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...past five years, the winner of the Penn-Harvard showdown has gone on to win the Ivy title. Unless Yale rises from the ashes against Princeton or the Big Green stuns the Bears, the Crimson-Quakers duel will likely decide third place or, at best, second...
Maybe it’s because they meet so late in the year. Maybe it’s a result of their shared dominance in the Ivy League. For whatever reason, the fact remains—the Penn-Harvard rivalry game has determined the Ivy champion for the last five years...
...parity this season. But the annual Penn-Harvard battle has gathered so much steam over the years that it’s hard to accept that this time, it’s merely a footrace for second. Maybe it’s because the beginning of this season started out like its predecessors—Penn and Harvard, firmly entrenched at the top of the media poll. Brown was the sexy underdog pick, but an early double-overtime loss at Harvard Stadium put the Bears at a disadvantage from the get-go. Another Penn-Harvard matchup, it seemed...
Lost in the whole Penn-Harvard debate is the fact that, while the Quakers and Crimson split the 16 first-place votes, Brown walked away with zero. The Bears, which led Harvard by 21 at half and came within a desperation drive of topping Penn, lost none of its key skill position players and returns a solid defense anchored by Zak DeOssie...
...only time I have seen Briggs filled like that was for last year's Penn-Harvard game, which only proves that talent brings spectators. And the more talent you have, the more satisfied the spectators will...