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Throwback Thursday: a Game for the ages

By Mark Alden Branch ’86 | 10:00pm November 20 2024

Preparing for The Game on Saturday, we were reminded that yesterday was the 25th anniversary of one of the greatest Yale-Harvard football games of all time. At the Bowl in 1999, quarterback Joe Walland ’00, feverish from tonsillitis and nursing a sprained thumb, threw 51 consecutive passes in the second half after the Crimson shut down the Bulldogs' running game in the first half. The last of those passes, with 29 seconds left in the game, was caught in the end zone by a diving Eric Johnson ’01 (pictured) to give Yale a 24–21 victory.

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