Word: classics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University marched down to Soldiers Field for the Yale classic en masse in that era. It also showed up for final practices on the Thursday before the big clash. Old CRIMSONS in 1909 report that over 1500 students cheered at scrimmage that year, and even more than that clogged newly-motorized Cambridge traffic on the night before the game...
Rivalries followed rapidly, and feelings between the Crimson and Blue got touchier and touchier. Relationships were broken off for three years just before the turn of the century, but the game was too good an excuse for a big weekend, and the classic was reinstated...
Fifty years ago chances are you would have left the field with a black eye; now you're satisfied with a popsicle. This is a classic with modernized, 1948-model color. Once it featured mustache cups and megaphones, raccoon coasts and pearl-handled umbrellas. Now it's got television, and Dixle Belle, and martinis--chilled--complete to the onion...
...sellout Stadium, along with the first television coverage and a 23-station radio hookup, will give this afternoon's Harvard-Yale game the biggest audience in the 65-year history of the annual classic...
Elsewhere, radio coverage will extend as far south as Maryland, with New York City, Rochester, Buffalo, Atlantic City, Baltimore, Providence, and Worcester chief among the cities whose stations will broadcast the classic...