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More precisely, the icemen go in search of a strange and unique whale, not the Moby Dick of Melville's time but a larger, more formidable opponent made of concrete and aluminium...
...scientific name is Ingalls Rink-or rinkus ingallsus, as Virgil might have referred to it. But in the vernacular, this killer of Crimson teams past is known as the Yale Whale...
Coach Ahab--some call him "Bill Cleary '56" -- hasn't escaped New Haven with a win since the 1976-77 season. True, some of those games weren't played in the 2908-person-capacity Whale, but in the 9000-seat New Haven coliseum, where the Crimson is 0-2-2. Yet this fact remains: the Whale has swallowed Harvard three times...
...before the final paper was due, and so she dredged up the essay her roommate had written three years ago, to such an enthusiastic reception. She handed it in the next morning, but to be on the safe side, she took off the title page, with the little blue whale drawn...
After a couple of weeks, the paper was returned, with a short message on the bottom: "C plus--where's the whale...