And a remembrance of it. “Gentlemen, you are now going out to play football against Harvard. Never again in your whole life will you do anything so important.” — T.A.D. Jones, Yale football coach, 1916 When the Crimson take to the gridiron come Saturday afternoon, they will do so with a pair of opportunities in […]
Harvard-Cornell and its comparisons. On Saturday afternoon, as I sat in the cool concrete stands of Harvard Stadium, my father texted me a photograph and a message. At the photo’s center was the University of Texas Longhorn Band, the “Showband of the Southwest” incarnate, marching across the green turf of the Cotton Bowl. They marched […]
Harvard’s Shooting Team went to nationals. The Harvard shooting team arrived at the National Shooting Complex several days late. In the days before we arrived, shotgunners from across the country had descended upon the city of San Antonio and every La Quinta within fifteen miles of the complex. They came from all over – from […]
Big Air at Fenway. For three weeks, the ski tower had grown steadily upward from the fallow baseball field. The thing had been months in the making, had taken nearly a million pounds of wood, cement, and steel, and now, in its full incarnation, it soared above the upper decks of Fenway Park. The tower […]
Each winter, the ice hockey teams of Harvard, Boston College, Boston University, and Northeastern face off in the Beanpot Tournament. This year, the Indy takes to the ice. At the Park Street T-stop, I switched from the Red Line to the Green Line, bound for North Station and the TD Garden above it. The Green […]
Harvard and Yale’s museums battled it out. By the time we got to New Haven, we were more than ready to get off the bus. It was one of those charter numbers, fifty-six seats or so, and there was a bathroom in the back of the bus that slowly but steadily emitted the noxious fumes […]
The Indy sits in on a smoker’s rights meeting. A couple of weeks ago I found myself in Stephen Helfer’s apartment at a meeting of the Cambridge Citizens for Smokers’ Rights. Helfer is the Citizens’ leader, and you’ve probably seen him if you’ve walked through Harvard Square enough times. He’s got an off-white mustache and […]
Field Notes from Harvard-Brown By five o’clock, the Harvard-faithful surged down JFK Street. They came in loosely packed shuttles from the Quad and in tight-knit droves from the river houses, and at the confluence of JFK and Mt. Auburn the channels merged and streamed across the river. When they crested Anderson Bridge, some people wanted […]