Word: crimsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great drought began with a 21-21 tie. In fact, two dry spells marked their origins that fall. On the same day that Brown quarterback Pete Kohut engineered the Bruins to a late-game touchdown that tied the score and took away the Crimson's last taste of victory, the Department of Athletics began its campaign to prevent "obvious violations" of its new no-liquor...
...meeting of Harvard and Brown in football. In many ways it was the most satisfactory game of the season, not because Harvard made her this year's record in number of points won, but because the eleven was given an excellent test of its defensive work." So said the CRIMSON on Oct. 30, 1893, after the varsity had crushed the Bruins, 58 to 0, in the series inaugural...
Harvard proceeded to run off 20 straight victories before Brown managed a tie in 1914. The Crimson pushed its streak to 23 Brown games without a loss in 1915, but the next fall the Bruins finally came through with a win, by the score...
Those 23 years covered some of the finest moments of Harvard football, during the periods when the Crimson led the way in college competition. In 1894, the varsity whipped Brown twice, 18 to 4 and 18 to 0. For the next six seasons, the Crimson thrashed Brown steadily, but without piling up point totals as impressive...
Finally, in 1901, the varsity cut loose with an overwhelming 48-0 trouncing of the hapless Bruins. However, the game was not as satisfactory as the score makes it seem. As the CRIMSON of Nov. 4, 1901, put it, "Harvard defeated Brown on Saturday by a score of 48 to 0, in an uninteresting and poorly played game. Harvard was not once held for downs, while Brown was able to gain a first down only once...