Word: crimsoned
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Although the Crimson fought back mightily, the Praying Colonels held fast and preserved their triumph. Newspapers all over the country were quick to proclaim Centre's win as an upset. As years passed, the story of coach Charlie Moran's little country boys who prayed in the locker room before going out onto the field spread, and the 1921 game became a football legend...
Still, the fact remains: Centre's win was not a shocking reversal of form. Although the Praying Colonels had dropped a 31-14 decision to the Crimson a year earlier, they had remedied their main defect--a porous line. In 1921, Centre had already defeated Clemson, 14 to 7, V.P.I., 14 to 0, St. Xavier, 28 to 6, and Transylvania, by the whopping margin...
Those close to Harvard football in 1921 were not ignorant of the Crimson's deficiencies. An open letter from R. B. Wigglesworth, member of the Football Advisory Committee, published in the CRIMSON after the Centre contest said, "Harvard's defeat Saturday at the hands of Centre College demonstrates conclusively the critical condition of the University eleven...
rect. The Crimson managed only a field goal in losing to a twice-beaten Princeton eleven, 10 to 3. It was the first Tiger victory over a Harvard eleven in ten years. One week later, a nonchalant varsity, with seven first-string players watching Yale play in New Haven, barely edged a powerless Brown squad...
Only a superlative, emotion-packed effort by the entire team allowed the Crimson to eke out a 10-3 triumph over Yale in the season's final game. The battered and exhausted Crimson was relieved to see one of its roughest campaigns draw to a close...