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...such, it is truly impressive that Bernie M. Corbett and Paul Simpson managed to create a captivating sports narrative with great historical context in their new book, The Harvard/Yale Rivalry: The Only Game that Matters...
...pages and 10 well-constructed chapters, Corbett and Simpson interweave the history of football’s “greatest rivalry” and the progression of the 2002 Harvard and Yale teams as they work their way towards The Game. Corbett, the play-by-play announcer for Harvard football for the past seven years, not only manages to document in detail the evolution of football at the two universities, but also the creation of a national pastime...
...Harvard-Yale Game is arguably the start of modern sports rivalry, in which two teams so closely on par in talent and longevity can manifest their quarrel in a measurable three-hour match. Throughout the book, Corbett stresses that without the competition between Harvard and Yale, there would be no modern football, on the college level or otherwise. “There’s no Big House in Ann Arbor without Harvard Stadium!” he says...
According to Corbett, the book will give its reader a real education about how football began, how it developed and how “it got to be the game it is today.” The need of Harvard and Yale men to rebel against rigid campus life through vigorous physical activity, and to prove their superiority against one another in athletic skills developed into the “Boston game” of football...
...speaking with Corbett, it becomes evident that the author knows nearly as much about Harvard and Yale history as he does the stats of the 2004 football team. “You can put these two schools as rivals since the beginning of the institutions themselves,” he says. “Quite simply, the people that started Yale were people that attended Harvard and had gone down to the New Haven colony. One of the main reasons they started the school was that they wanted a place to send their children, without making the trek to send...