THE GAME - HARVARD @ YALE 2009The first meeting between the teams occurred on November 13, 1875, at Hamilton Field in New Haven. Harvard won 4-0 by scoring four touchdowns and four field goals (at the time, a touchdown merely gave the scoring team the opportunity to gain one point by converting the field goal). This was the first intercollegiate football match between two U.S. teams. (Harvard had played McGill University of Montreal the previous year, and acquired the rules of the game from that team; previous intercollegiate matches were played under the rules of soccer, or European football.)
The rules that governed the early years of THE GAME were a modified version of the rules of rugby and made the game particularly brutal. In the second half of The Game of 1892, Harvard introduced the flying wedge formation, devised by chess master Lorin F. Deland, which so devastated Yale players that it was outlawed the following season (nevertheless, Yale won 6-0). After The Game of 1894, about which newspapers reported seven players carried off the field "in dying condition," the two schools broke off all official contact including athletic competition for two years. Since resuming in 1897, THE GAME has been played annually except during the First and Second World Wars.
THE GAME - Harvard @ Yale 2009 will be played this Saturday, November 21st at the Yale Bowl in New Haven, CT. Go Ancient Eight!
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