THE GAME, HARVARD V YALE

Late November · Cambridge or New Haven · One Day · Since 1875

2027: dates to follow

A Harvard receiver leaps for the ball over a Yale defender before a packed crowd. The Game, Harvard v Yale, Fenway Park, Boston (2018), in the season calendar of The Mansa Court — I · Fenway Park, Boston, 2018

The Game is the football match between Harvard and Yale, first played on the thirteenth of November 1875.

It is usually played on the Saturday before Thanksgiving.

Fenway Park

In 2018 it was played away from both universities, at Fenway Park in Boston. The first two plates are from that game.

The Yale Bowl from the air, YALE painted in both end zones (2021). The Yale Bowl, New Haven, Connecticut, shown for The Game, Harvard v Yale in the season calendar of The Mansa Court — III · The Yale Bowl

The Two Grounds

It alternates between Harvard Stadium, in Cambridge, and the Yale Bowl, in New Haven. The venue for 2027 has not been announced.

A black-and-white photograph of The Game before packed stands, players leaping for a pass. The Game, Harvard v Yale, An earlier Game, in the season calendar of The Mansa Court — IV · An Earlier Game

What to Know

It was not played in 2020.

The Court wears country attire.

The Game Dinner, in early November, is the Court’s own and a separate occasion.

Harvard’s defensive line regroups between plays. The Game, Harvard v Yale, United States, in the season calendar of The Mansa Court — V · Between Plays

The Court

The Game is not the Court’s own. Seats are sought on a member’s behalf, and the Court arranges the whole of it: getting there, where to stay, and the table afterward.

How one becomes a member is set out under Admission.