<p>tigers' winning fourth-quarter touchdown drive kept alive by a personal foul on harvard's daniel tanner for taunting - perhaps coach murphy will toss him from the team. former suspendee liam o'hagan intercepted twice in return to action, and byerly man-crush clifton dawson (not suspended) held to just 64 yards on 21 carries.</p>
<p>Hopefully I'll be able to see that game in a couple of years--as a student!</p>
<p>yay! go tigers! now we just gotta focus on Yale....</p>
<p>I saw a crimson-clad gentleman with carpal tunnel syndrome weeping on Stan Katz's shoulder in the Harvard stands as the final gun sounded. He was clutching a tattered copy of that article about Harvard, the brand, in which Katz is featured so prominently. Could this have been a Byerly sighting?</p>
<p>Looking forward to the Yale-Princeton game...</p>
<p>where is byerly with links to old stats?</p>
<p>The second best moment was the Princeton band's announcer's introduction........</p>
<pre><code> "Princeton University welcomes its visitors to the number one school in the country......" :)
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<p>^so how did the visit with daughterX go?</p>
<p>one of the greatest parts of the game - at halftime (though i dont really care about rankings, it was kind of funny)</p>
<p>Announcer: Let's welcome our visitors to the number one school in the nation, Princeton!</p>
<p>The Tigers did much better than the pathetic Gophers of my alma mater. Congratulations.</p>
<p>neat story about identical twins adam and andrew berry, co-valedictorians and teammates at their baltimore high school, who squared off against each other in the harvard-princeton game, with andrew covering his wide-receiver brother as defensive back for much of the contest.</p>
<p>Here's a NEW article ... in case you missed it!</p>
<p>avoiding the topic of the game, i see (however understandably).</p>
<p>maybe yale might get a ranking this week. Looks like the YP game will draw more yalies this year, finally.</p>
<p>Lets hope the Harvard-Yale game won't be decided by a questionable call (a pathetically stupid call) by the zebras, but rather by the players themselves.</p>
<p>"At the end of a hard-fought battle between the Harvard football team and Princeton last Saturday, free safety Danny Tanner broke up a pass, making it fourth-and-four for the Tigers. With the Crimson up 28-24, a stop would have sealed the deal.</p>
<p>After the incompletion, Tanner turned to his teammates and celebrated by jumping into the air while hitting his chest with his hand. Its a motion every football player from the little leagues to the NFL has made in his career without restriction.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, a late flag was thrown, unsportsmanlike conduct was called, and Princetons drive continued, leading to a Tiger score and a 31-28 victory.</p>
<p>As Harvard head coach Tim Murphy said after the game, that call is never made in Ivy League football. The purpose it served remains up in the air..."</p>
<p>See also the NYTimes story: "Princeton remains in first place with help of a late penalty"</p>
<p>blaming it on the officiating? how very sportsmanlike of you. you neglect to mention, however, that the penalty in question occured on a third-and-four play, so even without the flag, princeton would have had another chance, and a good one, to keep its drive alive (it moved the ball on harvard all day, with two different quarterbacks, to the tune of 31 points). you also neglect to mention that princeton linebacker luke steckel was flagged for the same thing in the second quarter after tackling dawson near the goal line. 31-28.</p>
<p>Don't give me the Princeton party line on the penalties being "the same thing". They weren't at all similar, and the circumstances were utterly different. How very unsportsmanlike of you to crow about "winning" in such an underhanded manner. </p>
<p>I hadn't intended to mention the game at all, but your pathetic chirping about a game that wasn't "won" by the Princeton team, but was determined by an outrageous call by the officials betrays your own lack of sportsmanship.</p>
<p>The "victory" will be forever tainted by that late "home town call" by the officials, egged on by the Princeton coach. But I guess the Tigers will take it any way they can get it, right, "scottie"?</p>
<p>Even the NY Times implied strongly that Harvard was robbed, and that the zebras handed victory to the home town team on a silver platter.</p>
<p>give me a break. it was a judgment call, with no clear right or wrong answer, and it didn't go your way. it didn't "determine" the game, as i demonstrated. remember, in addition to scoring more points, gaining more yards, winning the turnover battle (including three interceptions), and holding harvard's star back more than a hundred yards below his average, princeton's defense stopped harvard twice after its own go-ahead score. but by all means, continue to blame the officiating. just don't give me this "didn't intend to mention it" high and mightiness, because the reason for your silence was that harvard lost. for the second year in a row.</p>
<p>Your willingness to accept victory however you come by it is understandable after such a lengthy losing streak. </p>
<p>The unwillingness to acknowledge that victory, in this case, was an undeserved gift handed to the home team by the officials is hardly what I would call good sportsmanship.</p>
<p>talk about being a sore loser. You are talking about one play. It really didn't decide the outcome - rather the lack of defense did.</p>