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...love-hate relationship between undergraduates at Yale and Robert S. Brustein, dean of the graduate Yale School of Drama since 1966 and director of the Yale Repertory Theater, has become something of a tradition, as basic as Yale-Harvard rivalry. But it is a tradition, many Yale undergraduates say, founded on specific grievance--grievances accumulated over Brustein's 12-year term at Yale...
Mounds of correspondence concerning the origins of Harvard's intense rivalry with Yale can also be found, including a letter praising Forbes for succeeding in making the Yale game the last contest of the season. Said the alumnus correspondent, writing prophetically in 1898: "It not only insures our eleven being at its very best but also makes the Yale-Harvard game THE GAME of the season, a position the Yale-Princeton game has heretofore held." And it's been that way ever since...
After a scoreless first half marred by sloppy play, the Bullpups got THE break that often decides Yale-Harvard epics. Todd Elkins' fumble of a Yale punt put the sluggish Eli offense in business deep in Crimson territory...
...which has very little and a great deal to do with tomorrow's Harvard-Yale game (or Yale-Harvard, depending on which side of the Stadium you sit.) That my grandfather, and his teammates, beat Harvard 6-0 seventy years ago doesn't mean much to me; that I have a link, in some way with him (a man I never met) when I sit down on that concrete touches me inexplicably. I make no claims of being unique. Perhaps that is the strength of The Game, thousands of others who find they have links to the past, to relatives...
Lynch's field goal with 33 seconds remaining in the game capped a 73-yard winning drive in the 100th anniversary game of the Yale-Harvard series...