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...faculty rulings. Games at first were not allowed in Cambridge until after 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and in 1885, football was abolished in Harvard and the team withdrew from the Intercollegiate Association. The ban was lifted the following winter. In the fall of 1890, Harvard broke a jinx of long standing to defeat a great Yale team in the first victory over the Elis since...
...faculty rulings. Games at first were not allowed in Cambridge until after 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and in 1885, football was abolished in Harvard and the team withdrew from the Intercollegiate Association. The ban was lifted the following winter. In the fall of 1890. Harvard broke a jinx of long standing to defeat a great Yale team in the first victory over the Elis since...
Having provided his team with what seemed a safe margin, Gnome Booth retired to the sidelines, watched Dartmouth creep up. In the last half he returned to the lineup but by this time McCall and Morton were making a turncoat of the jinx that has bothered Dartmouth in previous Yale Bowl games. Morton had made a 94-yd. runback of a Yale kickoff. McCall caught a pass intended for Booth, scuttled 60 yd. for a touchdown. Three minutes before the game ended the score which had been Yale 33, Dartmouth 10 had become Yale 33, Dartmouth 30. Standing on Yale...
Determined to break the jinx that follows its out of town trips, the Harvard basketball five left Cambridge last night for Philadelphia where it meets the strong Pennsylvania aggregation tonight. The only defeats suffered by the Crimson team thus far this year have occurred on trips away from home...
...Cantabrigian prejudices, I am forced to decree that only those will watch this afternoon's game in the Stadium who can not afford to travel to Maine, where Colby will clinch the state championship, or to Yale where "Der Tag" has arrived and the Big Green will shake the jinx at the Bowl. If the going is wet, Dartmouth should have a decided edge; if dry, the Bulldog will battle them on nearly even terms...