Word: pranking
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...dying sod of Harvard Stadium, an MIT-planted prank stole the show and avenged years of on-field football absence at the 99th playing of The Game...
Midway through the second quarter, a giant balloon began to grow out of the ground near mid-field, halting play and eventually capturing national headlines. At the time, WBZ-TV sportscaster Bob Lobel said it was perhaps the greatest college prank of all time. The Boston Globe’s Michael Madden agreed, calling it “the prank of pranks”, while footage of the event was broadcast nationally on CBS. This year’s Harvard-Yale game marks the twentieth anniversary of the MIT prank, an event burned in the memories of those who witnessed...
...device that would spray-paint “MIT” in the field. Once again luck was not in their favor as a group of Brown students burnt a “B” onto the Harvard Stadium turf with lye a few weeks before the planned prank...
...upon a trove of clues. A matted area in the brush opposite the school suggested that the sniper had lain in wait for his victim. Police also found a tarot "death" card with the message "Mister Policeman, I am God." The card, which may turn out to be a prank by someone familiar with the Vietnam War habit of leaving calling cards on the bodies of Viet Cong, was sent to the feds to be analyzed for fingerprints and DNA. The card, it would later be reported, also contained a request not to tell the media about its existence. "There...
Tourists said they were not phased by the prank...