Andy Sherman’s daughter spotted a San Francisco Chronicle article on the new documentary “Harvard Beats Yale 29-29” by Kevin Rafferty, who saw The Game as a Harvard student in 1968. The article profiles four players including our classmate Ron Kell:
“Ron Kell didn’t remember anything specific about the Game until he watched the DVD. Then he remembered it too well. If he’d been just a step closer in defending one late pass he would have had a goal-line interception, and the morning headline would have been what it should have been: ‘Yale Beats Harvard 29-16.’ . . .
“‘The whole tone of the movie was “here are these enlightened Harvard guys and the Yale aristocrats,”‘ says Kell, a Navy brat who had never lived anywhere longer than the four years he spent at Yale. ‘It was not a bunch of elitists by any stretch of the imagination.’ . . .”
For the full article, “A toss back in time: ‘Harvard Beats Yale 29-29’ by Chronicle staff writer Sam Whiting (Mar. 6, 2009), click here or visit SFgate.com.