dardik@yale.ARPA (The Lord ) (11/25/84)
Let's be serious now - everyone really knows what THE one and only game is (hint: Yale beat Harvard 30-27), so knock it off, huh? -Alan
fishkin@ucbvax.ARPA (Ken Fishkin) (11/26/84)
In article <6433@yale.ARPA> dardik@yale.ARPA (The Lord ) writes: >Let's be serious now - everyone really knows what THE one and only game >is (hint: Yale beat Harvard 30-27), so knock it off, huh? -Alan Two years ago, this same issue came up in net.sport.football. As a new grad at Berkeley, I was amazed to find that anybody could be referring to anything but the Michigan-Ohio State game as "The Big Game". I asked netters the following: "If somebody asks you what the score was in The Big Game, what game do you think of?". Here's a list of the responses (as many as I remember): Ohio State - Michigan Berkeley - Stanford Yale - Harvard Lehigh - Bucknell Texas Somebody - Texas Somebody Else Perhaps more surprising were the games which, I was told, were *not* given any special designation: Oklahoma-Texas, Pitt-Penn State, Florida-Florida State, USC-UCLA. My memory is pretty fuzzy, though; any other nominees? -- Ken Fishkin Berkeley Computer Graphics Lab ucbvax!fishkin fishkin@berkeley
ag5@pucc-k (Henry C. Mensch) (11/27/84)
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Now, now... Everybody who's anybody <in Indiana, anyway> knows
that the BIG GAME is the Purdue U. -- Indiana U. game ... such battle I
have never seen, and all for the temporary ownership of the Old Oaken
Bucket.. <heeheehee!>
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"Season's Beatings!" ;-}waltt@tekecs.UUCP (Walt Tucker) (11/28/84)
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Most people agree in Oregon that THE game is:
OREGON -- OREGON STATE
The two colleges are in towns that are about 45 miles from each other.
It makes for quite a rivalry. The above, of course, is NCAA, which is
what most people pay attention to.
However, I went to a small state college (full-time enrollment = 2700) in
southern Oregon called Oregon Institute of Technology (OIT) that was NAIA
conference. THE Game down there was:
OIT -- SOSC (Southern Oregon State College)
After losing heavily for a number of years (they didn't even score until the
fourth game my first year in college), OIT began making a comeback. In 1979,
OIT was undefeated (best record on the west coast that year) going into the
homecoming game with SOSC. Up to that day, OIT had not won a football game
against SOSC in 21 games in 18 years. Needless to say, the town of Klamath
Falls was pumped. The mayor proclaimed the day, "Beat Southern Oregon State
Day."
Of course, we won. It snowed, it rained, and it blew, but OIT hammered SOSC
into the ground with an embarrasing 45 - 14 win. There was a hot time in
the old town that night.
Ah, college memories,
Walt Tucker
Tektronix, Inc.srt@ucla-cs.UUCP (11/29/84)
Gee, I thought THE game was the Washington University (St. Louis) -
Rose Hulman soccer game :-)
Scott R. Turner
UCLA Computer Science Department
3531 Boelter Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90024
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UUCP: ...!{cepu,ihnp4,trwspp,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!srtwed722@uiucuxa.UUCP (11/29/84)
ill ini ill any game illinois plays at home is a big game. (ohio and ini ill michigan, bah!!!) ini ill ini
presley@mhuxj.UUCP (Joe Presley) (11/30/84)
And all along I thought it was the match-up between Henderson State University and Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas (NAIA). The campuses are separated by a street and the game week shenanigans can get pretty hairy. The HSU frats try to break off the tail on the bronze OBU Tiger statue: naturally, it's very well guarded. The county being dry seems to have very little bearing on the sobreity of the frats and the jocks. The game they had my last year at HSU (1973) we lost 4-0 (ugh!). -- Joe Presley (ihnp4!j.presley)
fair@dual.UUCP (Erik E. Fair) (12/01/84)
While we're waxing nostalgic on the subject of great rivalries,
who else (besides the alums of the respective institutions involved)
remembers vaguely the incredible 1982 Cal - Stanford ``Big Game''?
What famous player said in an interview the next day,
``In four seconds, they ruined my entire college career''?
With luck, Stanford will never live down The Play.
Erik E. Fair ucbvax!fair fair@ucb-arpa.ARPA
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Dual Systems Corporation, Berkeley, Californialorne@uokvax.UUCP (12/05/84)
WRONG WRONG WRONG. You people don't know what THE GAME really means. You have your cross town rivalries and your intra-state rivalries. But here in Oklahoma, we have the ONE and ONLY BIG GAME. OKLAHOMA - TEXAS. (football of course) (notice how texas is last). This is an inter-state rivalry, this game is so big that they have to pick a neutral town to have it in (that is if you can call Dallas neutral). We even get a long weekend to recover from the after effects. I mean this game is big, bigger than OU-Nebraska (a piddly BIG-8 rivalry), and much larger than the OU-OSU (Oklahoma State) which is a tiny intra-state rivalry (we always kick their ass). The cal - stanford game is nothing compared to what happens at Dallas every year in october. Oregon - Oregon State Huh, when were they on National TV? Come on people get real, Oklahoma - Texas is the only game and is the only TRUE "The GAME". What do people in Texas have to say about this. Come on I know there are some people out there who live in Dallas, what do you think about this game.... Let us hear from you Lorne uokvax!lorne Soon to be the #1 team in the nation
gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg J Kuperberg) (12/08/84)
> Let's be serious now - everyone really knows what THE one and only game > is (hint: Yale beat Harvard 30-27), so knock it off, huh? -Alan Obviously Yale cheated. --- Greg Kuperberg harvard!talcott!gjk "Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government." -Monty Python
cuccia@ucbvax.ARPA (Nick Cuccia) (12/22/84)
> While we're waxing nostalgic on the subject of great rivalries, > who else (besides the alums of the respective institutions involved) > remembers vaguely the incredible 1982 Cal - Stanford ``Big Game''? I guess that I don't count as an alum, since I'm (miraculously) still here. I was on the Cal 40, about ten rows back. To say the least, it was WEIRD!! Guys looked like they were down, but suddenly you see this person running through the Stanfurd Marching Banned. Then silence, then the cannon on Tightwad Hill went off. They gave Cal the score. Forget sanity; it felt good partying on the astroturf with thousands of others. Then I went back to Evans Hall and finished up a lab. > What famous player said in an interview the next day, > > ``In four seconds, they ruined my entire college career''? Not hard. John Elway, in his last game wearing the Cardinal and white. Question: is it true that Elway (John) has never won a Cal-Stanfurd matchup? > With luck, Stanford will never live down The Play. > > Erik E. Fair ucbvax!fair fair@ucb-arpa.ARPA --Nick Cuccia --ucbvax!cuccia --cuccia@ucb-vax.arpa