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...That understood, the early years of the Harvard-Yale football rivalry in a sense defined much of the modern sports rivalry, not to mention the modern sports event. Along with the intensity of The Game came a magnitude of spectating rarely seen before in the platform of American sport. The 1883 Game was played at the famous Polo Grounds in New York City, in front of a record 10,000 spectators. By 1902, at Yale Field, 30,000 showed up to watch Yale win 23-0. The hard-crunching action of the sport of football combined with the natural competitive...
...team faltered with the same offensive core, failing to win crucial games and finishing meekly to a 4-6 finish. This year, same story, though thanks to a 5-2 start, the team can still finish with a winning record with a victory in New Haven, not to mention play spoiler to Yale's championship aspirations...
...capsule biography on Gore's Web site skips his Harvard education altogether, going straight from his adolescence in Carthage, Tenn. to his experiences in Vietnam. It does, however, mention his short stint at divinity school...
Dartmouth took Harvard to overtime when it came to Bright last February, but the Crimson prevailed in the extra period (not to mention blowing out the Big Green in the ECAC Tournament semifinals, 8-1). On Friday, both teams played the same way they did last year--Dartmouth likes to lay a body on opponents to slow down the game, while Harvard thrives on its speed and continuous cycling in the offensive zone...
...asked if McCain would pledge to accept no money from industries he oversees. "Absolutely not," said McCain. "I'm sorry." He had to take the money, he said, because "I'm fighting against the massive contributions and six-figure donations" flowing to George W. Bush. McCain didn't mention Bush's name--and didn't have to. His issues are perfect weapons against Bush, who personifies the money game McCain wants to clean up. Otherwise, the two candidates' positions are similar--each opposes gun control and abortion and styles himself as tolerant and fiscally austere--but McCain is playing...