Word: blue
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the turn of the century came hope that the Yale series of victories was at an end, for a decisive 22 to 0 Harvard win in 1901 was made by an aggregation strong in every department of the game. Only once between then and 1913, however, were the Blue cohorts again halted, in 1908, when Harvard just succeeded in eking out a 4 to 0 victory. This win came at the beginning of Haughton's coaching regime, and by one move of his during the tilt, he stamped himself as a great coach. The game had been going...
...then in 1916 Harvard suffered its first defeat at the hands of the Blue since 1909. The score was 6 to 3. Harvard took the lead early in the game with a goal from the field. With the second period well under way Yale had the ball when one of the Blue backs fumbled in going through the line. It just eluded some of the Harvard backs, was recovered by Yale on the Crimson's 13 yard line, and then the Blue was just able to get across the goal for a touchdown. This was Houghton's farewell game...
Then followed two consecutive victories for the Eli, but the 1924 tilt, though taken finally by the Blue is remembered chiefly by Harvard adherents by the strategical coup carried through by the Harvard coaching corps. It was this year that E.L. Gehrke '24, a player who had proved himself in previous years a formidable opponent to the Blue, had been for some time reported unable to play in the final clash with Yale...
Then came the next season the great moral victory of the Crimson team. With M.A. Cheek '26 playing stellar football an underdog Harvard eleven held the Blue cohorts to a 0 to 0 tie, in weather the most unfavorable. The 1926 fray in the Bowl is remembered by undergraduates for the Harvard touchdown brought about by a pass, Henry Chauncey '27 to W.G. Saltonstall '28, which gave the Crimson rooters a moment of hope. The game ended, however, with Yale in the lead, 12 to 7. Last year's tilt in the Stadium brought out the steady power the Blue...
...superior might of the Harvard line, along with the Crimson's possession of a stronger kicking game and a potentially powerful running attack, should combine with Yale weaknesses to give us our first triumph over the Blue since...