Word: bowls
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...delegation representing 100 former students of Professor Frank W. Taussig '79, of the Economics Department, presented him with a beautiful silver bowl on Saturday as a token of their esteem and affection. The bowl is a replica of one made by Paul Revere in the 18th century and now in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. As Professor Taussig leaves shortly to take up his work with the Federal Tariff Board at Washington, his former students took this occasion to tender him a mark of their gratitude and loyalty...
...receipts, however, are not profit. The erection of the 16,000 temporary seats around the top of the Bowl and around the side-lines cost the Association nearly $14,000. Another expense was the liberal pay given the 1,500 men employed to handle the crowd. There were 800 ushers, 116 ticket-takers and inspectors, 100 program sellers, 120 guides, 160 automobile and fence guards, 35 traffic men 55 messengers, 45 head ushers and guards; policemen and other groups...
...have both the great football contests on the same day was embarrassing, but although it was impossible to be at the Brush Stadium in this city and the Yale Bowl at New Haven at the same time, there was no complaint of diminished attendance at either. The crowds were enormous, and both games were inspiring, Yale won. After four successive and deplorable defeats, with not even a touchdown to brag about, Yale beat the confident Harvard team by a score of 6 to 3, upset all the betting calculations, and restored one of the universities' glories. Harvard can stand...
Down in the Yale Bowl this afternoon Captain Dadmun and his men will struggle to wrest victory from the sullen bulldog, while in the stands the cohorts of the Crimson will cheer their efforts. At home in Cambridge supporters no less loyal will fervently beseech the gods for a Harvard victory. The sun has set in vivid crimson now for four successive years. May it be long before the cold blue shadows obscure our vision of victory...
...years ago the huge concrete Bowl at New Haven, destined to be the mausoleum of Yale's brightest hopes, was appropriately christened with a Harvard victory. On Saturday, Harvard a second time faces Yale on the same field. Four successive victories have inspired an unshakable confidence in the ability of the Harvard team to win, and there only remains the danger that this feeling will develop into one of overconfidence, which is the first and longest step on the road to defeat. An overconfident cheering section is the worst enemy of its own team. Harvard is determined...