The games held at Harvard Stadium (even years) are generally always sold out, with stadium capacity at 30,898. In odd years, The Game is played at the Yale Bowl, which has a significantly larger capacity of 64,269. The usual crowd is over 50,000, but tickets are always available. This season, with both teams playing well and possibly undefeated in league play coming into The Game, there's the possibility of a sell-out at the Yale Bowl.
Harvard, by the score of 18-14.
Harvard and Yale hold the oldest football rivalry. "The Game" was first played in 1875.
Harvard - Yale played their first college football game on Nov. 13, 1875 - 138 years ago
Yale and Princeton
Although Ivy League schools had been playing various types of kicking games since the 1820s, the first recognized intercollegiate football game was between Rutgers and Princeton in 1869 -- although their game would have resembled soccer more than the game we know today.
Harvard, by the score of 18-14.
Harvard and Yale hold the oldest football rivalry. "The Game" was first played in 1875.
The game of softball was first seen at a football game between Harvard and Yale. It was on Thanksgiving Day in 1887.
The Flying Wedge was introduced in 1892 during the Harvard-Yale football game. It was reportedly invented by a chess grandmaster and Harvard football fanatic named Lorin Deland. Click on the 'Harvard's Flying Wedge' link on this page to read about that 1892 game.
Harvard's main rival would be Yale. The two school compete not only in the sports arena but also when it comes to getting the best students to come to their school. When Harvard plays Yale in football it is simply referred to as "The Game." The two schools wait all year for this game and when it arrives the rivalry is very intense.
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The Way It Was - 1974 The Game Unbeaten Harvard vs- Unbeaten Yale was released on: USA: 27 March 1977
Softball developed as a younger version of baseball. Softball was started by elements of other sports of which were boating, boxing and football. A boating club, a boxing glove and a football game were key parts in the very first game of softball. Softball was first introduced on Thanksgiving Day in 1887 at a Harvard-Yale football game. A man from Yale playfully threw a boxing glove at the Harvard grads after the game was done and bets were paid. A fan from Harvard hit the glove away with a broom handle. A game of indoor baseball commenced as a result. George Hancock, part of the Harvard and Yale Alumni who gathered at the Farragut Boat Club in Chicago that day to hear the score of the annual football game, made a large, soft ball by taking a boxing glove and tying it. The ball was fielded barehanded since it was soft and didn't require gloves like those used in baseball.
Harvard - Yale played their first college football game on Nov. 13, 1875 - 138 years ago
Harvard-Pennsylvania Football Game - 1903 was released on: USA: November 1903
Someone invented baseball first long ago and they created softball after baseball because long ago baseball was only for boys Softball was invented inside the Farragut Boat Club on a blustery, winter day in November, 1887, in Chicago, IL. A bunch of Yale and Harvard alumni anxiously awaited the results of the Harvard-Yale football game, and when the news came that Yale had defeated Harvard, 17-8, one Yale supporter, overcome with enthusiasm, picked up an old boxing glove and threw it at a nearby Harvard alumni, who promptly tried to hit it back with a stick. This gave George Hancock, a reporter for the Chicago Board of Trade, an idea. He suggested a game of indoor baseball. Naturally, Hancock's friends thought he was talking about playing a game outdoors, not indoors
The first softball game was played between Yale and Harvard alumni. On September 16, 1887, in Chicago, Illinois, George Hancock created the game. The Yale and Harvard alumni had gathered at the Farragut Boat Club. They were there to hear the score of the annual football game. A Yale alumnus threw a boxing glove at a Harvard alumnus, who hit the glove with a stick. George Hancock had the boxing glove tied in a ball, and a broomstick handle was used as a bat. The final score of the game was 44-40, but the winner is unknown. A week later, Hancock developed an undersized bat and a ball with a circumference of 16 inches to a baseball's 9 inches. The Farragut Boat Club came out with a set of rules for the game, which came to be known as 'Indoor-Outdoor'.