Word: haven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after between the Crimson and the Blue will be considerably more of a contest than the casual observer might except. There is no doubt but that Yale has the stronger team in so far as potential possibilities are concerned, and the records for the season show that the New Haven aggregation has had the greater success by a wide margin. Yale has defeated Army, Princeton and Dartmouth, three of the strongest teams in the East. Harvard, has had but one outstanding victory to its credit, that over Indians, but has fallen before Purdue, Pennsylvania and Dartmouth by no uncertain margins...
Next to the Yale-Princeton series, the rivalry between the Crimson and the Blue is the oldest in the country. After a mess of preliminary negotiations Harvard faced Yale at New Haven on November 13, 1875. Contemporary accounts state that about 140 students accompanied the team to New Haven, "so that the college was very well represented at the match...
...weeks later he related to some friends in San Francisco the story of the practice and the "Flying Wedge" as he saw it. At a nearby table in the restaurant sat a Yale man. He could make nothing of the tale, but wrote to New Haven that Harvard apparently had a dangerous formation. The coaches put their heads together, guessed at the Wedge and devised a defense which, after the first half of the game, smashed the attack completely...
...Yale has scored but one touchdown in the Stadium since 1907 doesn't mean a things to him. He has never seen the Yale trick play of a pass from the center to the great open spaces. But the little fellow will learn. Give him time. Even Yale men haven't learned it thoroughly yet, judging from the quoted odds in our daily journals. My message of warning to my Yale friends today is that no Yale team has ever good enough and no Harvard team ever poor enough to make the Eils a legitimate favorite...
...know what traditions mean at New Haven, and I don't believe the no-touch-down-in-the-stadium tradition will be lightly tossed aside. I understand that "Ducky" Pond sat lone on at Yale Fence completely ostracized, after he forgot he was in the Stadium and ran 60 yards with a recovered fumble for Yale's only Stadium touchdown since Joe Forecast first pair of rompers. And with that lesson in mind two years later, the Yale backs argued and argued as to who would make the supreme sacrifice but on would do it. And who has ever questioned...