Word: crowds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first football game between Harvard and Yale was played at Hamilton Park, New Haven, on November 13, 1875, and was won by Harvard by four goals to none. About 150 Harvard students journeyed from Cambridge to witness the contest, and were commented on as "the biggest crowd from Boston ever seen in New Haven." Mr. Parks H. Davis in his book on football gives a very interesting account of the game, of which a few excerpts are printed below...
...CRIMSON extra, containing a play-by-play account of the football game together with the results of the intercollegiate cross-country meet, will be on sale by the time the returning crowd reaches Harvard Square after the game...
...CRIMSON Extra containing a play-by-play account of the football game together with the results of the intercollegiate cross-country meet, will be on sale by the time the returning crowd reaches the Anderson Bridge after the game on Saturday...
Princeton, N. J., Nov. 5, 1915.--Practice for the Harvard game ended today with a dummy scrimmage and signal drill before a big crowd of cheering undergraduates. Driggs got off several good punts and Tibbott drop-kicked successfully from the forty and forty-five yard lines. The team also practised kick-offs and running back kicks. All the men are in good shape except Halsey, and Parisette, who was all-interscholastic guard in 1913 but ineligible last year, will start in his place...
There is no doubt in anyone's mind that when the football team goes to Princeton it will put up a good game. It will fight hard. But its fight will be harder, its desire to win keener, if it has a crowd of supporters in the stands. Then victory will be sweeter, and defeat more bitter--consequently less likely...