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Harvard Beats Yale, Takes Ivy Championship

by Amanda Gordon
Sat, 17 Nov 2007 at 3:45 PM

updated Sat, 17 Nov 2007 at 3:47 PM

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New Haven, Conn. -- In a highly anticipated contest between two undefeated teams, Harvard's football team trounced Yale's 37 to 6 at the Yale Bowl this afternoon. More than 57,000 people attended the event known as "The Game," including New York notables such as New York's deputy mayor, Daniel Doctoroff, NBC chief Jeff Zucker, who brought his son Andrew, and Chelsea Piers mastermind Roland Betts, who is the senior fellow of Yale's corporation. "This is the kind of day you wish you didn't get out of bed," the president of Yale, Richard Levin, said at half time when Harvard was ahead 27-0. "I'm in no mood to talk," the football captain of the Yale team in 1982, Frederick Leone, said from the stands. Not even the cheerleaders, not even the Yale Precision Marching Band's half-time show could raise the spirits on the Yale side of the stadium, which was recently restored with major support from the Class of 1954. Members of the class were honored on the field during halftime. Tailgates in Lot D, known as the "Park Avenue" of the tailgating venues, featured steaks off the grill, deviled eggs, and champagne, while the ones for students and graduates of the 1990s featured potato chips, carrot sticks, and peanut butter cookies. The festivities continue tonight with the Harvard Yale Concert at Woolsey Hall at which singing groups from the schools will perform.

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