bulldog10jw wrote:
I sat through the '87 Ice Bowl, IT
I have never been so cold in my life. 19 degrees with the wind blowing about 40 miles an hour. One of Harvard's TDs was scored following a Yale punt from their end zone that went about 10 yards. It was sunny, though.
The day before had been about 50 and beautiful for the freshman game.
IIRC, Harvard's hoss RB that year was from Montana. So I guess the cold didn't bother him!
That was Kelly Ryan's senior year. Great QB. Probably behind only Dowling among the Yale QB's in my years watching football. Had Yale driving in the last couple of minutes when Yale's RB Troy Jenkins fumbled after gaining a bunch of yards on a screen pass around the Harvard 25 or 30 yard line.
No complaint. His hands must have been frozen and Harvard really was the better team that year. Yale was really a one man show and pulled out last minute wins over Penn, UConn, and Holy Cross all because of Ryan.
Ivytalk wrote:
IIRC, Harvard's hoss RB that year was from Montana. So I guess the cold didn't bother him!
That was Kelly Ryan's senior year. Great QB. Probably behind only Dowling among the Yale QB's in my years watching football. Had Yale driving in the last couple of minutes when Yale's RB Troy Jenkins fumbled after gaining a bunch of yards on a screen pass around the Harvard 25 or 30 yard line.
No complaint. His hands must have been frozen and Harvard really was the better team that year. Yale was really a one man show and pulled out last minute wins over Penn, UConn, and Holy Cross all because of Ryan.
bulldog10jw wrote:
That was Kelly Ryan's senior year. Great QB. Probably behind only Dowling among the Yale QB's in my years watching football. Had Yale driving in the last couple of minutes when Yale's RB Troy Jenkins fumbled after gaining a bunch of yards on a screen pass around the Harvard 25 or 30 yard line.
No complaint. His hands must have been frozen and Harvard really was the better team that year. Yale was really a one man show and pulled out last minute wins over Penn, UConn, and Holy Cross all because of Ryan.
Frank Ryan's son, right?
No relation as far as I know. Frank was Yale's AD for several years and was NOT well liked by the coaches. Took the job when Cozza decided he would rather stay coaching than become the AD.
That was in '76 and Yale's run of great teams ended 5 years later. I always wonder if Carm made a mistake by not taking the AD job and working with admissions in a more positive way than Ryan (apparently) did.
Aho Old Guy wrote:
It's tough winging it with a single chef without his saucier. Thank goodness for our Port-A-Bidet.
And good sommeliers don't come cheap these days!
We all have to make sacrifices during the ... ahhhh, screw it!
I'm late to my dinner at The Club!
(here's hoping for a big crowd, great game, and a better party!)
"But the damned and the guiltiest among you are the men who had the capacity to know, yet chose to blank out reality, the men who were willing to sell their intelligence into cynical servitude..."
- John Galt
