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Here's a recap of the game from A Lot of Sports Talk:
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A writer from the Harvard Crimson tried to put the game in perspective. Here's an excerpt from a column headlined, One For the Ages in Harvard, Dartmouth Ivy Battle: (LINK)For days and weeks and months, Harvard players trained with this opponent in mind. They woke up for morning workouts, grunted through non-contact drills, and stayed on campus for summer training. And the seniors on the team—well, they did all this with the knowledge that this season would be their last one.
Meanwhile, 130 miles away in Hanover, N.H., the Big Green underwent the same self-sacrifice, and probably with higher stakes.
The Crimson, a perennial older brother, had won 11 straight matchups heading into 2015, including a 23-12 decision last year to hang Dartmouth its only loss. For the senior-heavy Big Green, last weekend’s clash loomed as the final chance to ensure that years of effort had amounted to something more than just another second-place trophy.
On Friday night, football mattered because the adult memories of so many players hinged on the result, and this statement held true before the game even began.
Very rarely does a sporting contest mean as much as this one did.
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Writing for Ivy on Vine, Harvard running back/receiver Seitu Smith called the contest, "what is considered one of the best games in Ivy league history." He also wrote, "(T)he atmosphere was crazy and this was no doubt the toughest game I’ve ever been part of."
