On Saturday, a Harvard-Yale game once again showed itself as a battle between two names and one of the most storied sports rivalries of all time, just like all the others.

This game—like all the others between the Elis and the Cantabs—was from the very start about institutions and history, and not simply about two teams’ individual seasons, in the same way that Yankees-Red Sox is supposedly about 86 years of history and not just one.

It was about pride and going to Harvard, quite frankly, and the expectations fundamental to any good 300-year-old rivalry.

On that aforementioned Valentine’s Day of this year, the Harvard basketball team appeared to get just that—just felt it, maybe, as a suddenly energetic crowd urged them on—and the team unwrapped a lovely Valentine’s Day present for the Bulldog faithful with pre-game journalistic assaults having only heightened the tension.

Somehow, the stakes got even higher than they were already going to be, and now you know the rest of the story.

For just as The Game 2003 was historic for more than football-related numbers, more than Ivy League standings, so was this.

So was Saturday.

Just as the teams’ men’s ice hockey match-up from earlier in the year was incredible, something to be remembered—an astonishing comeback from being down 5-1 to win by a score of 7-5—so was this.

Just as a row of other close, bitterly-contested contests throughout the years have erupted to shatter the entire notion of the foregone conclusion—and, at times, logic—so did this.

At Harvard-Yale earlier this year, it was Yale quarterback Alvin Cowan whose performance paced the Elis, as he set stratospheric all-time Bulldog records for total offense (466 yards) and passing yards in a game (438).

In the annual hockey match-up, goalie Josh Gartner made 51 saves and looked to be cruising to an easy victory as late as the third period as his team led by a comfortable three goal-margin.

And in that fateful basketball game, there was guard Edwin Draughan, whose 21 points and six assists valiantly tried to suppress the reprisal from this year’s unequivocal Ivy doormat, and almost did in the final seconds.

Today, we have the pleasure of inducting Yale’s men’s lacrosse team to that illustrious list.

Elis Dan Brillman, Ned Britt and Scott Kenworthy collectively scored four unanswered goals to take a 10-8 lead into the fourth and final period, seemingly rolling with the momentum on their side.

But what, again, do all these aforementioned players have in common?