Word: gaming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pennsylvania, too, was living an impossible dream, and a crowd of 2,000 expected a tight game on October 28 when the Quakers met the Crimson. But the potential of the Crimson, so obscure in pre-season exhibitions, was again apparent, though again not its limits. What was supposed to be another tight game, a possible defeat for Harvard, ended in a rout. The Quakers went home after a 28-6 shellacking and there wasn't much to drink to in the Penn fraternities...
...sweep past the tiny nine points the offense had amassed, the defense came up with a play to plug up the dam. A goal-line stand, a key interception by Tommy Wynne, and a come from behind chase down tackle by Mike Georges were the highlights. But the Princeton game gave the pessimists something to talk about "George Lalich can't pass," was the new phrase. But at least mention of the Big Hole has disappeared...
...powerful, too far removed. And always there had been a more immediate task at hand. And yet, after an easy rout of Brown, here they were. A Cinderella team facing the might Eli. Somehow it was impossible, and in the euphoric week before The Game people seemed to float from place to place. Harvard sophomores got rich with tickets going for $200 each. The pundits were almost too numb to write about the biggest college game in decades. The old grads were in the finest hour...
Every obnoxious Yalie I know came up to me in the week before The Game to tell me tales of the fabulous Brian Dowling and Calvin Hill. They moved the clouds and made the sun shine. They walked on water. They lived like Gods...
...group of about 40 guys, none of whom, not even Vic Gatto, was a superstar, but all of whom wanted to win. It doesn't look like much on paper, and it didn't sound like much to the Yalies, but for anyone who saw the Harvard-Yale football game it was the margin of victory...