Word: lockers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Semi-legal activities over the years have included a 1908 incident in which Harvard Coach Percy Haughton reputedly strangled a bulldog in the locker room. The scene later proved to have been slightly amplified from Haughton's tying a papiermache canine to his car and dragging...
Game memories apparently stay with participants no matter where they go after leaving the locker room--even if it's Capitol Hill. "One hundred years after the Crimson faced off against the Bulldogs for the first time, and of course defeated them, the Harvard-Yale game remains a highlight of the football season," says Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) "I played in The Game myself (unfortunately Harvard lost but I did catch a touchdown pass...
...major complaint was that Restic was difficult to comunicate with and remained unacceptably aloof. "You never see him in the locker room, win or lose," James P. Mullen '82 said at the time. Some players felt they were competing with the multiflex itself. "If we win, it's the multiflex's gain. If we lose it's because we don't have the personnel," one player said...
Whatever the merits of the complaints made in the letter, the problems mentioned do not seem to exist to any great degree this season. Restic frequently makes appearances in the locker room after games, and has publicly complained of inadequate personnel at only one position--quarterback...
...tell [the players], `Just remember how you felt when you came into that locker room,'" Restic said. "That one [last year's game] is gonna help us if you look at it in a very positive way. All those people who were in that game have a chance to even the score...