character. >> underdog princeton. >> college sports grew wildly popular with the public. >> yale squared off against harvard in the final game of the season. >> spawning powerful athletic departments and loyal alumni. >> i think if you gave the average college president at these kinds of colleges a few drinks and said, do you want to dial this down? they'd say yes, but they'd say the alumni, hear from them immediately, and they'd put up a big fuss. >> college presidents like to talk about maring to tt tytoty, fact, they kept key elements of the old aristocracy in place like athletics and legacies. >> yale was found more than two centuries ago by ten congregational clergymen. >> when one college president tried to take on legacies, all