Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Game no longer decides the national championship, as it did for so many years. Nor does the Harvard-Yale contest now pit the country's greatest players against each other in head-to-head competition, as was the case for three fabulous seasons between 1929 and 1931. In those last glorious days of football at the two colleges Crimson quarterback Barry Wood and Eli halfback Albie Booth staged battles that were watched by every sport fan in the land. Still, when the ancient opponents take the field each year, a certain element exists which the trumped-up "big-time" clashes...
Yale ran its victory skein to 11 before the Crimson finally notched its second win. Harvard's low point of the 11 years, and of the entire series until the debacle of 1957, was reached in 1884, when the Elis triumphed, 48 to 0 or 52 to 0, depending on which paper you read. The CRIMSON had this to say about the disputed score: "... and the ball was passed to Bayne, who slipped through. Time was called ere he could reach the line. Some papers gave this a touchdown, but Mr. Looks, the referee, said that, both time was called...
...CRIMSON also noted, "Spectators to the number of 2,000 were gathered on Yale's new athletic grounds on witness the match. Among them were about thirty Harvard men, who went down from Cambridge, and several others, graduates, who come on with ladies from New York, Boston, and elsewhere." They knew they would see a one sided contest, since earlier the same year, Yale had opened its series with Dartmouth handing the Big Green a 113-0 licking...
...years ago... Three times of late we have thought that we had it mastered, and each time Yale has sent us back to Cambridge to study it some more. But we have stuck to the task with a dogged perseverance..." Crimson right guard P. Trafford established himself as a Harvard immortal by outplaying the man many still consider football's greatest lineman--Pudge Heffelfinger, an all-time all-American...
After the 1894 game, won by Yale, 12 to 4, the series was suspended for two years as a result of the ill will created by the fray. The CRIMSON charged, "Harvard clearly outplayed her opponent at every point; in team work, in punting and drop-kicking, and, in many cases, in individual playing. Yet Yale, by a combination of good luck, and questionable decisions of the officials of the game, not only defeated Harvard, but had some points to spare..." The contest was marked by a rash of injuries, mostly to Harvard men. Indignation was widespread for a long...