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Harvard's athletic rivalry with Yale...
is intense in every sport in which they meet, coming to a climax each fall in their annual American Football meeting, which dates to 1875 and is usually called simply The Game. Harvard has won The Game for the past five years running. While Harvard's football team is no longer one of the country's best (it won the Rose Bowl in 1920) as it often was a century ago during football's early days, it, along with Yale, has influenced the way the game is played. In 1903, Harvard Stadium introduced a new era into football with the first-ever permanent reinforced concrete stadium of its kind in the country. The sport eventually adopted the forward pass (invented by Yale coach Walter Camp) because of the stadium's structure.
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