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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 1772519, member: 780"]
We don't have one right now.

Even though we have played BC and Pitt for many decades. Neither has ever achieved that status because the games were not all that meaningful nor eventful.

The RU people --- because they have never had one, I guess --- seem to feel that everyone has or needs a "rival". This shows a lack of understanding of what rivalries are and how they are formed.

It's the same approach they tried to use with SU and now with PSU (or Maryland) or whoever. Pick a school you want to be associated and than try to drum up a rivalry by being insulting on forums on the Internet. That's not the way it works.

Some RU people used tried to pretend Princeton was a rival. I guess they were if it were possible to have completely one-sided Rivalry. The Princeton people for some strange reason thought their rivals were Harvard and Yale and to a lesser degree, Penn.

Here's my acid test for a real rivalry. If you go 8-3 in football in a season an one of those losses is to your rival, the season is not really seen as a success. And if you go 3-8 and one of the wins is against you rival, than that season is seen as something of a success.
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