It would probably be a good idea to stay around Cambridge this weekend. Of course, if you have something really important to do, you may leave, but don't blame me if you miss a great football game or your Ernie Roberts breakfast of herring, prunes, and sausage and eggs, with your favorite Quincy House maypo.
Brown weekend festivities begin Friday, when the Harvard cross country team duels opponents from Princeton and Yale at Franklin Field in Boston. The Crimson harriers already disposed of a weak Brown cross country team, despite a torrential downpour and a slew of disqualifications when Harvard runners took their shirts off.
The first Harvard team to face a contingent from Providence will be the booters. If you want to get in free to see this fiasco against the best soccer team in the Ivy League, be at the Business School field at 10:30 with special event coupon 21, or you'll have to pay $1.50.
The football festivities will probably start Friday night and extend through the game, which starts at 1:30. The most important things to remember during the game are the cheers. Not those standard, rowdy cheers, but those special cheers, neatly tailored for the hordes from Brown. They are devastatingly witty and will humble the heathen Bruins.
"What's the color of shit?", you will yell when the Brown band runs onto the field, or when the Brown football team scores its first touchdown. "You may be winning, but you still go to Brown!", you will scream when those wretches on the other side of the field start waving their white handkerchiefs.
Professionally speaking, all the Boston action is going to be on t.v. this weekend. Only the Bruins and the Patriots are going to be on the tube, though. The Bruins will be beaming in from Montreal Saturday night at 8 p.m. and from Buffalo Sunday at 7 p.m.
The Patriots are taking their crusade to Miami where they hope to give the Dolphins a little religion. That game will begin at 1 p.m. on Sunday. Celtics fans will have to be satisfied with Johnny Most commentary tonight at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday at 8:30 p.m.
