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...early days of Harvard-Dartmouth football were consistently disastrous to the representatives of the Big Green. From 1884, when the first gridiron contest between the two colleges was held on Soldiers Field to the beginning of the present century the elevens which issued forth annually from the New Hampshire hills to tackle the Crimson of Cambridge returned home empty handed...
...present Harvard Stadium was completed and the Crimson athletic officials decided that a Dartmouth football game would be a fitting baptism for the new arena. The Big Green accordingly made its annual trip to Cambridge, dedicated the new Stadium, and incidentally carried off its first gridiron triumph over a Harvard team by an 11 to 0 score. The Dartmouth team in this encounter was described as unusually heavy, the line averaging 220 pounds to the man from tackle to tackle. One of the conspicuous performers for the Crimson on that occasion was John Parkinson '05, who played center and whose...
...CRIMSON has a long and honorable record on the diamond. Those who so desire may see that record framed on CRIMSON walls; it has been suggested that the games themselves have been framed. Now for the first time in history it engages in a gridiron struggle with another collegiate journal as its opponent. With no mountains on which to practice for training, without even a New Hampshire hill, the CRIMSON, intends to defend its athletic honor. Its locate has been termed effects. The Hanover press representatives undoubtedly are superior in the arts of the boy scout and campfire girl. Nevertheless...
...following article describing the Dartmouth campus as it appears shortly before the annual exodus to Cambridge for the Harvard-Dartmouth gridiron clash was written for the Crimson by G. H. Robinson, Dartmouth 1926, at present a student in the Harvard Business School...
...Yale--that "now they are nothing more than institutions of learning"--may be accepted not as a graceful and suave bow to two great universities but as an evidence of bovine condolence. Each having lost a football game Harvard and Yale are out of the calcium until the 1928 gridiron season. They may remain huddled in their eastern reaches while the Big Ten fights its giant's battle. Life will go on life is like that--but Harvard and Yale are through...