On November 20, 2004 at the 121st Yale-Harvard game, 20 Elis donned custom made "Harvard Pep Squad" t-shirts, applied enemy-red war paint on their faces, and set out to pull a prank on 1800 Harvard alumni. Like clockwork, these brave Elis proceeded to exude more Harvard spirit than any Cantab ever... tossing t-shirts to the lucky and unsuspecting few, and passing out 1800 sheets of red & white construction paper in perfect order to the cheering Harvard crowd. With 4:47 minutes left in the second quarter of the game, each member of the crowd raised their sheet of paper expecting to spell out "Go Harvard" as they were told by the cheering "Harvard Pep Squad." Instead, the truth was revealed to a laughing crowd of YALE alumni and students who saw the Harvard crowd spell out in clear red letters "WE SUCK."
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Harvard Sucks
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Awesome prank, wish I would have been there. You gotta love college rivalries.
As a Cal student, I knew pranks were a big part of the Big Game tradition, but in my four years at Cal, I don't remember us ever doing a prank against Stanfurd. The only recent prank that I can somewhat identify with was in 1997 when Cal students broke into the Stanfurd PA system and on a Stanfurd penalty they spoke over the loudspeaker system, "personal foul...excessive arrogance." I wish I would have been there for that one too.