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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The first football game between Harvard and Yale took place when Ulysses S. Grant was president of the United States, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was a five-year old pre-schooler and the Science Center probably referred to a collection of Bunsen burners somewhere in the basement of Sever Hall. The...

Author: By Aaron R. Cohen, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Harvard-Yale Football: Who Cares | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

The Harvard-Yale football rivalry heated up quickly in the years of The Game's infant years. The clash between America's most elite educational institutions, already competitive off the field, guaranteed that The Game would have a larger resonance. Furthermore, football in its early years was even more of...

Author: By Aaron R. Cohen, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Harvard-Yale Football: Who Cares | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Aaron R. Cohen, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Harvard-Yale Football: Who Cares | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

She'll probably go to The Game, though, to be a part of the 25,000 or so who will be in attendance. "I definitely care if they win," she says, but if they don't, "It won't affect my weekend. It's a school pride thing. And I...

Author: By Aaron R. Cohen, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Harvard-Yale Football: Who Cares | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

Over 30 years later, what is striking is not just the comeback itself, but the fact that the stars had aligned themselves such that with under a minute remaining, Harvard needed two touchdowns plus two two-point conversions to tie the game. No room for error whatsoever. There would be...

Author: By Aaron R. Cohen, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Harvard-Yale Football: Who Cares | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

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