harvard, punk'd

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Yale pranks Harvard in this new video from the 2004 Harvard-Yale game. Of course, this was replicating the famous Caltech Rose Bowl prank from 1961.

Students at MIT once stole a cannon from the Caltech campus and drove it across the country, posing as a moving company.

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Around here in downcounty Montgomery, people still talk about the giant cow that Richard Montgomery students painted on the roof chimney of snoburban rival Walter Johnson High School - which had been built next to a cow pasture - in the early 1960s. The cow remained until construction workers recently mistakenly painted over it. Senior prank, anyone?

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Comments

[dan reed]

At formerly-snoburban Blake High School we played a prank on neighboring Springbrook at Homecoming by planting a tree on their football field and encasing it in concrete. Or so I was told freshman year. Now that I think of it, this makes absolutely no sense.

[snoburbia]

Yeah - WJ kids still say someone put an actual cow on the roof, but I think that's apocryphal.

[Kathy J, Washington Gardener Mag]

During my years at Seneca Valley HS, senior pranks included a live pig in the library, stealing a Bob's Big Boy statue and placing at the front school sign, and releasing a sack of green-dyed lab mice in the cafeteria during lunch. I witnessed the latter two - sorry to say I missed seeing the live pig.
I never heard the WJ cow stories - I'm going to ask around.