Cornell-Harvard football to be telecast

[Al DeFlorio]

On Versus, October 11, at noon eastern time: http://www.versus.com/cfb

[Flyers1037]

5 Ivy League games on national TV?  I never thought I would see that.  Yale-Harvard should be entertaining.

[Trotsky]

[quote Flyers1037]5 Ivy League games on national TV?  I never thought I would see that.  Yale-Harvard should be entertaining.[/quote]I can recall when WNET had an Ivy football game every weekend.  I always figured that went out to the whole PBS network, but I could be wrong.


Wiki-edit: The ones in the 70's were strictly NYC; PBS did run a weekly Ivy game across the network in the mid-80s.

[Al DeFlorio]

[quote Trotsky][quote Flyers1037]5 Ivy League games on national TV?  I never thought I would see that.  Yale-Harvard should be entertaining.[/quote]I can recall when WNET had an Ivy football game every weekend.  I always figured that went out to the whole PBS network, but I could be wrong.


Wiki-edit: The ones in the 70's were strictly NYC; PBS did run a weekly Ivy game across the network in the mid-80s.[/quote]
There were a few seasons when all Cornell games--or likely it was only home games--were broadcast courtesy of a few wealthy alums (Roger Weiss?  others?).  Sean McDonough did play-by-play.  May have been in the Hofher era, because I remember the camera zeroing in on him as he ripped into one player so obnoxiously that even the Cornell-paid announcers were questioning his actions.