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| Yale bulldog: "Wait till next year." |
Today's game is worth noting:
- It is the eighth straight win for Harvard.
- This is the first time that either team has won eight consecutive Ivy League games since the 1880s.
- It was the first time that ESPN College GameDay came to televise the oldest game in U.S. college football, in the oldest stadium in the USA, Harvard Stadium (1903).
- Late in the third quarter Harvard had a 24-7 lead, but blew it as Yale proceeded to score three times in the beginning of the fourth quarter.
- Yale tied up the score 24-24 with but 4 minutes left to play.
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| The year Harvard Stadium opened for business, 1903. |
- Harvard then crushed Yale's rising hopes with two scores in these last 4 minutes.
- The two final winning scores were engineered by the backup Harvard quarterback, Conner Hempel, who had been sidelined for the previous three games by a shoulder injury.
- Harvard ended the season with a 10-0 record, and 7-0 in the Ivy League.
- It is Harvard's 17th undefeated season in its history of playing football, and the third in the 21 years that Tim Murphy has been coach.
Meanwhile, Yalies can put the present behind them by re-reading old copies of The New York Times in happier days. What better year for Yale to pick out of the archives than 1884, when Yale won 52-0 before a huge crowd of more than 2,000 fans and the Times the next day began its coverage of The Game as follows:
THE HARVARDS BADLY BEATEN.
THE YALE FOOTBALL TEAM WHIP THEM BY A SCORE OF 52 TO 0.
NEW-HAVENS, Nov. 22 [1884].—Eleven Yale men and 11 Harvard men rolled each other over in the soft mud at the new athletic grounds this afternoon and called it football. The crimson and blue jerseys and stockings were twirled around to the pleasure of some 2,400 spectators as the two teams shoved the oblong, leather, inflated bag up and down the field…
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