Word: game
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...success of both football teams continued, and the rivalry flourished. With Harvard so dominant during the balance of seasons, the Yale game became something of a test for the Crimson and always one of the toughest games of the season. In undefeated seasons in 1890, 1898, 1899, 1910, 1912, 1913 and 1919, the Crimson was awarded the national championship by the Helms Athletic Foundations...
...Harvard-Yale football rivalry heated up quickly in the years of The Game's infant years. The clash between America's most elite educational institutions, already competitive off the field, guaranteed that The Game would have a larger resonance. Furthermore, football in its early years was even more of a game of force--versus elaborate strategy and skill--than it is today; naturally, any such activity relying on brute combat was certain to stir the tempers and emotions of both the players and fans. The Yale teams were less than observant of the developing set of football rules, and according...
...balance of the 19th century, the Harvard-Yale game represented the clash of the two strongest teams around. Despite outscoring opponents by the likes of season marks of 765 to 41, 660 to 23, and 588 to 26, Yale beat Harvard in all but two of their meetings through the turn of the century. In 1892, the Crimson introduced the controversial and soon-to-be-outlawed flying wedge offense, creating havoc for the Yale defense. Also, though the Harvard Faculty had backed off, the roughness of the game continued; strong but weaker-than-Yale Harvard teams compensated for their inferiority...
...That understood, the early years of the Harvard-Yale football rivalry in a sense defined much of the modern sports rivalry, not to mention the modern sports event. Along with the intensity of The Game came a magnitude of spectating rarely seen before in the platform of American sport. The 1883 Game was played at the famous Polo Grounds in New York City, in front of a record 10,000 spectators. By 1902, at Yale Field, 30,000 showed up to watch Yale win 23-0. The hard-crunching action of the sport of football combined with the natural competitive...
...probably go to The Game, though, to be a part of the 25,000 or so who will be in attendance. "I definitely care if they win," she says, but if they don't, "It won't affect my weekend. It's a school pride thing. And I'm definitely a very competitive person...