Heraldry at "The Game"

 
Joseph McMillan
 
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Joseph McMillan
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20 November 2010 19:57
 

While surfing various college football games today, I noticed that Harvard’s team displayed the university’s arms on its jerseys this year:

http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Football_Gordon_605.jpg

 

Perhaps it’s no coincidence that the Crimson upset their archrivals from Yale 28-21 in what partisans of the two universities call "The Game" (not to be confused with "The Big Game" between Stanford and Cal-Berkeley, also played today, sans heraldry).

 
Mark Olivo
 
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21 November 2010 02:58
 

Did you notice that on his jersey there is also a shield-shaped patch for "the game" itself?  Perhaps it’s the world’s only armigerous football game.

 
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laneryd
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21 November 2010 06:43
 

I like heraldry in sport-games. It is customary in ice-hockey, where our national team is called THREE CROWNS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_men’s_national_ice_hockey_team

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/Schweden-lettland.jpg

 
Jeremy Keith Hammond
 
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23 April 2011 22:27
 

I’m a big fan of rugby, myself - a sport that doesn’t hesitate to show off some heraldic flair.

http://www-student.lboro.ac.uk/~lstcm/bathball.jpg

 

The jerseys themselves are heraldic in nature:

 

http://www.rwcshop.com/productimages/large/6/44_602_430.jpg