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...point of contention is the ticket price: $20 by mail. Although some other tickets have become available at reduced prices, many feel the unprecedented charge is not in keeping with history. "$20 for a seat at the Yale-Harvard football game? A hard wooden seat with the paint peeling off? At the mercy of the elements and the drunks sitting behind you at the Yale Bowl?" wrote Yale grad David Holahan recently in The New York Times in an article explaining why he would be listening to the radio November...
What this indicates as much as anything is how one-sided the so-called rivalry really is. Pierson's volume on merely 50 years of Yale history lists in its index almost 70 references to Harvard, and more than 40 under the category Yale-Harvard comparisons. Morison's 300-year overview makes a scant 15 mentions of Yale. It is quite easy, in discussing Harvard, to ignore Yale...
Under this plan for university-wide competition. The Game would cease to be the focal point of Yale-Harvard weekend. Instead, a contest between the presidents of the universities would become the center of attention. To make the presidential joust as fair as possible, each top official would be allowed to select the event of his choice. A. Bartlett Giamatti of Yale would most likely choose a debate on the ethical responsibilities of the university in society. Derek Bok of Harvard would probably choose to take on Giamatti in a one-on-one basketball game...
Concerned more with Tufts' Saturday game against Bates than with this year's Yale-Harvard game. Gatto says that "although Yale is superior. Joe can pull things out of a hat and I'm looking for a surprise...
Fish, the only living member of the Walter Camp All-Time All-American football team and eight-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives, reminisced about a vicious Yale-Harvard basketball game in 1908 before awarding the first Hamilton Fish Most Improved Player Award to Donald Fleming, a freshman who averaged almost 12 points per outing...