The Game 138: Westchester Celebrates

 

Yale and Harvard alumni and friends gathered in Mamaroneck for a Watch Party to view the 138th Game (YWAA photos)

An Ivy League title was at stake when Yale and Harvard confronted each other for The 138th Game. Yale's Team 149, as this year's version of the Bulldogs calls themselves, journeyed to old Harvard Stadium Nov. 19 with an agenda: Win the Ivy League outright. Take care of business.  (The 149 pays homage to a storied football history. This squad is Yale's 149th, dating back to the days of Walter Camp, leather helmets, and the birth of the forward pass.)

Yale Westchester, meanwhile, joined its Harvard counterpart alumni group in Westchester to host a Watch Party to view the game on national television (ESPNU). Dozens of Yale alumni groups across the country also cheered for the Bulldogs and toasted the team as it triumphed, 19-14, in Boston. Decadent Ales, a craft brewery in Mamaroneck, hosted the Westchester event. YWAA board members Hanna Kim and Tim Mattison, among others, helped organize the gathering. 

With cold winds blowing and the sun falling, Team 149 marched down the field late in The Game to assume a lead, 19-14, it held until the end. Meanwhile, in Westchester, YWAA took the lead in a different tally and eased to its own informal victory: Yale alumni and friends in attendance, 41. Harvard alumni and friends in attendance, 9.