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...make this quiz real simple for the Yale kids reading. Something of the multiple-choice variety should be more familiar to you guys. Harvard will win the 123rd edition of The Game, one of college football’s most storied rivalries, at Harvard Stadium tomorrow because: a. Its running back and quarterback, Clifton Dawson and Liam O’Hagan, are a more talented and experienced version of Yale’s own rusher-passer duo—Mike McLeod and Matt Polhemus. b. Its defense, ranked first in the nation in fewest rushing yards allowed and sacks...
Read thecrimson.com/sports.aspx for Crimson Live coverage of Harvard-Yale, straight from the Harvard Stadium press box. Join David H. Stearns ’07, the dean of Ivy League football coverage, as he covers every kickoff in The Crimson’s exclusive Harvard-Yale weblog...
...scrounging around for spare tickets from friends, House lists and even eBay. Though The Game sold out the last three times Harvard hosted it, this is the earliest it’s been sold out since 1986, Harvard Athletic Ticket Office manager Erin E. Hobin-Audet said yesterday. Total stadium capacity is about 31,000 people, and every Harvard seat has been sold by the ticket office or distributed to undergraduates, Hobin-Audet said. “We had some bleachers brought in for the end zones. Those were also sold out this year, which we did not have...
...actually use their tickets to go to the game. They don’t just drink to oblivion and ask, ‘Who won?’”Of course, one might argue The Game is worth one’s attendance just to see Harvard Stadium, a National Historic Landmark for which football itself has changed. The forward pass, the stuff of decades of highlight reels, was adopted because the sport was played in a dangerously confined manner 100 years ago, and the Crimson’s concrete venue could not be widened to stretch...
...Harvard-Yale Game ticket supply, like the tailgate outside, has run dry. Tickets to the annual Game, entering its 123rd year, sold out yesterday afternoon, the Department of Athletics announced. The Game was sold out in 2004, the last year it was played at Harvard Stadium, The Crimson reported at the time. Tardy ticket-seekers may be left to watch the action on the TV screen—WLVI-TV 56 will broadcast the Game starting at noon. A former New York Yankees radio broadcaster, Charley Steiner, who now calls games for the Los Angeles Dodgers, will provide the play...