<p>coming from a yale EA applicant, i find this a little funnier, but then again, im gonna send harvard app regular, so i wont exactly laugh out loud or anything. apparently someone tricked those harvard kids into holding those signs up at The Game. But then again, though that may have been embarassing, it was yale who gave up a 100 yd TD interception and lost 35-3…much luck to everyone on the harvard and yale EA rosters!</p>
<p>It's a joke. I was at the game, and didn't see any evidence of that stuff. In addition, Harvard students are so independent that they barely did the wave. There's no way they would have held high some crimson and white placards. Sheesh. Some people will believe anything that creative people put together with Photoshop.</p>
<p>Hmm... I'm not sure I agree with you NSM. I opened the picture up in Photoshop and zoomed in, and that is one incredible photoshop job if it is one. All of the cards look different, and you can see the people's fingers on the edges.</p>
<p>"[The prank] was organized by the senior class in Pierson. Dressed in crimson and calling themselves the "Crimson Pep Squad," they went through the Harvard alumni section passing out red and white papers that they said would, when raised, spell out "Go Harvard". In fact, they spelled out "We Suck." And since the full effect was only visible from across the stadium, they were induced to spell it twice before anybody on their side got wind of it."</p>
<p>Maybe you just couldn't see it from where you were sitting?</p>
<p>Well, just<em>forget</em>me, Northstarmom is an alumna, so I would assume that's the section in which she would have been sitting. If not, I think it's unlikely that something that large could have been unseeable.</p>
<p>No one else has mentioned it either, and several people on this board alone were at the game.</p>
<p>I was sitting on the far right of the stands, almost in front of the goal posts, so I was outside of the area allegedly covered by the prank. However, I doubt that I could have missed it. </p>
<p>I also was with 2 H alums so sharp eyed that they managed to spot 3 bare chested blue paint-covered Yale fans sitting in the Yale section way on the other side of the stadium. Gosh those guys looked stupid!</p>
<p>If the prank occurred, I'd also think that the Crimson would have mentioned it somewhere, and the Yale Daily would have carried a picture.</p>
<p>I'm sure you're right... Do you think this could have happened at a previous Harvard-Yale game? It sort of sounds familiar, maybe a prank MIT did?</p>
<p>I just noticed the other picture on that site: the Yale student running with the Harvard flag.</p>
<p>That part was true. I did see someone from Yale running up the Yale stands with, I think, the Harvard flag. That was just before the game began. </p>
<p>I thought it was funny. I put it in the same category as the Harvard band's 2003 show at the Big Game. The band marched out and beat a model of the Yale bulldog. That was their contribution to the halftime show.</p>
<p>If Yale really did manage to get Harvard fans to spell out "Harvard Sucks," the Yale fans should have gotten the Yale Daily to print a picture of it. That might have provoked some smiles out of the depressed Yalies.</p>
<p>The stealing of the flag part is true. My daughter was at the game and reported seeing it. She also said that later in the game the Yale folks started taunting with "Where's your Flag?! Where's your flag?!" And since Harvard was well ahead in the game by then, the answering chant from the Harvard fans was "SCORE-BOARD!, SCORE-BOARD!"</p>
<p>no, im pretty sure its not faked. just forget me is right, yale has had the week off, so there has been no daily news. and yes, i heard it was organized by pierson from ppl i know who go there. and yeah, it seems to be too good to be photoshop. whenever yale classes resume, people will hear about it.</p>