Word: gridiron
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...number of years ago the deciding features of the Eastern football scramble was the annual gridiron clash between Harvard and Yale Crimson and Blue marched triumphant over their early season opponents and came to Stadium or Bowl to battle out the question of the Eastern championship. But in late years with the rise on every side of powerful teams all this has been changed and the Harvard Yale tilt has become less and less of a titular affair...
Crimson will meet Blue on two soccer fields this morning as preliminaries to the annual gridiron classic in the Bowl Defeated by Princeton for the Big Three title the Yale and Harvard booters will fight out their private quarrel at 11 o'clock at New Haven...
...Haven, Conn., November 16--In preparation for a possible wet field for the Harvard game on Saturday, as was the case in 1923 and 1924 the Yale coaches sent the Varsity squad on to the gridiron this afternoon in a pouring rain, but danger of injuries was eliminated by omitting scrimmage. The men had a half hour's work in the pouring rain in a signal drill and then had work handing a wet ball. The Varsity line-up was Scott and Fishwick, ends; Richards and Benton, Tackies; Sturhahn and Webster, guards; Look, center: Bunnell quarterback; and Noble, Hoben...
With two Middle-western teams already scheduled in Purdue and Indians, it was felt that a large Eastern institution would most acceptably fill the vacant place on the University's list of gridiron engagements for next fall. The Pennsylvania battle rounds out one of the most difficult schedules ever under-taken by a Harvard team. Vermont, one of the stronger of the small college elevens, will open the schedule in the Stadium, to be followed in order by Purdue, Holy Cross, Dartmouth, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Brown and Yale...
...Harvard-Pennsylvania football series was among the earliest established rivalries on the gridiron. From 1881 until relations were broken off in 1905, 19 games had been played, of which 12 had been won by Harvard. In the early years of the series, strong teams from the University annually annihilated the Pennsylvania eleven, as is shown by the scores of 1887, 1888, and 1889, when the Philadelphia's fell by 42 to 0, 35 to 0, and 50 to 0. After Harvard had enjoyed a long winning streak, the series closed in 1905, the last two games being Pennsylvania victories...