Word: bowling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Corky, they've sold out the Yale Bowl," he tells his friend. "I don't think that's happened since we played in the fifties...
...expect for the Harvard-Yale game; alumni drink $12-a-bottle scotch at the front of the train, students smoke $35-an-ounce marijuana at the back. When the train arrives, cabs and buses wait to whisk denizens of the game to Yale's campus, and to the Yale Bowl where the game will be played. In Yale Bowl parking lots old friends gather to sip champagne and pick at delicacies spread across station-wagon tailgates. Antique autos abound, many of which remain in storage all year except for this and perhaps a few other special occasions. At Morey...
...spectators reach the Yale Bowl they segregate themselves and go to sit on the side of Harvard or on the side of Yale. With some exception, their proximity to the fifty yard line is proportional to the length and extent of affiliation with their respective universities. Juniors from the class of 1977 sit together on the ten yard line, fund-raisers from the class of 1947 sit together on the fifty. But here it is not class against class; it is Harvard against Yale. With all the ferocity of rivals who are more alike than dissimiliar, the fans exhort their...
...final minutes Harvard mounts a drive and fights its way down to the Yale nine-yard line. With 33 seconds left on the clock, Harvard kicker Mike Lynch toes the ball barely over the goalpost crossbar. Ten thousand, perhaps 15,000 men and women of Harvard drown the Yale Bowl with their cheers and screams. Harvard wins, 10-7, for its first undisputed Ivy League championship since the modern league was formed...
William McChesney Martin Jr. (Yale '28), for example, chairman of the Yale Corporation Planning Committee, collared a Crimson editor outside of the Yale Bowl and attempted to have him arrested by a nearby policeman...