At the Yale-Harvard football game on Nov. 22, the Yale Precision Marching Band may haven taken its “respectfully irreverent” motto too far — at least according to Director of Yale Bands Thomas Duffy.
Before freezing through a disappointing 125th Harvard-Yale football game, hundreds of Elis endured an equally cold reception at Harvard’s scaled-down tailgate.
The director of Yale Bands, Thomas Duffy, suspended the Yale Precision Marching Band on Monday over a prop used during the Yale-Harvard Game halftime show that he described as "completely inappropriate and highly offensive."
Despite stricter regulations announced prior to Saturday’s tailgate, the number of alcohol-related hospitalizations at this weekend’s Harvard-Yale festivities increased dramatically from when The Game was last held in Boston.
BOSTON — And you thought last year was ugly.
For the second consecutive year, the Eli offense simply did not show up in The Game and rival Harvard walked off the field crowned Ivy League champions. After last season’s 37-6 drubbing of the Bulldogs in New Haven, the Cantabs yet again looked dominant and shut out Yale, 10-0.
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BOSTON — Before freezing through a disappointing 125th Harvard-Yale football game, hundreds of Elis endured an equally cold reception at the scaled-down tailgate.
BOSTON — Harvard steamrolled the Elis on Saturday, holding the Yale offense scoreless en route to a 10-0 victory and at least a share of the Ivy League title.
In the 125th edition of The Game, the Bulldogs could not muster any offense whatsoever. On a freezing afternoon at Harvard Stadium, quarterback Brook Hart ’11 completed only four passes, and Yale was...
With student tickets to this year’s Game as scarce as Harvard parties on a Saturday night, it seems that Harvard Stadium will be a packed house during the 125th playing of the historic matchup. But outside the grandstands, at the pre-game tailgate, the party may be tamer than it has been in years past.
The News asks professors and administrators for their best guess about how the Elis will fare on Saturday.
For Elis and Cantabs alike, this weekend will be a defining moment in the battle for glory. But quarterbacks and wide receivers will not be the only ones defending their school’s honor. Before The Game there must come The Match, where pawns, rooks and rousing calls of “checkmate” will determine the reigning champion of the Ivy League. “For me, it’s a big deal,” said...
With Harvard University imposing stricter tailgating regulations for Saturday’s Game, Friday night festivities will test the extent of the Crimson’s party scene.
After Yale’s embarrassing 37-6 loss last year at The Game, which handed Harvard the Ivy League title, many Yalies questioned whether or not coach Jack Siedlecki was the right man to lead the Bulldog pack.
