Word: contests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that historical '75 was really no more than A GAME, and even that's stretching it. THE GAME implies 16-point Harvard comebacks in the final minute, or Pineapple Milt Holt darting left with the winning touchdown as the clock all but expires. THE GAME does not imply the contest we are about to recall, the 100th anniversary of the Harvard-Yale tong war, the meeting which was decided when Lynch made a football look like a wobbly duck yet still got it to travel the required 26 yards up and barely over the goal posts...
...recall this contest because it was the lone Harvard-Yale encounter I witnessed as an undergraduate. As a freshman the year before, a ground-level seat in the end zone impaired my sight. As a junior the year after, too much alcohol impaired my senses. And last fall? Yale's overpowering performance impaired my desire to look...
That the Crimson should open this contest by exhibiting signs of sluggishness came as a surprise only to those who had been vacationing at Gilligan's Island the week before. Seven days previous in Providence, after all, Harvard had knocked the league's up-and-coming power, Brown, out of championship contention. The 45-26 thrashing was made doubly embarrassing by the fact ABC had beamed the mismatch all across the cast coast...
Since the revision Harvard has opposed Brown and Yale five times entering today's contest. The Crimson's combined record? 0-5. Three short years, hah? Says...
...Class of 1979, in celebration of its 25headed the drive to build Harvard Stadium; and with thesupport of its $100,000 fund-raising effort, the $310,000,23,000-seat structure came into being on November 14, 1903,as Harvard lost to Dartmouth, 11-0, in the monument'sdedicatory contest...