Word: crimsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lapse lapse followed, until 1922, when the Crimson took up where it had stopped with a 12-3 victory over the Big Green. Dartmouth came back to win the next three encounters, achieving a decisive 32-9 triumph in 1925. The two teams split the next six games...
...more sensational contests in this long series was the 50th anniversary meeting in 1932. A fired-up Big Green squad played the Crimson to a standstill for most of the game. Harvard's winning break came on the second-half kickoff, when Carl Pescosolido produced a 93-yard runback to provide the decisive tally in a 10-7 victory. As the Crimson put it, "Outrushed, outpassed, and outplayed by the Indians, the Harvard Varsity football team left the Stadium with a whole scalp only by providential intervention...
After a tie in 1933, the Crimson dropped seven straight games to the Indians, who were beginning to take their football more seriously. In 1941 and 1942, the rivals exchanged wins, before the war years intervened...
...Harvard-Dartmouth game was played in Hanover for the first time in 62 years, with the Crimson winning, 21 to 7. Five consecutive Green victories ensued, as Harvard football sank to its lowest ebb. Then the Crimson countered with two triumphs in a row, by scores of 26 to 19 and 20 to 14, before the Indians reversed the trend by scoring...
...third time in 73 seasons, the Crimson met Dartmouth in Hanover in 1955. Although the Crimson was strongly favored over the winless Indian eleven, the Green broke a string of 71 years without a home victory over Harvard with a stunning 14-9 upset. One of the wildest weekends in Dartmouth history resulted...