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...been on view in the U.S. for 150 years. Whenever the 11th man from any European town emigrated to the States, a football team got organized. Football, the real variety, is an American game, too. Since the 19th century, whether it was Scottish mill hands in New Jersey, Portuguese fishermen in Massachusetts, Ukrainian steel workers in Pennsylvania, Italian masons and Irish sandhogs in New York City, or German brewers and shopkeepers in Missouri, one ethnicity after the next established its community and its football, not necessarily in that order...
...North Division and advanced to the Ivy League Championship Series (ILCS). This time around, the defending conference champions didn’t have quite enough firepower to repeat. In the ILCS, the Crimson faced South Division winner Princeton for a best-of-three series in New Jersey, but the Tigers only needed two games to defeat the Crimson. Leaning on its pitching staff, Princeton surrendered just three runs on nine hits in the series to wrestle the Ivy title back from the defending champs. “On the whole, it was a good year. We definitely overachieved...
...freshly minted Sox devotees in the wake of Boston’s improbable comeback against the Yankees in the 2004 American League Championship Series. The nightmare was just beginning.“I wasn’t really worried before I got here,” said New Jersey resident Amit Kumar ’08, another transplant from Yankees country. “But it became really annoying once I got to Harvard.” As Kumar notes, the “pseudo-Red Sox fans”—the ones who abandon their hometown teams...
...zip—gave him the all-time school record for interceptions.As most of the 57,000-plus in attendance concentrated on the action on the field or their conversations in the bleachers, one partisan was on a different mission. A joyous woman in a replica No. 2 Williams jersey came barreling down the aisle, intent on reaching the first row. And there was Steven waiting for her, detached from the mass of uniforms on the sideline for a moment, looking into the stands, the record-breaking interception ball held aloft. Smiling from ear to ear, she took the ball...
...School Class Day, 2:30, with speaker Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, New Jersey. Holmes Field...