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...getting trite to speak of Harvard's football coach as "cologist" or "ornithologist" Harlow, but John Kieran has one of the keys to Crimson gridiron success every time he uses that stock description. Dick studies football the way he studies his pet flora and fauna, and has achieved recognition as one of the nation's top experts in both fields. One of his coaching assistants put it this way: "When Dick decides he wants to know about something, he really studies it. Two years ago he got interested in ferns and now he's crossing up the professors...
Joining in their traditional pre-game performance, the Harvard and Yale Glee Clubs will give their annual concert in New Haven on the eve of the Crimson Eli gridiron clash...
...generally muddled and confused gridiron situation detracts from the value of a comparison of the Crimson and Eli records against mutual rivals, but, for whatever it may indicate: Yale played a better (and a winning) game against Dartmouth and, on the other hand, Harvard was better against Penn. Both were a touchdown ahead of Princeton, but the Blue was superior against Brown, which might be explained by Margarita's inability to play against-Yale...
...long-ago fall of 1874, when an editorial in the "Magenta," the original CRIMSON, challenged reticent Yale footballers to a battle on the gridiron, it was urged that "Yale may refuse on the score that Harvard has already become well acquainted with the game. Very true, but Yale can practise and learn it during the fall. It is a game very simple to learn, requiring, at the utmost, two week's practice for a club to be able to play it skillfully...
Harvard and Boston College finally met on the gridiron with the Crimson, ably represented by the Winthrop House football team, triumphing 6 to 0 over an intramural team from B. C. yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field...