With absolutely no apologies to michigan and ohio, this is The Game...Yale v. Harvard. This is where it all began. Like its antecedent Rugby, football was meant to be a brutish game played by Gentlemen. J. William White was an early advocate of physical, mental and emotional benefits of football. In a piece for the North American Review in January of 1894, he stressed the fact that it was not like English football. He dismissed that as a game played by "minors, laborers, and all kinds of people."*
(A Gentleman's game...no wonder this northern game came to be dominated by The South.)
With that in mind, we turn our attention to the world's oldest bowl stadium...as Yale welcome's harvard for the 128th installment of The Game. Harvard's already wrapped up the IVY League championship this year...just gonna make it that much sweeter.**
e.f.bartlam '04, M.A.
Sorry about yer luck crimson...fumble into the endzone. Touchback...Yale ball.
They couldn't capitalize...except for field position. Of course, field position matters.
Finally a touchdown for Witt...TOUCHDOWN.
Yale 7 - crimson 0
I look forward to this game every year but it is like watching Club Football...as it should be I guess.
Yale 7 - a color 7. That was a quick 73 yards...Boo Hiss Boo
Great play capped off by a fumble...geez.
Yale 7 - harvard 14
Blocked field goal...this is some bad football.
Bowed up on Em and held Em to a field goal.
Yale 7 - Harvard 17
Nothing to see here...move along.
*This is what we've been dealing with since 1865.
**The Gators are playing 1-AA Furman today...we aren't following that one.
The Bush's Skull and Bones boys versus Roosevelt's Phi Beta Kappa boys - it's no secret that, after the distant descendants of Geronimo decided to sue for his skull's return, it went mysteriously missing and, since then, the Yale boys' mojo has been in evident decline; their ability to perform their necromancy pre-match rituals, scuppered and their confidence on the field, kicked in to touch. It was all but inevitable - a slam-dunk for the betting man.
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ReplyDeleteAfter this weekend's games the SEC holds the #1 (LSU),#2(Alabama), and #3(Arkansas) slots in the BCS standings. I'm not sure any conference has ever done that...and certainly not this late in the season.
LSU and Arkansas play this weekend in Baton Rouge.
Vanderbilt lost again this weekend....heartbreaker to Tennessee in overtime but, a win this weekend over Wake Forrest will send them to a bowl game for only the fifth time in their history.
Nat you need to find some chicken feet and purple candles before this weekend.