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001			on1054259770
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005			20181126021503.0
008			180926s2018 nyuaf 001 0deng d
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020			_a9781501104787 _qhardcover
020			_a1501104780 _qhardcover
035			_a(OCoLC)1054259770
043			_an-us---
092			_a796.3326 _bC724
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aColt, George Howe, _eauthor. _966059
245	1	4	_aThe game : _bHarvard, Yale, and America in 1968 / _cGeorge Howe Colt.
250			_aFirst Scribner hardcover edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bScribner, _c2018.
300			_ax, 386 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_aIncludes index.
520			_aOn 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. One player had recently returned from eight months under fire in Vietnam. Two were members of the radical antiwar group SDS. There was an all-American football hero whose nickname was "God." There was one NFL prospect who quit to devote his time to black altruism, another who went on to be Pro-Bowler Calvin Hill. There was a postal clerk's son who worried about fitting in with the preppies, and a wealthy WASP eager to prove he could handle the blue-collar kids' hits. There was a guard named Tommy Lee Jones, and fullback who dated a young Meryl Streep. They came from every class and background, but played side by side and together forged a moment of startling grace in the midst of the storm. Vivid, lively, and constantly surprising, this magnificent and intimate work of history is the story of ordinary people in an extraordinary time, and of a country facing issues that we continue to wrestle with to this day.
505	0		_aPrologue -- Two-a-Days -- Hell No, We Won't Go! -- God Plays Quarterback for Yale -- The Melting Pot -- Opening Up the Club -- Playing Football for the Man -- The Most Dangerous Back in the History of the Ivy League -- Coming Home -- Most Determined Guy Out There -- Second String -- Ballyhoo -- With Almost Contemptuous Ease -- Handkerchiefs -- Forty-Two Seconds -- Pandemonium -- Strike -- Epilogue.
610	2	0	_aHarvard University _xFootball _xHistory. _9377901
610	2	0	_aYale University _xFootball _xHistory. _9377902
650		0	_aFootball players _zUnited States _vBiography. _957324
650		0	_aCollege sports _zUnited States _xHistory. _959931
650		0	_aSports rivalries _zUnited States _xHistory. _9377903
650		0	_aFootball _zUnited States _xHistory. _959933
994			_aC0 _bNFG
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