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From: fishkin@ucbvax.ARPA (Ken Fishkin)
Newsgroups: net.college
Subject: Re: THE game
Message-ID: <3477@ucbvax.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 26-Nov-84 12:53:40 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 26 12:53:40 1984
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In article <6433@yale.ARPA> dardik@yale.ARPA (The Lord ) writes:
>Let's be serious now - everyone really knows what THE one and only game
>is (hint:  Yale beat Harvard 30-27), so knock it off, huh?  -Alan

Two years ago, this same issue came up in net.sport.football.
As a new grad at Berkeley, I was amazed to find that anybody could
be referring to anything but the Michigan-Ohio State game as "The Big Game".
I asked netters the following: "If somebody asks you what the score was
in The Big Game, what game do you think of?".
	Here's a list of the responses (as many as I remember):

	Ohio State - Michigan
	Berkeley - Stanford
	Yale - Harvard
	Lehigh - Bucknell
	Texas Somebody - Texas Somebody Else

Perhaps more surprising were the games which, I was told, were *not*
given any special designation: Oklahoma-Texas, Pitt-Penn State,
Florida-Florida State, USC-UCLA.

	My memory is pretty fuzzy, though; any other nominees?
-- 
		Ken Fishkin		Berkeley Computer Graphics Lab
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