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Post by rickii on Nov 29, 2017 18:12:58 GMT -5
Saw it on twitter somewhere earlier today. |
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Post by purplehaze on Nov 30, 2017 10:54:21 GMT -5
After drawing 51,000 + this year in New Haven, they will sell out the 37,000 + at Fenway - the Ivies continue to spring past the PL in FCS prestige (and the on-field product) . I wish it wasn't so.
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Post by joe on Nov 30, 2017 11:16:05 GMT -5
This is where HC-BC should be played if and when we can make a respectable showing. There is some serious football history. If we can't do that, we should be playing someone there, someday. Yankee Stadium was cool but too big and without the history.
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Post by lou on Nov 30, 2017 16:15:07 GMT -5
Why would they leave Harvard Stadium for Fenway, a baseball field? Renovations?
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Post by timholycross on Nov 30, 2017 16:50:49 GMT -5
The Globe readers comments are dead on about this. It sucks. Doesn't seem to be forced either.
And how the hell could you play a game commemorating Harvard beating Yale 29-29 anywhere else but where it happened?
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Post by cmo on Nov 30, 2017 18:05:44 GMT -5
I think renovations at Harvard
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Post by bison137 on Nov 30, 2017 19:07:48 GMT -5
I think renovations at Harvard Yes. The email sent out by Murphy to their boosters said; "“Due to the potential restoration work on Harvard Stadium, we will be hosting the 2018 Harvard-Yale game at Fenway Park,” |
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Nov 30, 2017 19:10:58 GMT -5
After drawing 51,000 + this year in New Haven, they will sell out the 37,000 + at Fenway - the Ivies continue to spring past the PL in FCS prestige (and the on-field product) . I wish it wasn't so. Lehigh-Lafayette drew 40,000+ at Yankee Stadium - not too bad. HC-Fordham about 24K on paper but appeared to be less. Many did not want to leave the warm comfort of the River Avenue bars. |
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Post by timholycross on Nov 30, 2017 20:29:56 GMT -5
The restoration issue makes more sense....but if that's a problem, where is Harvard playing the rest of their home games?
BU's big enough for your average Ivy crowd, then there's BC that's about it.
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Post by hcnation on Nov 30, 2017 20:47:10 GMT -5
The restoration issue makes more sense....but if that's a problem, where is Harvard playing the rest of their home games? BU's big enough for your average Ivy crowd, then there's BC that's about it. Harvard Stadium opened in 1903 and predates the construction of Fenway Park, completed in 1912. All other Harvard football home games will be played at Harvard Stadium in 2018, according to the Athletics Department. www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/11/30/harvard-yale-fenway/ |
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Post by bison137 on Nov 30, 2017 21:00:32 GMT -5
The restoration issue makes more sense....but if that's a problem, where is Harvard playing the rest of their home games? BU's big enough for your average Ivy crowd, then there's BC that's about it. They are playing the other games in Harvard Stadium. Since they generally only draw 10,000 a game in a 30,000 seat stadium, it is possible they can work around the renovations by shutting down part of the stadium for all of those other games. |
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Post by sader1970 on Nov 30, 2017 21:51:23 GMT -5
Guess I'm the only one who feels like "who cares?"
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Post by hc87 on Nov 30, 2017 21:55:27 GMT -5
Football games at Fenway are sooo 1942  |
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Post by rickii on Dec 1, 2017 9:00:21 GMT -5
Guess I'm the only one who feels like "who cares?" +1
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