The ep47 The Big Game

This is Jimmy Powers and happy to be coming your way with another Grantlin Rice story. There, this is Jimmy Powers transcribed with another chapter from Grantlin Rice's memorable life story, The Tumalt and The Shouting.

And so with a warm salute to the every young spirit of Granny Rice, I take up the narrative in first person. Gentlemen, Tad Jones said in the Cathedral Hush before the big game, You are about to play football for Yale against Harvard.

again will you do anything so important. Corny as it may sound, there are many old blues who feel the old Yale coach was right. The Yale Harvard game is the big game, alright? A pairing colored with tradition and legend and drama that stirs the blood.

D-Day each year is generally the last week in November. For a lot of incorrigible fans, the season opens and closes with the traditional big game. West all around the country you have big games, Stanford, California, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio State, Michigan, Tulane, Louisiana State, Oregon, Oregon State, Lafayette, Lehigh, Wabash DePaul, Cornell, Penn, Syracuse, Colgate, Texas, Texas Aggies, and of course, Army Navy.

Whether there's a national championship, a bold bid, or just plain honor at stake, big games and variably are classics. While wilting before other teams, a squad can suddenly become absolutely fearless to rise up and slap down an intrinsically superior enemy.

They were comparing all-conquering Boston College with the Chicago Bears in 1942. When lightly regarded Holy Cross ported on against the Eagles, 55 to 12, one radio announcer in another eastern city couldn't believe it. He refused to put the score on the air.

goes. One year, a New Orleans newspaper headline, tackle Caddo Thelman of LSU vigorously denies biting ear of Tulane's chambers. One of the most dramatic big games was the 1926 Garrison finish between Ohio State and Michigan. The Buckeyes jumped off to a ten-point advantage, but the young men from Ann Arbor met the challenge magnificently. Benny Friedman's defeat cheating