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Article: Documentary revisits '68 Ivy League football game as legendary as its era?
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- New Haven Register
- Article date:
- November 21, 2008
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The 1968 Yale-Harvard football game has become a cultural folk
legend. It's like Woodstock; many, many people from that era claim,
"I was there." My brother, Ben, really was there for that amazing
contest -- just not for the final five minutes.
Anybody who knows Ivy League history can tell you that when my
brother ran out of Harvard Stadium on that fabled afternoon to help
the Harvard Crimson sell its "Extra" edition about the game, Yale
was comfortably ahead, 29-13.
But in the incredible last 42 seconds, when everything went right
for Harvard and everything went horribly, unbelievably wrong for
Yale, the hometown squad managed to score two touchdowns and two 2-
point conversions.
And so the ...