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Following a long-standing tradition, the Eliot team arrived for the game fortified by alcohol, while beer was supplied at the sidelines by the Eliot House Committee. After the game the team celebrated its victory by jumping into a huge mud puddle outside Dillon Field House, a custom initiated last year in a similar puddle at Yale...
Longest Run in Harvard-Yale game: Two weeks. In 1958 Harvard tackle Marty Lefski ate 497 prunes as part of a Pi Eta Club initiation on the eve of The Game. As a result, Lefski did not play in the classic and didn't make it out of the Dillon Field House bathroom until the beginning of reading period...
They have also been through the years of changing in a tiny locker room at Palmer Dixon Tennis Court, with two showers for 30 players, and through the early days at Dillon, getting "dirty looks," having problems getting taped, and feeling "definitely unwanted." For them, acceptance at the field house is also part of their victory. "People ask us how we did when we come in now," says Dupuis, adding that "we feel like we finally matter...
First for lunch--you have to have something in your system after all--an hour to digest and get psyched and then the walk to Dillon...
Gerald "Joe" Restic sat quietly on the Square Office of Dillon Field House as his wife, Betty confronted the throng of reporters outside the door. Restic, the apparent loser of a long and arduous battle for the Ivy League title, was too tired and hoarse to deliver the message himself...