Word: havener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Foremost of the local stations carrying the broadcast is the Herald-Traveler's WHDH, operating at 850 kilocycles. In the New York City area, WLIB in Brooklyn will feature the game, according to William J. Bingham '16, director of Physical Education and Athletics. New Haven's WNHC and the Yale Network will keep stay-at-home Bulldog enthusiasts well-informed of the struggle with a play-by-play description of this latest in a venerable series of Harvard-Yale football battles...
Most familiar in the memory of present undergraduates have been the post-1940 contests, for the surviving members of the class of 1944 who are still without degrees can well recall the Crimson's thrashing of the Elis at New Haven, 28 to 0, in the third-highest margin of victory the Cantabs ever gained over the Boola Boos. The Series to Date Year Harvard Yale Year Harvard Yale 1875-76 4g-4t 0 1910 0 0 1876-77 3t 1g 1911 0 0 (Yale...
...kinds of people who are still rambling around the Yard journeyed down to New Haven that rainy afternoon, to see an underdog Eli team snatch a 7 to 3 win from the Crimson, a game in which Don Richards, later to be killed in action in the Normandy campaign, ran back a punt 60 yards for an apparent touchdown, only to have the play called back because the Crimson was offside...
...founders of the New Haven colony, like those of Massachusetts Bay, cherished the establishment of a college as an essential part of their ideal of a Christian state, of which education and religion should be the basis and the chief fruits...
Thus in 1700 AD the citizens of New Haven, tired of contributing to the support of an institution of decided Crimson hue in far-off Cambridge since the year 1644, decided to "educate ministers in their own way," and ten clergymen, Harvard graduates all, convened to do the job. Not until 18 years later, however, in 1718 when a certain Governor of the British East India Company saw fit to contribute his fortune to the Arts and Sciences, did the embryo college become financially secure, and in gratitude they immortalized the name of Elihu Yale...