Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...

NEW HAVEN — There aren’t usually mysteries to unravel whe n Yale and Harvard arrive at The Game. These are ancient rivals that stalk on another throughout the season, all the chips pushed into the pot on that certain Saturday in November.

So if Yale was going to pull an upset Saturday, they would count on their senior captain, seemingly indestructible running back Josh Pitsenberger pounding the line of scrimmage with the football, chewing up yardage and time.

Harvard knew that, and Yale knew that Harvard knew that. Yale also knew it would need something else.

“We grew better over the last week knowing there would be a lot of man-to-man (coverage) and they were going to try to load the box to stop the best running back in the country,” qu

See Full Page