Word: yale
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...Yale Season Review
...Early on Saturday morning, Sherwood "Woody" McClelland '00 will be duking it out with Yale already--on the chess board. McClelland, the president of the Harvard Chess Club, and accredited "Life Master," will lead the Crimson as they vie for their eighth straight victory in as many years in The Chess Match. The match was first staged in 1909 and held discontinuously until 1986, at which point the teams deemed the rivalry worth renewing on an annual basis...
...Game arrives for a 116th time on Saturday. With the progression that it has taken in the years since 1885, putting in context what will happen in New Haven the day after tomorrow says much about college football, about Harvard, about Yale and about the people involved. Once upon a time, the Crimson and the Bulldogs did represent the top of the ladder of college football, but with time, as the University presidents and faculty have determined that athletics should take a back seat to academics, the football teams have been surpassed by schools with more lax academic policies...
...only reasons: In 1982, the governing body of college football divided up Division I schools into I-A and I-AA groups. I-A schools have large stadium capacity and large attendance; I-AA schools have small stadium capacities or small attendance numbers. While schools like Harvard and Yale both had stadiums capable of holding over tens of thousands of spectators, attendance at their games was low enough to merit a I-AA classification. Yes, thousands will show up for The Game on Saturday, but the rest of the season, attendances have been dismal--for Harvard, an average hovering around...
...while The Game is a significant contest for the players involved, it is, and always has been as much--or more--about the events surrounding The Game than the football game itself. It's Harvard meeting Yale. Whether it be in the parking lot, at the keg party or across the chess board, the events surrounding the game make the occasion such a festival. It's an opportunity for people who wouldn't otherwise be somewhere near center-stage to shine, in the band, on the radio dial, wherever. For that, The Game is, indeed, worth caring for, worth going...