The Game
Haven't Bought Your Ticket For Harvard-Yale?
For those of you who have not yet braved the trek across the Charles River for a Harvard-Yale ticket, don't fret. The Athletics Box Office is currently sold out of game-day tickets, but will get a new shipment tomorrow at 11 a.m. Student tickets are 15 dollars and can be picked up at the Box Office in the Murr Center until 5 p.m. tomorrow. Tickets are also available online here.
THE HARVARD CRIMSON: We're Coming Just as a Favor
Harvard’s season is basically already over. The champagne has been enjoyed, the Powerade spilled, the riots subdued. Really, the Crimson is only playing tomorrow as a favor to Yale.
YALE DAILY NEWS: Cantabs Can’t Handle Yalies
Already Ivy League Champions, nationally ranked (No. 14) and undefeated in league play, it would be foolish to argue that the stats point any other way. Tops in the league in scoring offense, total offense and total defense, the Cantabs are having an Ivy League season for the ages.
Yale Strikes First in 2000s
Harvard football has beaten Yale in nine of the last 10 matchups, and current Crimson students have only ever witnessed Harvard triumph over its Bulldog rivals. But for one moment on Nov. 20, 2004, Harvard certainly did suck.
MIT Engineers Shenanigans
What do primer cord, weather balloons, and model rockets have to do with the Harvard-Yale game? All have been utilized in MIT pranks on the day of The Game.
JFK Hoax Dupes Elis
But another shenanigan of 1961 also lives on, at least in Harvard-Yale lore. The front-page story of a prank issue proclaimed that President John F. Kennedy ’40 had made the last-minute decision to attend The Game.
Crimson Eyes Ivy Perfection
The the season's outcome is set, that’s not how the players—nor the 50,000 fans in attendance—will see tomorrow’s contest at the Yale Bowl, the 128th showdown in one of the most hallowed rivalries in college sports.
Tale of Two Quarterbacks
It would be hard to imagine a worse start to the season for Harvard quarterback Collier Winters. In the final minutes of a season-opening loss to Holy Cross, the fifth-year senior dove into the end zone and pulled his hamstring.
A Cornerstone Emerges
The Crimson secondary contains senior cornerback Matthew Hanson, who for the past four years has been shutting down opposing number one receivers on a weekly basis.
O-Line Down But Never Out
With several starters and other veteran players returning from last year’s squad, Harvard’s front line looked promising. But season-ending injuries and other serious setbacks raised concerns about this year’s offensive line.
Secretary of Defense
Since he arrived in Cambridge as a multi-talented recruit four years ago, Harvard middle linebacker Alex Gedeon has done everything his coaches and teammates have asked of him.
