Word: bowl
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...game in 1914 was the first Harvard-Yale game in the Yale Bowl, and the Crimson eleven came off with the honors, 36 to 0. Late in this tilt, it is stated, the onlookers were treated to the greatest exhibition of generalship ever seen on a football field. It was Harvard's ball within drop-kicking distance and Captain C.E. Brickley '15, injured and on the bench, was sent into the fray apparently to try for a goal from the field and the satisfaction of scoring against Yale in the year of his captaincy. Using Brickley as a decoy...
Although a brilliantly colored folder attests the fact that many special trains will bear supporters of the Crimson to within inconvenient walking distance from the Bowl, the prospective passengers are concealed by the bustle of more picturesque travellers. Dull indeed are the ears that have not registered the consternation attendant on the phrase "he isn't sure he can get the car". In fact the less conscientious eavesdropper has found that genuine football pilgrims are characterized by an almost universal lack of assurance...
While there is nothing indicating that this lineup is definitely that which will face the Eli in the Bowl tomorrow afternoon, there is no cause to believe that Coach Horween is contemplating any shifts. These often have proven themselves to be the strongest and most dependable combination all season, and the fact that they are all in condition and ready to meet the Blue is the best indication that the Crimson will put on the field one of the strongest elevens in a good many years...
...clock this morning, 81 players, coaches, managers, doctors, rubbers, and attaches to the squad will entrain at the Back Bay station for New Haven. Early in the afternoon. Coach Horween will send the Crimson squad through a brief workout in the Bowl. Immediately afterward, they will journey to Wallingford, spending the night at the Choate School, whence they will leave for the Bowl again shortly before noon tomorrow...
Phases of contemporary America will be brought in a moving show to the great Forum that is the Yale Bowl tomorrow. What place the market fairs of Lyons yesterday filled or the medieval fields of the cloth of gold, the growth of the football stadia more adequately supplies for a nation of stockholders. Furs, fine fabrics, fair women, the light and shadow of autumn, the iridescent color minglings of eighty seated thousands form the tableau at New Haven. It appears new and of certain splendor. Yet the first roar that greets the raising of the grate for the two opposing...