Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next challenge went to Yale. Three half-hour periods were played, no time outs, fifteen players on a side, no padding worn. Harvard won, four goals and four touchdowns to nothing. Forty students went down to New Haven for the game...
...following year, only 11 men were on a side, and two 45-minute periods were played. Early in the second half Yale kicked a field goal for what proved to be the margin of victory, and spectators swarmed on the field and wasted 20 minutes of playing time carrying the Yalies around on their shoulders...
After football had ridden out the storm of protest against its brutality, Harvard coaches began to devise even more brutal plays. Yale was no laggard either; and the second half of The Game of 1892 saw the introduction of collegiate football to the "Flying Wedge." "Guards Back," "Tackles Back," the "Turtle Back," and other brawny plays soon followed. By 1894 the games were so gory that a two-year break in relations with Yale resulted...
...Dartmouth and RPI--mostly frat parties. Dixie fits in a frat, but it's out of place at a House dance." Clubs and fraternities certainly contribute to the more thriving Dixieland activity at Princeton, Dartmouth, and the local B.U. and Tufts. To land Harvard jobs groups must either play half-and-half dixie-and-dance, or go straight commercial. As one fellow said, "Sure, I'd like to blow every night, but I need the bread...
...three Harvard students in the Crimson opening-night band, and the Tulla's groups were almost completely from Harvard. These nights at the Coffee Grinder were open sessions where anyone who wanted could play. They used to split half the take, and each man made maybe a dollar a night. "The Crimson offer meant a lot more bread, so we decided to grab...