The Game (Harvard-Yale)

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.

The late 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.

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

Mass media and publishing provide other examples of general interest. George Plimpton reported in the December 3, 2001 issue of The New Yorker Harvard's victory over Yale, ending the Crimson's first undefeated and untied season in several decades.Malcolm Gladwell, in the October 10, 2005 issue of The New Yorker, authored "GETTING IN: The social logic of Ivy League admissions". Jerome Karabel authored in 2005 The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admissions and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.

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