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1968 Yale vs. Harvard football game
| Field | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| name | "Harvard Beats Yale, 29–29" | |
| football_season | 1968 | |
| visitor_name_short | Yale | |
| visitor_nickname | Bulldogs | |
| visitor_school | Yale Bulldogs football | |
| home_name_short | Harvard | |
| home_nickname | Crimson | |
| home_school | Harvard Crimson football | |
| visitor_record | 8–0 | |
| home_record | 8–0 | |
| visitor_coach | Carmen Cozza | |
| home_coach | John Yovicsin | |
| visitor_1q | 7 | |
| visitor_2q | 15 | |
| visitor_3q | 0 | |
| visitor_4q | 7 | |
| home_1q | 0 | |
| home_2q | 6 | |
| home_3q | 7 | |
| home_4q | 16 | |
| date | November 23, 1968 | |
| stadium | Harvard Stadium | |
| city | Boston, Massachusetts | |
| attendance | 40,280 | |
| us_network | WHDH Radio-TV network | |
| us_announcers | {{Plainlist |
- Don Gillis
- Ken Coleman}} The 1968 Yale vs. Harvard football game was a college football game between the and the , played on November 23, 1968. The game ended in a 29–29 tie after Harvard made what is considered a miraculous last-moment comeback, scoring 16 points in the final 42 seconds to tie the game against a highly touted Yale squad. The significance of the moral victory for Harvard inspired the next day's The Harvard Crimson student newspaper to print the famous headline "Harvard Beats Yale, 29–29". In 2010, ESPN ranked it No. 9 in its list of the top ten college football ties of all time.
Yale came into the game with a 16-game winning streak and its quarterback, Brian Dowling, had only lost one game when he was in the starting lineup since the sixth grade. Both schools entered the game with perfect 8–0 records. It was the first time both schools met when undefeated and untied since the 1909 season.
The tie left both teams 8–0–1 for the season. The famous headline was later used as the title for Harvard Beats Yale 29–29, a 2008 documentary about the game directed by Kevin Rafferty. Actor Tommy Lee Jones, who played on the offensive line for Harvard in the game, was interviewed for the documentary.
This game stands as the final tie in the Harvard–Yale series, as subsequent rule changes have eliminated ties from college football.
References
References
- DeLassus, David. "Harvard Yearly Results (1965-1969)". [[College Football Data Warehouse]].
- Daugherty, Duffy. (November 26, 1968). "Catch-Up Football Often Leads to a Lopsided Game (Duffy calls 'em)". The Telegraph-Herald.
- [http://www.nd.edu/~tmandell/harvard.html "Harvard Beats Yale"]
- Maisel, Ivan. (June 28, 2010). "Ties sparked controversy, debate". [[ESPN.
- "Heart Stoppers and Hail Marys: Yale vs. Harvard". [[University of Notre Dame]].
- Eldridge, Larry. (November 21, 1968). "The Game Stirs Grid Fans". The Day.
- Dargis, Manohla. (November 18, 2008). "Back in 1968, When a Tie Was No Tie". [[The New York Times]].
- [http://www.kino.com/harvardbeatsyale/ Documentary] {{webarchive. link. (2009-08-07)
- Whiteside, Kelly. (August 25, 2006). "Overtime system still excites coaches". USA Today.
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