re: Harvard- Yale College Gameday will be there

here is an interesting factoid

In the early 1900s when schools were looking for ways to make football a safer sport a proposal by Walter Camp was made to widen the playing field by 40 feet. However, due to Harvard being a major power at the time and b/c their stadium was built with reinforced concrete the idea was nixed b/c of how much it would have cost them to redo it. So instead the forward pass was adopted. So one could reasonably say we have the current football field dimensions b/c of Harvard Stadium.