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The Harvard–Yale football rivalry, one of the oldest rivalries in US college football and also known as The Game by some followers, is an American college football rivalry between the Harvard Crimson football team of Harvard University and the Yale Bulldogs football team of Yale University. Although the Harvard–Yale rivalry is one of the oldest college football rivalries in the US, the first college football game was between Harvard and McGill. The Game is played in November at the end of the football season, with the venue alternating between Harvard Stadium and the Yale Bowl. Through the 2015 game, Yale leads the series 65-59-8 although Harvard has won the last 9 games. Before the 1916 Game, Yale coach T.A.D. Jones inspired his players to victory (6–3) when he unequivocally asserted, "Gentlemen, you are now going to play football against Harvard. Never again in your whole life will you do anything so important."〔 The Bulldogs defeated Harvard under the guidance of quarterback, Chester J. LaRoche. They finished with an 8-1 record, outscoring its opponents by a combined score of 182 to 44 and suffered its only loss to Brown. (Quote ), (Quote ), (Quote )〕 ==Significance== Not only is The Game historically significant for all college sports, but also many students and alumni of Harvard and Yale, consider The Game one of the most important days of the year. The schools are located only a few hours' travel from one another, and perhaps because they are among the nation's most prestigious and oldest universities, the rivalry is intense. Beating the rival is often considered more important than the team's season record. Since 1900, The Game has been the final game of the season for both teams, since Ivy League schools do not participate in post-season football games (the one exception occurring in 1919, when Harvard beat Yale 3–0 and then went on to the 1920 Rose Bowl Game, in which they defeated Oregon 7–6). The Game is significant for historical reasons in that the first game of the rivalry (in November 1875) was the second American football game played between U.S. colleges featuring a ball-carrying form of the game. Later, new standardized rules of American Football were invented by Walter Camp, a Yale grad and widely considered to be "The Father of American Football". The rules of that game soon were adopted by other schools, such as Rutgers and Princeton, which had been playing soccer (i.e., Association Football) since 1869, and American football quickly became the archetypal college sport. The schools that would become the Ivy League played the leading role in the development of American football in the late 19th century; football's rules, conventions, and equipment, as well as elements of "atmosphere" such as the mascot and fight song, include many elements pioneered or nurtured at Harvard and Yale. For many years, The Game was also likely to determine the Ivy League championship. The Game receives less national attention today; most college football fans are more interested in games between larger institutions whose teams are made up of scholarship athletes, many of them bound for professional careers. The high attendance at Harvard Stadium or the Yale Bowl for the annual contest confirm that The Game still generates interest beyond the respective campuses and alumni bodies; tickets for The Game generally sell out even in modern times when The Game is played at Harvard, as Harvard Stadium's seating capacity is less than half that of the Yale Bowl. The Harvard-Yale rivalry, consisting of two of the best-known universities in the world, is the oldest college rivalry in American Sports. It stems from the Harvard-Yale Regatta, which is America's oldest collegiate athletic competition, first contested in 1852. In 2003, ''Sports Illustrated'' magazine ("On Campus" edition) rated the Harvard–Yale rivalry as the sixth-best in college athletics. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Harvard–Yale football rivalry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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