Word: contests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fairy-book finish was a pleasant close for what had been--until the last minutes--a less than pleasant 1978 finale. If the end of the contest was Cinderella at the ball, the first half and the opening minutes of the second were Cinderella the pauper...
...being with, Harvard's enigmatic star center Brian Banks did not show up for his last contest at the IAB--because of the flu, coach Frank McLaughlin would say after the game--although other sources said he was not seriously...
Harvard's first-half game had more turnovers than the pastry window at Elsie's, and the man-to-man defense looked like Swiss cheese as Dartmouth made uncontested lay-ups in bunches and threatened to turn the contest into a feast. Only Cy Booker's offense kept the home squad in the game...
Mounds of correspondence concerning the origins of Harvard's intense rivalry with Yale can also be found, including a letter praising Forbes for succeeding in making the Yale game the last contest of the season. Said the alumnus correspondent, writing prophetically in 1898: "It not only insures our eleven being at its very best but also makes the Yale-Harvard game THE GAME of the season, a position the Yale-Princeton game has heretofore held." And it's been that way ever since...
...Harvard Library Archives should also enjoy putting together a display featuring rare tickets to the 1898 Harvard-Yale contest and valuable sets from other years. Equally scarce collector-item game programs (including the 1914 Harvard-Yale scorecard, produced in the shape of a football) also are abundant...