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Harvard-Yale Race: held in early June each year on the Thames River in Conn., the Harvard-Yale race in four miles long, as opposed to the usual 2000-meter contest and stresses endurance. Harvard's 18-year hold on the event was broken by the Elis in 1981. The Crimson broke a four-year Bulldog victory string with a triumph in the spring...
...latter game, Teevens threw for 223 yards. In today's contest, it was Harvard's quarterback, Tom Yohe, who exhibited his aerial talents. Yohe completed 16 of 26 passes for 237 yards and tossed three touchdowns. Yohe now has 12 TD passes on the year. Fifteen is the Harvard season record...
...Decent" performances have earned the Crimson an undefeated record (6-0-2 overall, 2-0 Ivy League) heading into today's contest with the Big Green. But Dartmouth's record (6-0-1) doesn't sport any blemishes either...
...Green has a big reason for running after the Crimson. The two teams finished last year's contest--and last year's Ivy race--in a deadlock. Duplicate 3-1-3 records put the pair a notch below league-champion Yale (5-0-2), while a late-game penalty kick by Dartmouth's Vladica Stanojevic knotted the regular season contest...
...annual contest began seven years ago by the hotel chain not only to get publicity, but also "to get to know the people that will be guests in our hotels," says Joanne Torney, the administrative assistant to the general manager of the Hotel Sofitel in Minneapolis, who helped to organize the North American part of the competition...