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When the University of Oregon plays its first Eastern grid contest in Fenway Park against Boston University today, those who remember the good old days of Crimson football will revive memories of Harvard's 7 to 6 victory over Oregon on New Year's Day, 1920, in the College's one and only Rose Bowl appearance...
Harvard's rise to national grid fame was not so sudden as Centre and the decline from the ranks of the mighty has been more gradual. Despite what some of the nation's more snide press scribes may write, the Crimson also has not sunken to the obscurity of Centre College. Eastern football in general has skidded into amateurim and the Crimson has gone along with the trend--though most Harvard fans might wish that the Crimson were not holding up the bottom of the de-emphasized league...
There was more furor raised over the loss to Centre than several losing seasons have caused in recent Crimson grid history. Contrary to current myth, the Centre eleven was not a bunch of small college hicks from Kentucky. The Colonels had walloped national champion West Virginia the previous year and prior to the 1921 Harvard contest had beaten powerhouse Crimson and run several lesser lights into the ground. The day of the game, in fact, the CRIMSON predicted a "battle royal" and 43,000 fans didn't jam the Stadium to see a rout. They didn...
...have the grid machine...
...Blues have always been obsessed with a maudlin nostalgia for Yale, Mother of Men and Big-Time football. Perhaps for their vociferous support of Eli grid teams in Yale's present fleeting hour of amateurism, the Blues have been rewarded by the publication of a new anthology of Yale football...