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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...
...classics" to hit box offices in recent memory are The East American Virgin (lots of bodies, lots of sap), class (lots of Jacqueline Bisset, more sap), and Private Lessons (more of the same, minus Jacqueline Bisset). As long as teenagers continue demand a peek at what lies beyond the locker room producers will continue to churn out such films en masse, with more regard for profits than artistic quality...
...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...
...situations are as colorful as your favorite coming-of-age clichés. These teen-agers are good-looking kids with big dreams and a bright line of patter. The coach carries on like a sensitive drill sergeant, psyching his team into a football frenzy by using curses, inspirational locker-room speeches and the odd face-mask violation. Michael Chapman, who graduated to the director's chair with this film after making his name as the cinematographer of Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Personal Best, brings a virginal intensity to each hoary plot device. He hardly gives his audience...