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YALE FIELD, NEW HAVEN, Nov. 24--Harvard met Yale this afternoon on Yale Field in the annual gridiron contest between the Crimson and the Blue. Fully an hour before the time set for the game, the crowd of 36,000 people had begun to arrived on the field. The weather was bracing and the field itself in excellent condition, although a stiff west wind was blowing directly, acrose it. The sky was fell of clouds interspersed with chinks of blue through which the sun shone at intervals...
...GRIDIRON KING...
...football song committee, at a meeting last night, decided that "The Gridiron King" should be declared winner of the competition. This song was written and composed by R. K. Fletcher '08, the composer of "On Soldiers Field." "Harvard's Victory," which came a very close second, and which will be sung at New Haven, was composed by P. H. Daggett '07, with words written by J. P. Soule...
...songs, "Harvard's Victory" and "The Gridiron King," which the football songs committee has decided to use at the Yale game, will be given a final trial, and the song meeting with the most approval at this mass meeting will be declared the winner of the competition. The familiar old football songs will also be sung. The student band, which will accompany the team to New Haven, will play, and long and short cheers will be practiced. By rule of the Governing Board of the Union no ladies will be allowed to be present...
...Union tomorrow evening at 7.30 o'clock. J. D. White '07 will preside and lead the cheering. The speakers have not as yet been fully decided upon, but will be announced tomorrow. The football song committee has concluded that both the songs, "Harvard's Victory" and "The Gridiron King," will be sung at the Yale game. The song, however, meeting with the most approval at this mass meeting will be declared winner, of the competition. By rule of the governing board, no ladies will be allowed to be present at the meeting...