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...Harvard was on the verge of football greatness. The years intervening between the first contest with Dartmouth and the first loss to the Big Green saw the Crimson develop into one of the foremost gridiron powers in the country. Harvard-Dartmouth scores ran as follows: 29 to 0, 70 to 0, 74 to 0, 38 to 0, 43 to 0, 64 to 0, 16 to 0, 48 to 0, 16 to 0, 36 to 0, 22 to 0, 4 to 0, 13 to 0, 21 to 0, 11 to 0, 27 to 12, 16 to 6, and finally...
From 1904 to 1907, the varsity managed to emerge with a win, a loss, and two ties. In 1908, Percy Haughton took command of the Crimson's football fortunes, and Harvard embarked on an era of renewed gridiron prominence. That fall the Crimson edged the Green, 6 to 0, and the next two clashes saw the varsity's margin grow to nine, and then 18 points...
With almost 100 members marching in 1930 it was first possible to attempt the now familiar formations. With the spelling of H-A-R-V-A-R-D and V-E-R-I-T-A-S on the gridiron that year, the Band started its practice of weekly half-time shows. Among the first clarinetists in that group was G. Wright Briggs '31, who has directed the Band since 1953. Anderson, though an alumnus in the thirties, continued to work with the Band by directing and arranging...
...fall of Senior year was, as usual, more concerned publicly with the gridiron than with anything else. Another only-average football season was transformed into something rich and strange, as only a Yale game victory can do it. The frighteningly large role of football in the athletic budget began to be ominous as the H.A.A. funds were slashed again, leaving all but two minor sports out in the cold. The undergraduates, with their peculiarly myopic sense of justice, protested the withdrawal of support simultaneously with their-continued annoyance at the high prices of football tickets...
...English instructor who set off a controversy at Brown Tuesday by demanding that intercollegiate football be banned at the university will have a chance to debate the matter with the athletic director and the head gridiron coach...