Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard's first victory over Yale in the Stadium came in 1913, when Charlie Brickley kicked five field goals to defeat the Blue, 15 to 5, and completed his feat of scoring all Harvard's points on its way to the Big Three championship...
...triumph was Harvard's four the straight in the series, and the Crimson had outscored the Elis, 112 to 5 in those four years. Harvard and coach Percy Haughton reached the top of the Football world; a New York Times editorial declared, "Haughton is a great coach, perhaps the greatest in the annals of the American college game...
Wood won again in 1930. He threw two touchdown passes to end A. W. Huguley, as Harvard triumphed, 13 to 0. The strong Crimson line, paced by captain Ben Ticknor, bottled up Booth almost completely and, the CRIMSON reported, made him "look like an average back, flashy but unconvincing...
...Booth wreaked his revenge in 1931. The high-flying Crimson, sporting a 14-13 win over Army, went in the 1931 meeting undefeated and united. The game had barely started when Crickard of Harvard raced all the way to the Yale seven-yard line. As the Stadium crowd waited for the first Crimson touchdown, in the expected rout, the Bulldogs stiffened and held...
...still tied, 0 to 0. Booth completed a pass deep in Crimson territory, and seconds later drop-kicked the ball between the uprights to give Yale a 3-0 margin, which soon became the final score. After three years of struggles, Booths had finally seen his Elis defeat a Harvard eleven...