Word: fields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yale on Saturday made up for it all--the long, lean years, the months of gruelling afternoon work at Soldiers' Field, and the cynicism and the galling smiles that used to be occasioned by the mention of football at Harvard. It was a victory as satisfying as it was deserved, and it was enjoyed by those who sat on the bench the entire afternoon, despite the fact that they had worked just as hard as those who played. For they realized that the coaches owed a greater debt to football at Harvard, than to any individuals personally...
Twice a stray dog made its appearance on the field, once stopping the play. But everything seemed to have its redeeming features on Saturday, even the snow which might have been rain. This dog was a Dalmation, and what more aristocratic breed of dog could be desired to upset the Harvard-Yale classic...
Harvard won. On Saturday, November 20, 1937, Yale sent one of the greatest teams in its history on to the turf of Soldiers Field. That team was soundly and squarely beaten. It was beaten by eleven men and their replacements who on that day were eleven All-Americans. They were All-American football players incidentally. Primarily they are Harvard men and students, for the high esteem in which members of the team are held off the field gives proof of their "all-roundness," while as a group they boast as notable an academic record as any comparable body in College...
...Deanna Durbin should turn up at a Leverett House cocktail party about six years from now, she will probably get credit for cheering herself hoarse at Soldier's Field, but the real culprits will be the people who made her sing La Traviata way back in 1937 when she was only fourteen. In "100 Men and a Girl," now playing at the University, Deanna turns in a perfectly splendid performance in spite of the supporting cast of Adolphe Menjou, Eugene Pallette and Mischa Auer...
Other joyous spectators poured onto the field and held a snake dance, led by the hand, while red flares, held by cheerleaders, illuminated the scene. Cheering and laughing, the crowd swept ontor of the packed stadium, across the Lars Anderson Bridge, and into the Square. There they tied up traffic for 15 minutes as the band played several selections...