Word: greened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Careful perusal of dispatches will prove, however, that the Big Green deserves at least a part of the two touchdown advantage New York bookmakers are granting them. A great deal of the mimeographed blurb distributed to the press would have you believe that they will be playing without benefit of backfield, but a second look will show that Johnny Clayton, Hal Fitkin, Herb Caroy, and Bill Dey are all ready and waiting...
Quarterback Clayton is a dependable ball-handler and an excellent passer, and has had a good deal to do with the Big Green's two victories this year. Fitkin, it must be admitted, had been out of action with mononucleosis for two weeks, and may not be up to full speed, but be certainly is in good enough shape to cause trouble around the ends...
Much has been made of the fact that the Big Green deprived of the entire side of its line through graduation and other calamities. This may be so, but the fact remains that they still sport a left end Dave Beeman, as six foot, five inch, 205-pound end who has been a letterman for two years; Ted Eberle, a tackly who filled in behind Johnny Jenkins last year; and Jim Mclville, another 205 pound, two letter man, at guard...
Ever since the first contest in 1882--except for a ten-year gap from 1912 to 1922 and a four-year wartime halt--Big Green partisans have ben storming annually to Harvard, bringing with them plans for gigantic parties, hoaxes, and raids. and more often than not the Crimson, in turn, strikes back...
...plans included bombing the Yard with toilet paper, kidnapping two or three Lampoon "fruits," and dressing an entire bogus Crimson football team which was to have taken the field just as the Band ended its half-time act, and dyeing the Charles River green...