Harvard travels to Yale Saturday for the 102nd edition of The Game.
The date will be Nov.23, 1985.
The last time Yale and Harvard got together on a Nov.23, the year was 1968.
And the outcome was miraculous.
Harvard scored 16 points in the final 42 seconds that year to manage a 29-29 tie in a contest many consider one of the greatest football games of all-time.
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Let's get right to the trivia question, which this week concerns the 1968 showdown. The two Harvard players who caught passes in the end zone in the waning seconds of that game both went on to become college head coaches.
One was Vic Gatto, who caught the final touchdown that cut the Yale lead to 29-27. He is now the head football coach at Davidson.
Name the other.
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The most dramatic Harvard-Yale game since 1968 took place 10 years ago, when the Crimson won its only undisputed Ivy League crown.
In that 1975 showdown, Harvard and Yale both took 5-1 league records into The Game. The Elis, riding a five-game winning streak, took an early 7-0 lead.
But the Crimson's Tom Winn scored on a two-yd. run midway through the third quarter. Mike Lynch's kick made it 7-7.
Lynch's big moment, though, came with just 33 seconds left to play. With the title on the line, Lynch angled a 26-yd. field goal through the uprights to-give Harvard a 10-7 victory and its only outright Ivy League crown.
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