Word: havener
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Tradition will prevail once again today in the sixty-fourth running of the Harvard-Yale football classic in the Yale Bowl here in New Haven. The six weeks of preliminary competition that marked the Elis with a crushing superiority went by the boards last weekend with a pair of startling upsets, and the 1:30 o'clock kickoff today will find most of the 70,496 persons in the anticipated sellout crowd of the opinion that "it will be anybody's game...
Early in the evening a crimson-clad baud flooded a segment of New Haven with flyers emblazoned with President Conant's picture and advocating "Bryant Wintergreen for President." Few people could guess immediately whether this prauk originated in Cambridge or at Yale, so the total offset was not startling...
...Haven was a quiet city last night, but a city obviously ready to burst at the seams momentarily, as thousands of Crimson adherents poured into the gothic fortress that is Eli Yale. Minions of the law, everywhere in evidence, had little trouble, but spent their long hours moving efficiently through the streets. Last night the Crimson carried off most of the honors to be had in New Haven. Here for the game and excited about it, the visitors out-cheered, out-sang, and out-shouted their hosts throughout the clear, cold evening hours...
Groups of Harvard students roamed the streets of New Haven until all hours singing loudly, and occasionally off key and with the wrong words, all the Harvard songs they know. It was a cold night, and the constabulary made no real short to keep the peace...
Today's meeting of two of New England's most unpredictable football outfits in the giant New Haven saucer fluds the gentlemen of the press box in their usual position concerning the outcome. A small but hardy band is way out on a limb stringing along with the Crimson, while the more conservative elements hug the trunk of the arbor prognosticoris and give the Bulldog a slim but definite hug the trunk of the arbor prognosticoris and give the Bulldog a slim but definite margin...