Harvard-Yale was "The Game" decades before those other teams played top level football. The Ivy leagues dominated college football from 1869 through 1922.
Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 5:41 PM, Stan Halpin <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. -- 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.
