I must admit that I grew up thinking that Cornell-Penn on thanksgiving weekend was The game. Then I learned about Purdue- Norte Dame. And Michigan-Michigan State is right up there. So Harvard-Yale didn’t immediately come to mind. Sorry!
stan Sent from my iPad > On Dec 22, 2017, at 2:56 PM, Rick Womer <[email protected]> wrote: > > PJ, I enjoyed these. During my high school years I was an usher at the Yale > Bowl, on the visitors’ side, 40th yard line or so. The crowd was more hostile > than on the Yale side, but the tips were better, especially in wet weather > (for which I was prepared with a towel to wipe the seats). Those were the > days of Brian Dowling as QB and Calvin Hill as FB. > > I’m no longer a football fan, and even though I’m on the Penn faculty I feel > no particular loyalty. Still, I enjoyed the pics! > > Rick > > >> On Dec 22, 2017, at 5:12 AM, P. J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> If you have to ask what game, well there's just no hope for you... >> >> OK, so it's the Yale Harvard football classic, the one that was killing and >> maiming so many of America's best and brightest around of the turn of the >> 20th Century, that President Theodore Roosevelt felt obliged to mediate, >> and thus the modern sport of Football, (American, and it's Younger Canadian >> brother), was born. >> >> So no one cares and the Ivy league hasn't been the cutting edge of Football >> since sometime in the 1930's, but Yale and Harvard still take it seriously. >> >> For the rest of us it's a good excuse for a cookout in miserable cold fall >> weather, often rainy or like this year threatening to rain anyway. >> >> The last few years have been disappointing for Yale fans but this year, >> Yale handed the Harvard team their heads after bouncing them down the field >> a bit. >> >> I took almost 200 images but rather than bore everyone I've put together a >> representative sample of what happened with great regularity and a couple of >> shots of tailgaters having way too much fun, for probably the wrong reasons. >> >> https://pdml.updog.co/thegame2017/GESO%20--%20thegame.html >> >> Equipment: Pentax K-5II w/Kalamare 500mm MC Mirror f8.0 or SMC Pentax F >> 70-210mm f4.0~5.6 >> >> As usual comments are welcome but may be totally ignored. >> >> -- >> America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. >> America was founded so we could all be anything we damn well please. >> - P.J. O'Rourke >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
