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Noted names, famous formations, and sanguinary struggles fill the history of a 24-year series of gridiron contests between the University and the University of Pennsylvania. Twenty games were played between 1881 and 1905, and the Crimson hosts bore off the laurel and the palm in 13 encounters...
...reliefs of Haughton, will take place on November 19, the day of the Yale football game. One of the bronze figures will show the famous mentor in a familiar pose, with one knee on the ground and a megaphone poised to bark out some command on the gridiron; the other will depict him at his coaching specialty, punting...
...beginning of the current gridiron season the intersectional clash with Indiana was regarded as one of the soft spots on the Harvard schedule. But the showing the Hoosier's have made recently against such strong teams as Minnesota and Notre Dame has caused experts to take a different view toward today's contest, and the University eleven is conceded at best an even chance of victory...
...squad of Indiana players and coaches arrived in Cambridge early yesterday afternoon and went through a short work-out on the Stadium gridiron. The Western University will be represented today by a comparatively light, but scrappy and fast eleven. Coach Page's Hoosiers are noted for their stubborn defensive play, and their four man shift in the line on the offense. The fact that both Harvard and Indiana have crimson as their official color has led the invaders to abandon their traditional jersies in order to avoid confusion on the field today. Just what color they intend to wear...
...next year the Crimson tasted defeat for the third time in football history at the hands of a Dartmouth team. The score, 16 to 0, represented the worst beating a Harvard football team had taken since 1907. With the advent of the ensuing lean years on the Stadium gridiron Dartmouth continued to carry off football triumphs until last year's last minute comeback enabled the Crimson to interrupt the string of Big Green successes. By Time...