Word: sadow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even though he doesn't smoke, Sadow likes to spend his free time in Leverett and Peirce, where he can stand in a reverential revery surrounded by Harvard football memorabilia...
Since his undergraduate days, Sadow has been to every Harvard-Yale game. He supplements his first-hand knowledge of Harvard football by assiduously collecting articles and press clippings. He is especially devoted to the cause of freshman football. He points out that today will be the 95th time the Harvard and Yale freshmen have clashed. In that span, Harvard has won 44 games and Yale has won 44 games with six ties. "This is the rubber game," says Sadow...
...brightest starts in the Harvard football firmament when Sadow was an undergraduate were Art French and Dave Guaranacca, who played from 1926-29, while the head coach was none other than Horween. French and Guaranacca were known as "the lateral twins" because they excelled in pitching the ball and then throwing it to one other, a technique Sadow says they learned from two Canadian coaches who came to Cambridge to proselytize the forerunner of the multiflex...
...kernel of Sadow's devotion to Harvard football is his philosophy that one must live the fleeting, evanescent years of youth to their fullest. He delights in quoting the Robert Burns sonnet: "O man! While in thy early years how prodigal of time, mispending all thy precious hours, thy glorious youthful prime...
...Sadow, though, by no means has a pessimistic view of dissipated youth. Quivering with pride on the eve of yet another pitched battle between Harvard and Yale he offers this advice to tomorrow's contestants: "'In the bright lexicon of youth,' said Richilieu, `there is no such thing as fail.' I hope the Harvard varsity and freshmen remember that on Saturday...