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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opening kickoff was fumbled by Yale and a Harvard recovery led to a 40-yard march down the field and a short plunge by T.G. Upton '31 over the line for a touchdown. Goal was missed. After this, the Eli scrubs rallied and forced at will through the Crimson line. They did not begin to score, however, until the second half when Cruikshank and Whiting started plunging through for big gains. The former scored in five minutes and kicked goal for the lead. The only other Crimson score came toward the conclusion of the game when G.L. Lewis...
Score--Yale, 23; Harvard, 12. Touchdowns--Cruikshank, Lewis, Upton, Whiting 2. Field Goals--Ludium. Goals--Cruikshank. Referee--Blettsworthy. Umpire--Packletide. Linesmen--Bungg and Backwash. Time--12 minute quarters...
...universities, which were to form an alliance of friendly rivalry for so many years, was held at New Haven. The game was played under Rugby rules with a Rugby ball. Owing to the comparative newness of the Elis, the Crimson players completely out-passed their opponents, winning by our field goals and four touchdowns to nothing. In these days before the adoption of numerical scoring, four touchdowns counted as one goal, which accounts for the Yale victory in 1876. The Yale men wore dark trousers, blue shirts, and wellow caps. Harvard the usual Crimson shirts and stockings with knee breeches...
...first time governed by rules, tripping, striking, hacking, lurking or butting thereafter prohibited. The players were driven off the Common by an order of the City Fathers on petition of a few unsympathetic citizens of Cambridge, in May, 1873, at which time the game was transferred to Holmes Field, a rough, uneven place, at that time unused for anything. Goal posts were ereected at a cost...
...season of 1874 was destined to leave a deep impression upon American football, for during this year occurred the first Harvard-McGill game, the first contest of intercollegiate Rugby played in this country and the contest which led directly to the present intercollegiate game. The teams met on Jarvis Field, May 14, eleven men participating on each side. Following this year, often termed the most "momentous" of football history, Harvard met on the playing field with McGill and other Canadian universities for a number of years, previous to the first engagement with Yale at the beginning of the last quarter...