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...three separate airings on ESPN and ESPN2, the members of the Harvard football team were featured in an NFL Films-produced segment on the history of The Game. The piece ran as part of a 30-minute package entitled “Ivy Leaguers” (the second half was a profile of former Crimson linebacker Isaiah Kacyvenski ’00). It used footage from Harvard practices as well as from this year’s Game, a 30-24 triple-overtime Crimson victory. Though the players were aware of the NFL Films camera crew at the time...
...Though the film crew interviewed both O’Hagan and Harvard captain Erik Grimm during the week of The Game, the final nine-minute segment ultimately did not include that footage. A 44-minute version is in the works to air on the NFL Network this fall, however, and Schmidt said the player interviews as well as more clips of Murphy would appear in the longer version...
...addition to The Game footage, the segment included interviews with historians, former players, Harvard coach Tim Murphy and Yale coach Jack Siedlecki, and New York governor George Pataki, Yale Class of 1967. It also touched on the rivalry aspect, with shots of both a “Yale Sucks” pep-rally flyer and students wearing “Huck Farvard” t-shirts. Distressingly for Harvard students, there was also mention of a now-infamous 2004 prank in which a group of Yale students tricked spectators on the Harvard side of the stadium into spelling...
...segment included illustrations, black-and-white photos, and grainy footage from the earliest days of the sport to show the evolution of football from its genesis on the playing fields of Cambridge and New Haven...
...postseason tournament. One misstep against an inferior team could very well punch an irreparable hole in the best hopes Harvard has had in years to beat out Penn for the Ivy League’s automatic NCAA tournament berth.Harvard enters the crucible coming off the last and toughest segment of its non-conference schedule, having been dominated in blowout road losses to physical Boston College and Southern Methodist teams.The Crimson will not face nearly as imposing a presence in the Big Green, which sits with Princeton at the bottom of the league standings.The major challenge for Harvard will instead...