Word: bowling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think about a war, or the fact that Harvard was playing its most honored and blasphemed rival for the last time for the duration. Back in those days, it was easy. You just played football, and Adolf Hitler was busy hanging paper. And 60,000 people packed Yale Bowl, hysterical in their partisanship...
That is why this year's Harvard-Yale classic may not seem, to the sparse gathering at the Bowl tomorrow, as spectacular or all-important an event as it has in the past. Whether Howie Odell, one-time pupil of Dick Harlow, can teach his former mentor a few tricks or not pales before the thought of what will be done by these same Crimson and Eli athletes a few months hence...
...with the student who does care about football, in general, and who does not think it should be abandoned that this article is concerned. It is to the person who will be either playing the gam in the Yale Bowl on Saturday or who will be watching his friends play, that...
...gloat over in the long winter months. But optimism is running high in Eli town this week. It's a husky, healthy, hard-hitting Bulldog, with even more than the usual esprit de corps, that is hard at work concecting a warm Blue punch with which to fill the Bowl this Saturday...
There won't be anybody filling the mammoth shoes of Clint Frank and Larry Kelley when the product of Odell's first year effort trots into the Bowl. Individual stars are not an essential ingredient in the Odell formula, nor is any November circus stuff to be expected from this Eli mentor who is an avowed fundamentalist...