Word: blue
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Playing under fine weather conditions at New Haven yesterday afternoon, the Eli and Crimson second football teams fought out a ragged line-plunging duel that ended 23 to 12 in favor of the Blue contingent...
This afternoon between the steeply banked walls of the Union Living Room there will occur a spectacle to which only those lucky enough to hold the little blue pasteboard will gain admittance. Always a tense and thrilling affair, the gathering in the Union promises this year to linger long in the memories of those attending. But from the very privilege which is extended to the audience proceeds a peril. Thoughtful only of their own comfort the undergraduates who are expected to fill the living room this afternoon may overlook the fact that they owe a whole hearted support...
...football games, though perhaps not the most thrilling participated in by Harvard teams of the last 50 years, is of continued interest because of the sustained and uninterrupted enthusiasm it has engendered and preserved in the vast undergraduate and graduate Harvard body. For 46 years the Crimson and the Blue have met on the gridiron; for 46 years have both teams been supported by thousands of Harvard and Yale adherents...
...Elis, the Crimson players completely out-passed their opponents, winning by our field goals and four touchdowns to nothing. In these days before the adoption of numerical scoring, four touchdowns counted as one goal, which accounts for the Yale victory in 1876. The Yale men wore dark trousers, blue shirts, and wellow caps. Harvard the usual Crimson shirts and stockings with knee breeches. W.A. Whiting '77, captain of the Harvard fifteen--there were fifteen on each side--unable to play because of an injury, acted as umpire for Harvard...
...knee breeches that once had been white. There were no pads or head gears or similar protection, for mass play had not been invented. A few of the Harvard men went bareheaded while others wore crimson football caps of soft wool without visors; the Yale team wore long blue caps knit like a stocking with a blue tassel...