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...Yardlings dominated the play from the beginning of the game, when they marched deep into Bulldog territory on their first series of downs. Playing relentless offense and their best defense of the year, the hard-hitting freshmen kept the the ball locked in the Yale half of the field for the whole first half and most of the third and fourth quarters...
Harvard guarded its lead and, in the third quarter, stified a Bulldog drive which ended on the Crimson 13-yard line, but, in the fourth quarter, the fear became the reality...
After a muffed fourth-down punt by Harvard that gave the Bulldogs the ball on the Crimson 33, Yale moved the ball up to the 20 on a series of line plunges. Then, Bulldog quarterback Ed McCarthy dropped back to pass, or so it seemed. Slipping the ball to fullback Pete Cummings on a draw play, he gave him an alley a mile wide through the center of Harvard's line, which he used to good advantage, rambling the 20 yards for the score...
...Bulldog. During those perilous years, Smith won the esteem of such fractious military men as Britain's Montgomery, France's De Gaulle and the U.S.'s General Mark Clark. When Eisenhower was preparing to leave for London to direct the Normandy invasion, Winston Churchill (who dubbed Smith "the Bulldog") begged him to leave Smith in the Mediterranean theater as chief of staff. "But," recalled Ike in Crusade in Europe, "to this I could not agree . . . General Smith suited me so completely that I felt it would be unwise to break up the combination just as we were...
...Luck of Yale established two meet marks as he won three events. Luck took the 100 in 9.7 and the low hurdles in 23.2 for his records. His 14.2 in the high hurdles was disallowed because of a following wind. Bulldog Henry Hallas set a meet record with a toss of 224 ft., 4 in. in the javelin...