The Game Predictions

Truth & Lies

"28-10 Yale."

--Yale University President

Richard Levin, GRD '74

"The Game will be close enough to provide a thrilling conclusion, but in the end, virtue will be rewarded. The score: Yale 24, Harvard 21. You can count on it."

--Yale College Dean

Richard Brodhead, BR '68, GRD '72

"There's no doubt in my mind that Yale will win! We will win because we have an especially amazing team and record this year, and because I know we're ready to kick a little Cantab ass!"

--Yale College Council

President Zachary Kaufman, SY '00

"I'm not too good at picking points, but I do know for a fact that Yale will win The Game given their prowess over Princeton this last weekend. I feel certain we will win by a very respectable margin."

--Yale College Dean of Students

Betty Trachtenberg

"Yale's going to win. There's no question. They've gotten better every week. Now they have the metal attitude of winners, and the Princeton game showed that."

--New York Governor

George Pataki, PC '67

"I predict a great Yale victory that snatches any remnant of Harvard dignity that they have left. Harvard will rue the day as Yale annihilates them."

--Senator John Kerry (D-MA), JE '66

"It is clear. Harvard will win in overtime."

--Harvard University President

Neil Rudenstine

"Harvard by three."

--Harvard Dean of Students

Archie C. Epps

"Harvard wins 23-2."

--Dean of Harvard College

Harry R. Lewis

"We're sure that Harvard will beat Yale this year."

--Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA)

"Harvard will beat Yale in grand style. We will win by three points off one of those field goals. Then Harvard will party in Cambridge all night."

--Harvard professor Cornel West

"Without question, Harvard will reign victorious at The Game, just as she does on every other relevant aspect of life. By Saturday evening, poor Eli will be badly beaten and lying in a pool of Crimson defeat."

--Harvard University College Council President Beth Stewart

"Well, how'd each team do against
Nebraska this year? That's a joke. 17-3 Harvard."

--George F. Will, "Meet the Press"

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