Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...traditional Harvard-Yale grid battle is annually debunked on every side. There isn't a player on either team who has the slightest claim to AH-America honors; neither squad has the faintest claim in high ranking among the football powers of the nation...
There is one thing that they know for a fact. Harvard and Yale always give their best 60 minutes of bruising football. No quarter is given or asked. Occasionally there are years when the records of both elevens stand up for themselves, but this year the game rides on just as proudly on tradition alone...
Sixty-four years ago, in 1875, fifteen good Harvard men and true and one substitute invaded New Haven and licked the handle-bar moustaches off the home team in the first Harvard-Yale football game in history. The gruelling contest lasted an hour and a half...
...Harvard Rules Different...
...That Harvard drubbed Yale to the tune of our goals and four touchdowns to nothing may be partially explained by the rules difficulties. Football as it was played at Cambridge and football as it was played at New Haven were as unlike as marbles and ping-pong. For years the Yales and the Harvards couldn't get together...