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 History: Articles, Anecdotes & References    


THE ESSENTIALS

    1.  Harvard-Yale Game Football Scores (1876-2001)
    2.  The First Harvard-Yale Football Game: 1875
    3.  Era of National Titles
    4.  The Game of all Games: 1968
    5.  The 100th Game
    6.  Why the Harvard-Yale Football Game is called "The Game" (Harvard web site)
    7Harvard Football Timeline
    8Harvard Football Timeline2 (Harvard Web Site)
    9.  Yale Football Timeline (Yale web site)

THE LEGENDS AND MYTHS
    1The Origins of American Football to 1889 (Excellent Article but Lengthy)
    2The Father of Modern Football: Yale's Walter Camp (Excellent Article but Lengthy)
    3Football's First Trading Card: Yale's 1888 Henry Beecher (From Football Cards section)
   
4Football's First Football Collection: The 1894 Mayo Set (From Football Cards section)
   
5The Big Three of Early College Football (Harvard, Yale, Princeton)
    6 Harvard's Only Bowl Game (the 1920 Rose Bowl)
    7Anecdote: Yale's Pudge Heffelfinger: One Tough Player
    8Harvard's Infamous Flying Wedge
    7.  Did Harvard Save Modern Football in 1873?
    9The Ivy League (Ivy League time line--Ivy League web site)
  10.  MIT and It's Ties to the Game
  11Yale and its Heisman Men: Larry Kelley and Clinton Frank
  12.  Brown of Harvard (1925 silent film, 1909 play)
  13.  The Stadiums of The Game
  14.  A Harvard-Army Rivalry?  (From Gallery section)
  15.  The Debate of the "First" Football Game

OTHER ARTICLES, SITES AND OTHER LINKS
    1. Harvard and Columbia and a Reconsideration of the 1905-06 Football Crisis (Adobe Acrobat file)
    2. The “Big Three” and the Harvard-Princeton Football Break, 1926-1934 (Adobe Acrobat file)
    3. Let's Play Odd Ball: Intrigue and Lore Behind The Game (from FM Crimson web site)  

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