Harvard-Yale football rivalry

Harvard–Yale football rivalry
Harvard Crimson	Yale Bulldogs
First game played	November 13, 1875
Played annually since	1897 (Not played 1917–1918 due to World War I; 1943–44 due to World War II)
Games played	133 (through 2016)
Series record	Yale leads, 66–59–8
Largest margin of victory	Yale 54, Harvard 0 (November 23, 1957)
Highest scoring game	Yale 33, Harvard 31 (November 20, 1993)
Lowest scoring game	Yale 0, Harvard 0 (last time: November 21, 1925)
Most recent game	Yale 21, Harvard 14 (November 19, 2016)
Next game	November 18, 2017
Current win streak	Yale, 1

The Harvard–Yale football rivalry is renewed annually with The Game, an American college football contest between the Harvard Crimson football team of Harvard University and the Yale Bulldogs football team of Yale University. Yale leads the series 66–59–8.

"Harvard and Yale generally duke it out in the academic arena" but geographic proximity, the history of Yale's founding, and social competition between the respective student bodies and alumni contingents animate the athletic rivalry.

Harvard football head coach Joe Restic, who held position for 23 seasons, quipped regarding his relationship with retired Yale football head coach and National Football Foundation/College Football Hall of Fame member Carm Cozza, who held position for 32 seasons: "Each year, we're friends for 364 days and rivals for one". Members of the respective university communities identify with the sentiment.

The undergraduate, graduate and alumni communities agree on their appropriate archrival. The signature Harvard fight song, "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard," names Yale in the famous final stanza. "March On Down The Field" is Yale's signature fight song, and Harvard is the foe named.

The rivalry extends beyond the football field and classroom. The Yale Investment Office and Harvard Management Office, each responsible for managing its employer's massive endowment, have the annual rates of growth compared and contrasted by the media.The Game is a significant tribal touchstone, consistent with football's historic position in American collegiate and alumni culture.

"A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard" from Moby-Dick by Herman Melville examples public fascination with both institutions.

The University of Mississippi's first football team, organized by Alexander Bondurant, adopted yale blue and crimson for team colors in 1893.

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