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PHILADELPHIA—As Penn kicker Peter Veldman’s 27-yard field goal sailed through the uprights to open the scoring at Franklin Field this Saturday, the Harvard football team breathed a collective sigh of relief. It had just survived a potentially costly Neil Rose fumble on its own 12-yard line and the three-point Quaker lead could have been a lot worse...
Over 100 students, many of them bussed in from Cambridge by the H-Club, arrived early enough at Franklin Field to cheer on the team during ESPN’s live broadcast. They noisily objected when GameDay analysts Lee Corso and Kirk Herbstreit both picked Penn to win, though they couldn’t really argue with the experts at game?...
...Franklin Field...
...thousands of rowdy fans in Philadelphia’s Franklin Field, representing both schools, wanted to know: would Corso come out dressed like a Quaker? A Pilgrim? Would anybody be able to tell the difference...
Corso left no doubts as he obliged the home crowd and appeared in a Benjamin Franklin get-up, predicting that Penn would defeat the Crimson and win the Ivy title on its home turf. And while Corso’s costume may have technically been inaccurate—Franklin isn’t actually Penn’s mascot—its spirit was absolutely correct. Following the genius of its bespectacled founding father, Penn invented a new way to win in this rivalry—by blowout...