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...enable me to attend two versions of “The Game” in less than 24 hours—provided that my partner, Courtney Skinner ’10, and I were willing to drive through the night to Cambridge in time for kickoff of the Harvard-Yale game at noon the next day.Some called driving a total of 12 hours for a two-and-a-half hour hockey game dedication. Though covering away games is very important, no one would have faulted forsaking the trip in favor of seeing my last “Game?...
...Harvard football. The Crimson’s current run of seven-win seasons—which at eight is the longest since 1911, and the longest in Ivy League history—has come at the expense of virtually every other Ivy League school, good coaches or not. Yale joins Dartmouth, Columbia, Brown, and Cornell among the list of Ivy schools that has lost at least seven of the last eight to Harvard, and Lafayette could be added to the list as a non-league foe. Princeton has lost six of the last eight, while even Penn, long the powerhouse...
...what does Yale expect to gain by replacing Siedlecki? The question looms larger when you consider that Siedlecki took over a program in terrible shape in 1997. That season, his first year in New Haven, the Bulldogs went 1-9, undermanned and unprepared after the last unsuccessful years of Carm Cozza, the closest thing Yale has to Bear Bryant. Two years later, Siedlecki led the Bulldogs to a win over Harvard that locked up an Ivy title and a 9-1 season. In other words, Siedlecki restored the luster to a program that was sorely lacking, taking it about...
...with Siedlecki gone, where does Yale turn? It's not as easy as you might think to find a quality coach in the Ivies, given the recruiting restrictions, relatively low profile, and comparatively low coaching salaries...
...sense of community that can result from bringing students together around issues of social justice should not be mutually exclusive from the community that develops around campus parties or Harvard-Yale. As human beings, we have a responsibility to think about people beyond our immediate community, and we have a special opportunity as Harvard students not only to encourage our peers to give back but to shape the way they view their role in the world. Given that historically Harvard has churned out future leaders in every field, it is especially valuable for us to encourage our peers to think...