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...Games Cavileer recalls most luminously are the 1930 and 1931 renditions, when Barry Wood was the Crimson quarterback. He recounts the 1931 encounter at the Stadium: "Jack Crickard and Barry Wood had been practicing lateral passes on kickoff returns. So on the opening kickoff Wood lateraled to Crickard, who broke the run 77 yards and didn't score. Crickard was exhausted from running this distance but Wood used him on the next four successive plays. Everyone wondered why he did that. Anyway, Albie Booth kicked a field goal for Yale and we lost...
...Booth wreaked his revenge in 1931. The high-flying Crimson, sporting a 14-13 win over Army, went in the 1931 meeting undefeated and united. The game had barely started when Crickard of Harvard raced all the way to the Yale seven-yard line. As the Stadium crowd waited for the first Crimson touchdown, in the expected rout, the Bulldogs stiffened and held...
...Crimson had a superb line. They had big, skilled backs. But Yale apparently didn't know about this, for they set to work and stopped the Harvard offense cold. When Jack Crickard opened the Harvard offense by running to the Yale seven, they threw the Crimson back and took the ball...
...that was the year Yale won the famous 3-0 upset. Harvard's Barry Wood took the opening kickoff and slipped it backwards to Jack Crickard, who slipped it forward for ninety-five yards. Yale was about to be immolated according to prescription. But Harvard never scored, and Albie Booth's fourth-quarter fieldgoal was a one-stroke decline and fall of the Horween empire. During the next three years Harvard ruined Bates and New Hampshire regularly. Period...
When the season opened Casey had three heavy, steady players in Dean, Nevin, and Barrett and he had light, fast players like Locke and Pescosolido, but he had no one in between these two groups to take Crickard's place. Lane weighs 171 pounds, ten more than Locke. Moseley weighs 163 pounds, nearly ten pounds more than "Pesky." Then, too, there are Allan Sherman and Dick Waters from the Class of 1934 and Cedric Janien and John Adzigian from last year's Freshmen...