Word: harvards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Possibly the best modern Yale team ever to take the field humiliated the varsity, 42 to 14 in 1956. The Bulldogs became Ivy champions, and that season scored 40 points against Penn, 42 against Princeton, and 42 aginst Harvard in their last three games. The unstoppable backfield of Dean Loucks, Dennis McGill, Al Ward, and Steve Ackerman ran wild over a Crimson defense that did well to hold the final count below...
...long, gained 105 yards on 16 carries and put the Crimson ahead to stay by going over from the five as the gun sounded to end the first half. Chet Boulris, Larry Repsher, and Albie Cullen, all of whom will see action tomorrow, scored second-half touchdowns as Harvard won The Game for the first time in four seasons...
Yale has won 43 of the 75 contests played in the series; Harvard has taken 25, and there have been seven ties. Today, the teams are more evenly matched than at any other time since 1954. The Crimson has not yet completely made up for the 1957 debacle, and for the many seniors on the squad--including Boulris, Cullen, captain Hank Keohane, Jerry Weidler, Dave Cappiello, and Sam Halaby among the starters--this afternoon's contests is the last chance to erase some nagging memories
...years ago, when Crimson teams last descended en masse on the Bulldogs, four of the seven Harvard House teams were defeated, two tied, and Adams came away with the only win by downing Silliman College...
Nathan M. Pusey, President of Harvard University--"This relationship to God--the attitude of reverence--this is the paramount thing. All of us stand perpetually in need our lives of that basic affirmation which is the essence of faith...