HARVARD BEATS YALE 29-29 (2008) ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Kevin Rafferty
Aging jocks recall an amazing Ivy League football game they played in 40 years ago. It was the last game of the season in 1968. Yale and Harvard were both undefeated, and Yale, ranked #16 in the country, was expected to win easily. For the game's first 59 minutes, it looked like that would happen, but the football gods had other ideas. Harvard lineman Tommy Lee Jones is one of the talking-head witnesses. Film footage and original play-by-play commentary reinforce (and sometimes contradict) what the players remember. It's a lot more exciting and entertaining than you might expect. Al Gore (Jones' Harvard roommate), George W. Bush (a Yale cheerleader), Garry Trudeau (who had just started to write "Doonesbury" at Yale), and even Meryl Streep (the invisibly quiet girlfriend of one of the players) all turn up in tangential anecdotes. How do you win a tie game? How do you lose one? Watch this movie and find out.
