hamilton Park. The price of admission was 50 cents. On a sour note, seven Harvard students were arrested...
...balance of the 19th century, the Harvard-Yale game represented the clash of the two strongest teams around. Despite outscoring opponents by the likes of season marks of 765 to 41, 660 to 23, and 588 to 26, Yale beat Harvard in all but two of their meetings through the turn of the century. In 1892, the Crimson introduced the controversial and soon-to-be-outlawed flying wedge offense, creating havoc for the Yale defense. Also, though the Harvard Faculty had backed off, the roughness of the game continued; strong but weaker-than-Yale Harvard teams compensated for their inferiority...
...Arkady Gerney '96-'98 and Tim Cullen '96 are tailgaters. They live together now in Cambridge. As a freshman way back in 1992, Tim and a prospective student he was hosting walked all around the outer fields and parking lots in Allston looking for a welcome tailgate and came up empty. With the morning passing by, they took what they had--a bottle of wild turkey--and drank it. What began was the concept of the Wild Turkey Party...
...stadiums capable of holding over tens of thousands of spectators, attendance at their games was low enough to merit a I-AA classification. Yes, thousands will show up for The Game on Saturday, but the rest of the season, attendances have been dismal--for Harvard, an average hovering around...