The 12 Top Rivalries
Newsweek, August, 2008 by Jay Mathews
Harvard and Yale officially deny any competition between the two Ivies. Ditto Annapolis and West Point. But Ohio State and Michigan invite students to bring it on. Who’s really the best? You decide.
Rivalry? What Rivalry? Ask our most famous colleges about their feuds with celebrated adversaries and they brush them off as no longer relevant in an open-minded, caring age of national unity. “Sir, we do not consider ourselves rivals with our sister academies except on the fields of friendly strifes,” says West Point spokesman Francis J. DeMaro Jr. Annapolis spokeswoman Deborah Goode has the same earnest message: “We support each other and our nation on the front lines of the global War on Terror.”
And they’re not the only ones. Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Notre Dame and...
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