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Other surprises have marked this 84-years-old series--for instance the unprecedented 54-0 rout perpetrated by Yale in 1957. This element of the unexpected, always present in a game whose outcome rests traditionally on the uncertain factor of morale, has made the Harvard-Yale rivalry the greatest in college football...
...Game no longer decides the national championship, as it did for so many years. Nor does the Harvard-Yale contest now pit the country's greatest players against each other in head-to-head competition, as was the case for three fabulous seasons between 1929 and 1931. In those last glorious days of football at the two colleges Crimson quarterback Barry Wood and Eli halfback Albie Booth staged battles that were watched by every sport fan in the land. Still, when the ancient opponents take the field each year, a certain element exists which the trumped-up "big-time" clashes...
When the varsity finally broke through in 1890, it was an occasion of high drama. After so many years of failure, the Crimson met and defeated perhaps the greatest Yale team of all. The CRIMSON gloated, "The victory is not the result of one year's training alone; it is the consummation of the work begun here years ago... Three times of late we have thought that we had it mastered, and each time Yale has sent us back to Cambridge to study it some more. But we have stuck to the task with a dogged perseverance..." Crimson right guard...
...years later, the Crimson attained its greatest margin of victory, a 41 to 0 win over the Bulldogs. For Yale, it was the worst defeat in 43 years. Harte, an end, had the honor of scoring the first touchdown against the Elis in the Stadium with a 35-yard dash in the first period. Captain and fullback E. W. Mahan tallied four touchdowns to close out a brilliant career...
...Harvards face the Yales this Saturday in the 76th game of college football's greatest rivalry. For one of the few times in recent years, more is at stake than college pride...