Word: game
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Yale football game is neither the oldest football rivalry in the country nor is the gridiron the most ancient meeting place of the two famous rivals. The contest has come however, to have an almost legendary distinction which probably harks back to the days when it represented something very like the championship of the United States. Whatever the explanation, there is still no doubt that it is impossible for men of either institution to imagine anything quite like this game...
...Haven which Harvard men cannot understand, there are things in Cambridge which the men from Yale look upon with astonishment and a certain sceptical disdain. But there is one point upon which the men of both institutions are equally agreed; they want to make the Harvard Yale game the finest sporting event in the country...
...propheay the outcome of this year's Yale-Harvard game--in fact to foretell the result of any big football game is a thing I prefer to keep away from, for pre-game smiles can very easily be inurned into tears as the game progresses...
From past performances, if scores mean anything, I think Yale with victories over Dartmouth, Army, and Princeton ought to enter the game a favorite, and I hope it does for from a psychological point that will give the Harvard team a distinct advantage...
...that as a rule the English student places relatively little store by efficient management and well developed organization in his sports. In rugby, for example, matches of one kind or another start almost with the season, and from then on the participants are far more concerned with playing the game than with learning how to play...