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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...interesting to note that in these games Yale's fullback, O. D. Thompson, defeated both Harvard and Princeton by a goal from the field, executed while running at full speed, a feat unseen in the 40 years since. It was on this early team that Walter Camp, football's great personality, played halfback for Yale...
...abolished, it remains one of the most striking plays ever devised. Old fashions of the game still tarried on, and the long hair supposedly necessary for all players is one of the most picturesque. In these years the major games evolved almost to present dimensions, and great circling stands rose around the fields...
...mezzanine floor is found the Memorial Room, where the Harry Elkins Widener Collection is kept; book lovers may, upon application to the attendant, inspect the rarer volumes. Outside the Memorial Room are tablets holding the pictures of all the members of the University who lost their lives in the Great War. The Farnsworth Room, situated to the right of the main entrance, is a memorial room containing a splendid collection of standard authors. This room is intended only for pleasure reading and studying is not permitted. On the top floor there are a number of special, smaller libraries. The most...
...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...
After a week of hard scrimmages, with particular concentration on the fumbling displayed in the Worcester game, the Freshmen easily rolled up a 26 to 0 score against Groton. Neither team displayed any too great energy and there was still a tendency to fumble. Churchill was again the individual star, but in this game C. C. Buell and G. Owen ran him a close race for first honors...