The game
Subtitle: Harvard, Yale, and America in 1968
By: George Howe Colt
Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9781501104787
Subjects: Yale University; College sports; Harvard University; Football players; Sports rivalries; Football; Biography; History
Description: "On November 23, 1968, near the end of a turbulent and memorable year, there was a football game that would also prove turbulent and memorable: the season-ending clash between Harvard and Yale. Both teams entered undefeated and, technically at least, came out undefeated. The final score was 29-29. To some of the players on the field, it was a triumph; to others a tragedy. And to many, the reasons had as much to do with one side’s miraculous comeback in the game’s final 42 seconds as it did with the months that preceded it, months that witnessed the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy, police brutality at the Democratic National Convention, inner-city riots, campus takeovers, and, looming over everything, the war in Vietnam. George Howe Colt’s The Game is the story of that iconic American year, as seen through the young men who lived it and were changed by it"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.