Word: games
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...some time previous to the contest the team was drilled by night on Jarvis Field. Although this game represented the crudest kind of football compared with the game as we know it today, yet it aroused great enthusiasm over the new Rugby rules in the various colleges, and it was as a result of this feeling that the Harvard-Yale series began in 1875. A contemporary Harvard publication in speaking of the game says...
...Football will be a popular game here in the future. The Rugby game is in much better favor than the somewhat sloppy game now played by our men." In this match the Harvard men experienced considerable difficulty with the spherical-shaped ball to which they were unaccustomed, but in spite of this embarrassment, combined with McGill's broader experience, Harvard managed to hold the Canadians gainless by superior tackling and general defensive work...
...Grant '74, who played one of the halfback positions. Little attention was paid this contest by the public, mention of it being found in only one Boston paper, and that confined to a scant 10 lines. In spite of the lack of general interest which it aroused, this game on May 15, 1874, marked the beginning of a football regime which will reach its highest point before the throng of spectators in the Stadium today...
...being within the outline of the "H", while the other men in the cheering section will form the background by waving crimson handkerchiefs. These handkerchiefs are officially on sale at Brine's and every person whose ticket is marked "red handkerchief" should supply himself with one before the game...
...pretty good time in your college the last time I was there because they took me in the Harvard Baboon office which is a newspaper office and afterward they tried to get me shikker. But the prices is too high now so I suppose nobody gets shikker at the game any more even the old collegers...