<p>"Weekend Edition - Saturday, December 9, 2000 · Swarthmore College announced it will discontinue football program. Scott speaks with Greg Kannerstein, director of athletics at Haverford College, Swarthmore's rival."</p>
<p>Sounds very NPR-ish. Quaker rivalry and all....it seems that Swat beat the heck out of Haverford before football was eliminated. And it said nothing about the other issues - just that the college was "trying to concentrate on other sports".</p>
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<p>Not in football. Haverford dumped its football program 30 years ago.</p>
<p>It does crack me up that the Swarthmore students voted many years ago to use the name "Garnet Tide" for their athletic teams, a vote intended to be an ironic play on the then dominant football program in the country, Bear Bryant's "Crimson Tide".</p>
<p>Yes, you are right!! It ways with the elimination of football, some of those football slots for admissions will be allocated to the other sports and "Swarthmore being such a good team" (Wow, I did not know that!!), then they present a greater challenge to Haverford.</p>