Word: bus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cold. I was tired and hungry. I ran to the Freshman Union, in front of which was a bus leaving for New Haven. "Got any room?" I asked the driver...
...then The Game was over. It got dark fast. I forgot where I was supposed to meet the bus. It was cold and I had no gloves. I was hungry, too, but there were no concessions stands, just old folks wearing Yale blue next to rows and rows of cars with oceans of ham and cheese and roast beef flowing out the back. But whenever I approached, they'd look at me dubiously. A guy would say, "May I help you?" and I'd say, "No, just looking, thanks." Oceans of ham and cheese and roast beef. And I couldn...
There were bonfires on the fields where I walked. I marched from bonfire to bonfire, warming my hands, looking in the distance for the bus. Wind wrapped around me like a blanket. I began to shiver. There were still chants, worn-over remnants of a sad Game. "Har-vard sucks. Har-vard sucks...
...bus was stuck in a patch of mud on the far end of the hundredth field I had traversed that day. On the ride back to Cambridge, I kept seeing flashes of The Game. Tiny dots of blue and crimson moving on a field of green. The blue dots were just better that day. Then I thought about the girl at B.U. and the goldfish...
Like his teammates, Barringer is excited about the upcoming contest against Yale. For the first time since 1975, The Game will determine the undisputed Ivy League champion. Barringer hopes he's on the bus headed to title town...