Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 (2008)

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• Release Date: 2008-11-19 - NY and/or LA
• Distributor(s): Film Forum
• Film Genre(s): Documentary
• Country: United States
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HARVARD BEATS YALE 29-29 (the title was a Harvard Crimson headline), a paean to college days of the ‘60s and a look at Ivy League culture, then and now. Harvard Stadium, November 23, 1968: for the first time since 1909, the football teams of Harvard and Yale are undefeated as they meet for their final game. Yale is heavily favored: Brian Dowling, their captain and quarterback – who had famously not lost a game since 7th grade – has been satirized as “B.D.” in classmate Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury strip; he’s joined by halfback Calvin Hill, a future NFL Hall of Fame inductee. Harvard’s lineman is Tommy Lee Jones, at the time Al Gore’s roommate. Yale was in the lead, 29-13, with only 42 seconds left in the game. What happened? Both Dowling and Jones recall this wildly unpredictable game with amazing precision and, in Jones’s case, an extraordinarily dry sense of humor. Jones is particularly droll describing how he and Gore spent a grim Thanksgiving (“we didn’t have any place to go”) roasting a turkey in their dorm suite fireplace.

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