Shoreline Village CT Presents the Highly Acclaimed Documentary, "Harvard Beats Yale 29-29"

SVCT invites you to a very special event. On January 20th, from 1-4 pm at the Branford Firehouse Community Room we will be screening “Harvard Beats Yale 29-29,” a superb documentary about an unforgettable game. The film was made in recognition of the 40th anniversary of the tie and features many of the players, now in their 60s, looking back on that day and that era. Yes, it's about football but it is also about a whole lot more. Note the following press release: 

"An incredible true story that unfolds like a ripping good yarn... With an uproarious, impossible Hollywood ending (Andrew O Hehir, Salon.com), Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 is filmmaker Kevin Rafferty s (The Atomic Cafe) acclaimed documentary depicting one of the most legendary games in the history of sports. Harvard Stadium November 23, 1968. With Vietnam raging, Nixon in the White House, and issues from civil rights to women's lib dividing the country, Harvard and Yale, both teams undefeated for the first time since 1909, meet for the annual climax of the Ivy League football season. On the blue-blooded Yale campus, gridiron fever has made local celebrities out of a Yale team led by quarterback Brian Dowling, who hadn’t lost a game that he finished since the 7th grade, and who was the role model for Doonesbury s B.D. As civil unrest scarred Harvard, a melting pot team of working class players, antiwar activists, and a decorated Vietnam vet set aside their differences for the Big Game. Together, Yale and Harvard stage an unforgettable football contest that baffled even their own coaches. Using vintage game footage and bracingly honest contemporary interviews with the players from both sides, including Harvard lineman and future Oscar® winner Tommy Lee Jones (No Country for Old Men), Rafferty crafts an alternately suspenseful, hilarious, and poignant portrait of American lives, American sports, and American ideals both tested on the playing field and transformed by turbulent times."

The screening will be followed by comments from one of the film's stars and one of Yale's most heralded football players, Brian Dowling, who quarterbacked Yale on that day.