Word: havener
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reverses in Football are a tender subject to any loyal alumnus. The first game with-Yale took place in the fall of 1875. The teams were composed of 15 men each. Harvard won, Yale failing to score. The following year, 1876, the game again took place in New haven, and was brought to a most unsatisfactory ending by the pulling down of the goal posts by the Yale crowd, just as Harvard had the ball in front of the bar for a try goal...
Potentially Yale's eleven is one of the strongest ever turned out at New Haven. A tremendous offensive, made possible by the great charge of the line and the speed and weight of the backs, has given the Blue many touchdowns. Even while doing down to defeat before Pennsylvania and Princeton, Yale was able to score a pair of touchdowns on each occasion...
...next few years, the games word played in Boston, New Haven and New York; then, in 1889, Springfield was made the authorized battle ground and the two colleges journeyed out along the post road to meet each other half way on neutral territory. Football was finally beginning to take on a modern aspect with a genuine differentiation between backfield and line. Scouting was not yet a business and sometimes chose picturesque methods. Some enterprising Yale men were wont to observe Harvard's secret practice on Soldiers Field from the Mount Auburn Cemetery tower, until Major Henry Lee Higginson was apprised...
Down in New Haven Coach Skullen Bones' men were tapping each other on the back and going to their rooms, or to anybody else's room where there was enough ice. A pre-war hush pervaded their training camp: you could have heard a bottle drop...
...crowds shuffle laboriously across the Anderson bridge, the phantom forms of John Harvard and Eli Yale stalk through their midst, arm in arm, returning to Cambridge after many historic conflicts on the football field. They have met many times before, and in many different situations: in Hamilton Park, New Haven, for the first time, on neutral ground at Spring-field, in Boston baseball parks, in New York, and for years now, alternately in the Bowl and the Stadium. Theirs is the longest football tradition in the country. Between them, they have fathered that ungainly child, the modern game of football...