The University of Chicago with A Is Alonzo Stagg was a national powerhouse from about 1897 to 1925. Michigan gam was considered a. Consensus national champion s coupe of times in the early 1900s. Don’t know if they played Ivy League teams.
Paul > On Dec 22, 2017, at 7:51 PM, Daniel J. Matyola <danmaty...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Harvard-Yale was "The Game" decades before those other teams played top > level football. The Ivy leagues dominated college football from 1869 > through 1922. > > Dan Matyola > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola > > On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 5:41 PM, Stan Halpin <s...@stans-photography.info> > wrote: > >> I must admit that I grew up thinking that Cornell-Penn on thanksgiving >> weekend was The game. Then I learned about Purdue- Norte Dame. And >> Michigan-Michigan State is right up there. So Harvard-Yale didn’t >> immediately come to mind. Sorry! >> >> stan >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >>> On Dec 22, 2017, at 2:56 PM, Rick Womer <rickpic...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> PJ, I enjoyed these. During my high school years I was an usher at the >> Yale Bowl, on the visitors’ side, 40th yard line or so. The crowd was more >> hostile than on the Yale side, but the tips were better, especially in wet >> weather (for which I was prepared with a towel to wipe the seats). Those >> were the days of Brian Dowling as QB and Calvin Hill as FB. >>> >>> I’m no longer a football fan, and even though I’m on the Penn faculty I >> feel no particular loyalty. Still, I enjoyed the pics! >>> >>> Rick >>> >>> >>>> On Dec 22, 2017, at 5:12 AM, P. J. Alling <webstertwenty...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>>> >>>> If you have to ask what game, well there's just no hope for you... >>>> >>>> OK, so it's the Yale Harvard football classic, the one that was killing >> and maiming so many of America's best and brightest around of the turn of >> the 20th Century, that President Theodore Roosevelt felt obliged to >> mediate, and thus the modern sport of Football, (American, and it's Younger >> Canadian brother), was born. >>>> >>>> So no one cares and the Ivy league hasn't been the cutting edge of >> Football since sometime in the 1930's, but Yale and Harvard still take it >> seriously. >>>> >>>> For the rest of us it's a good excuse for a cookout in miserable cold >> fall weather, often rainy or like this year threatening to rain anyway. >>>> >>>> The last few years have been disappointing for Yale fans but this >> year, Yale handed the Harvard team their heads after bouncing them down >> the field a bit. >>>> >>>> I took almost 200 images but rather than bore everyone I've put >> together a representative sample of what happened with great regularity and >> a couple of shots of tailgaters having way too much fun, for probably the >> wrong reasons. >>>> >>>> https://pdml.updog.co/thegame2017/GESO%20--%20thegame.html >>>> >>>> Equipment: Pentax K-5II w/Kalamare 500mm MC Mirror f8.0 or SMC Pentax F >> 70-210mm f4.0~5.6 >>>> >>>> As usual comments are welcome but may be totally ignored. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. >>>> America was founded so we could all be anything we damn well please. >>>> - P.J. O'Rourke >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>> PDML@pdml.net >>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> PDML@pdml.net >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
