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Excavation for the $800,000 Bowl began in 1913 and was completed in time for the Harvard-Yale game of 1914. Architect Charles A. Ferry in a dedication speech termed it "the perfect stadium." But according to the Boston Globe, "Yale did the dedicating and Harvard did the playing (November 21, 1914) when the Crimson dealt the Blue a 36 to 0 trouncing...
...playing field itself is 27 feet below ground level and the top tier of the stadium is 26 feet above grounds. To prevent the field from turning into a lake, architect Ferry provided the Bowl with an extensive drainage system. He designed the Bowl so that it slants west to east, the western side being 11 feet higher that the eastern. Of the Bowl's thirty drains in the portals leading towards the field some slant away with the slant of the ground, but those that slant into the Bowl are drained in to water pipes...
Although the Bowl seats 74,786, it has not had a crowd of more than 66,000 in recent years. The last sell-out was in 1946, but even then, the Bowl's 18 miles of seats were not filled because many seats brought under the general admission plan were not actually used. The crowd for that Harvard Yale game was estimated...
Yale officials are proud of their saucer-bowl and they make sure it is well protected. A week before every Harvard-Yale game large details of policemen are assigned to patrol inside and outside the Bowl. Powerful floodlights skim the field to watch for pranksters...
These officials have due cause for alarm, too. The big Bowl has been the victim of several paint and fire attacks. Several years ago a group of undergraduates painted a crimson "H" in the center of the field; fast work by a team of Yale grass-cutters had the "H" removed by game time. Last year some Princetonions managed to elude the guards and searchlights to burn a large "P" on the field. This time the brand remained throughout the game, and Yale doubled the Bowl's police guard. But the most extensive damage was done before the Hill-house...