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- From: sme3@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (SCOTT MATTHEW ESTRIN)
- Newsgroups: soc.college
- Subject: Re: Football Rivalry
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.143145.61714@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 14:31:45 GMT
- Organization: Lehigh University
- Lines: 32
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- >> Well, tomorrow's the day for the longest-running football rivalry in the
- >>country: the famous Lehigh-Lafayette game.
- >
- >How long has it been going?
-
- We just played our 128th game.
-
- >Well, after yesterday's near-riot after the Big Game up in Berkeley, I
- >for one would love to see that "tradition" stop. Not the rivalry -- I
- >_love_ the hype and the talk and the rallies and the bonfire and all
- >the stuff that adds up to a real rivalry. What I would love to see
- >end is the violence that seems to accompany every Stanford-Cal game,
- >particularly those up in Berkeley.
-
- I never said I support innocent people getting hurt (those who vountarily rush
- the field with hopes of bashing the other team and end up getting bashed
- themselves, I have no sympathy for), but for decades, both teams rushed the
- field (originally for the goalpost), and this year the tradition stopped.
- That, I thought, was disappointing. (but a sophomore I spoke to said that I
- shouldn't be. She said last year's postgame went too far and it was nice not
- to repeat it)
-
- - Scott
-
-
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- { Scott M. Estrin, PhD. /\ "If it's broken take it apart and look }
- { (Well, maybe someday) <<>> around. If it's not broken, take it }
- { sme3@Lehigh.EDU \/ apart anyway. Then it will be." }
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