Word: teaming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...star and father of Detroit Piston Grant Hill, and Brian Dowling, a quarterback who had not lost a game as a starter since junior high school and would later gain most fame as the inspiration for the character of B.D. in Gary Trudeau's "Doonesbury" comic. A powerful Yale team had defeated an emerging Harvard unit narrowly the year before, setting the stage for a showdown for the Ivy League championship...
...League culture combined to create an event that players, students and alumni could look forward to each year. It was a precursor to any college football Big Game of today; Florida/Florida State; Michigan/Ohio State; Stanford/Cal--they're all descendants of the original Game, a test to determine the best team in a league, region, or, in especially exciting seasons, country...
...Caroline Turcotte '00 is the fellow athlete. She's a senior on the women's rugby team, the closest thing the University has to a female football team. Despite the connection that the sports have on the field, Turcotte has a bit of trouble drawing a bond to the football players, reasoning that "we mostly play for ourselves as opposed to an audience...
...fact that the stars had aligned themselves such that with under a minute remaining, Harvard needed two touchdowns plus two two-point conversions to tie the game. No room for error whatsoever. There would be no possibility of a win, only a tie. Circumstance so rarely affords any team or individual to play out a heroic miracle such as that; when and while it happens, it almost seems preordained that the miracle outcome might manifest...
...think the members of the band care--it's more fun that way. It's more fun to watch a winning team than a losing team. We knew that the [Brown] game for them was the key game for them, and it didn't quite happen...