The cover of George Howe Colt’s engaging book, The Game: Harvard, Yale and America in 1968, clearly shows a scoreboard with time expired, the score is 29-29 and fans celebrating on the field. Why read a book where one already knows the outcome, never mind the fact the outcome is a tie?
Well, for one thing it’s an excellent snapshot not only of what college football was like half a century ago but what the country was experiencing in 1968. Then there’s the fact that Calvin Hill was a Yale running back and Tommy Lee Jones a guard for Harvard.