Word: boston
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...first football game between Harvard and Yale was played at Hamilton Park, New Haven, on November 13, 1875, and was won by Harvard by four goals to none. About 150 Harvard students journeyed from Cambridge to witness the contest, and were commented on as "the biggest crowd from Boston ever seen in New Haven." Mr. Parke H. Davis in his book on football gives account of the game, from which a few excerpts are printed here...
...captain of this pioneer team was Henry R. Grant '74, who played one of the halfback positions. Little attention was paid this contest by the public, mention of it being found in only one Boston paper, and that confined to a scant 10 lines. In spite of the lack of general interest which it aroused, this game on May 15, 1874, marked the beginning of a football regime which will reach its highest point before the throng of spectators in the Stadium today...
Morris is, in ordinary life, a hustling and successful broker on the Boston Curb Exchange, and in addition has been a member of the State Legislature, representing old Ward 15 in 1915 and 1916, and in 1917-1918 serving in the Massachusetts Senate representing new Wards 9, 10, 11. Upon being asked by a CRIMSON reporter the origin of his scoring system and how he had become interested in the work, he replied...
...Boston College disaster seemed to have been a good lesson for the Yale eleven. Up to the Princeton game, they appeared to have developed a well-drilled, hard-hitting, aggressive machine...
...planned to hold services of this kind about once a month, to which the students and members of the faculties, of the high schools, academies, boarding schools, and colleges in and about Boston are cordially invited to attend