Word: yale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most excitement she's had as a freshman is dealing with the wave of robberies that swept her dorm earlier this fall. Even though she hasn't been to a football game yet this season, she's looking forward to going down to New Haven for her first Harvard-Yale Game. "It's something you can't miss--it's Harvard-Yale," she says...
...first football game between Harvard and Yale took place when Ulysses S. Grant was president of the United States, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was a five-year old pre-schooler and the Science Center probably referred to a collection of Bunsen burners somewhere in the basement of Sever Hall. The 1875 competition--which was in reality more a rugby match than anything else--was actually not the beginning of the Harvard-Yale rivalry. That had begun more than two decades earlier with crew. No helmets or equipment were worn--the teams wore hats, knickers and britches for uniforms. The game...
...representatives from Yale met with individuals from Princeton, Rutgers and Columbia to create official rules for American football; what emerged was a game more resembling traditional European football--soccer--than anything else. Harvard pursued its own idea of the sport, closer to rugby and an early version of today's American football. In any case, in 1875, The Game was played without formally established rules, complicating the final tally: While the official record shows Harvard winning by a margin of four touchdowns and four goals to nothing for Yale, The Crimson credited the margin to be five goals to nothing...
...today, that is, an event more than a football game. It was played in New Haven, and about 150 Harvard men accompanied the Harvard team to Connecticut in carriages. Everyone was put up at a lodging called the New Haven House, and on Saturday morning, rather than tailgate, the Yale men drove their Cambridge counterparts around New Haven, showing off objects of interest in town. The game started at 2:30 p.m. (this year's game starts at 12:30) and was played at a place known as Hamilton Park. The price of admission was 50 cents. On a sour...
...disinterested senior is Alistair Isaac, who was originally a member of the Class of 1999 before he took a year off. He's not much of a sports fan but has attended the previous three Harvard-Yale games. For a long time, The Game commemorated his first meeting with his former girlfriend, as they had first dated during Harvard-Yale weekend years ago. But things have changed...