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...Corbett vibrantly captures the best games in Harvard-Yale history: in particular, the miracle Harvard “win” of 1968, in which Harvard came back from 29-13 to tie 29-29 in the last three and half minutes. In the 1974 game, dubbed “The Best Game,” Harvard not only beat Yale in The Game, but also for the Ivy League Title in a last minute perfect touchdown by the concussed quarterback Milt Holt...
...book is far more than a compilation of unbelievable passes and touchdowns, just as The Game is much more than just four quarters of football. Corbett seems to have a deep understanding that the Bulldogs and Crimson teams are not just talented players, but also destined for greatness outside of athletics. “For two squads of gridiron combatants that were destined to become stockbrockers, investment bankers, corporate lawyers, and doctors, this was a taste of what it was like to play in the Super Bowl,” he says on page...
...read for Harvard and Yale students and alums and football fans, it might also be a real galvanizing tool to reinstate the popularity of the nation’s original football teams. There is a void in the popular consciousness and media exposure of Ivy League sports, especially, as Corbett says, when “ESPN has been overrun by dollars.” Harvard’s own Ryan Fitzpatrick confessed to the authors on page 118 that he “didn’t even know they played football at Ivy League schools until I started getting...
With the nearby Boston College playing on the 1-A level and the New England Patriots soaking up tailgaters each Sunday, there is a very small crowd for Crimson home games and even less space on the pages of The Boston Globe and The Boston Herald. Corbett, as both a participant in and a proponent of Harvard football, believes that if people come in to Soldiers’ Field and give the game a chance early in the season, they will want to keep coming back. Widespread reading of his book may just be the ticket to attracting a local...
...book becomes particularly important with The Crimson’s so-far undefeated and titled season coming to a close this Saturday with the 121st Game. While Corbett refuses to give his prediction for fear of jinxing The Game, he does advise readers to keep an eye out for the Fitzpatrick vs. Cowan match-up, the second meeting of two phenomenal quarterbacks...