rosin (11/23/82)
The following is extracted (without permission) from the sports section of the New York Times, Sunday, November 21, 1982. Harvard may have defeated Yale yesterday, but the Massachusetts Institute of Technology easily won the game for one-upmanship. . . The contest, played before a capacity crowd of 40,000, had one bizarre moment. After the second Harvard touchdown late in the second period, a balloon suddenly began to inflate slowly out of the ground near midfield. The letters "M.I.T." were scrawled over the drak object, which then burst as players, officials and coaches stood about cautiously. After five minutes of delay Harvard groundskeepers put the field in order and the contest resumed. The balloon was inflated by a cannister and both had been planted beneath the turf. No one knew by whom. [Har, har, har, . . .]