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Understanding last year's scenario goes a long way towards understanding this year. Last year, the Crimson (5-4-1 overall, 2-1-1 Ivy) came into the match-up still reeling from its first Ivy loss, a 3-1 decision to Princeton which knocked it out of first place in the Ivy standings...
...emotion and history wrapped up in this match-up. It's the perennial struggle between two preppy, old style, Eastern Universities. It's Cambridge vs. Princeton. It's final clubs vs. eating clubs. It's John Kennedy vs. Woodrow Wilson. It's simply...
Today, Harvard hosts Yale in its first league match-up in over a week...
...Game does not need redundant modifiers. When Stanford plays California, promoters dub the match-up "The Big Game" because everybody knows...
...younger Democratic challengers have a poor record against older Republican incumbents. The last three times this match-up has occurred ended in disasters for Democrats--like Mondale's loss to Reagan in 1984, McGovern's to Nixon in 1972, and Stevenson's to Eisenhower in 1956. The last Democrat to succeed in this situation was Franklin Roosevelt '04, who beat Hoover...