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...likes to remember that fateful Rutgers game in 1966, but the weather on Saturday, October 19, 1968 evoked all sorts of memories. At Princeton in 1967, Yale fans loudly beseeched: "Stop the rain, Brian." Curiously enough, the sun emerged again in the second half...
...Brian Thinks...
Before he began his sophomore football season, Brian was already being compared to Frank Merriwell, Yale's mythical super-athlete. Dowling shunned the role. "I had never heard of Merriwell until I got here and I still haven't read any of the books about him," Brian said. "But, from what I understand, Frank Merriwell was quite...
...close. It must be kept firmly in mind, at least for the glory of it, that Yale is one of the greatest teams in the nation, in history, in the universe, in the mind of God, and that Harvard, albeit nice and good and undefeated, is no match for Brian Dowling, that wonderful hero, and the rest of the Yale football team...
...Yale students look and act blase. Their football team has been winning so easily, for so long, that no one questions the inevitable: Brian Dowling cannot be beaten. In the immortal words of one undergraduate, "You never know what's going to happen--but you know that you're not going to lose...