Word: magenta
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile Jezebel was leading her husband a merry chase. Finally the poor rumshop keeper, rising in wrath, fell with the knife of an English sailor in his side. After nine days' mourning, Jezebel blossomed forth in magenta, and the handsome widow was soon an object of hate to all the married women of the island and a landmark of delight to visiting sailor...
Musty records of old University sports show that the first Harvard football "H" was worn by the Crimson, then really the Magenta, in a game played against Tufts on June...
...Harvard "ten" which played McGEI University on Jarvis Field in 1874, the first team to represent the University in football, did not wear the letter. Their uniform consisted of ordinary civilian long trousers, white undershirts, and they also wore Magenta handkerchiefs bound around their heads...
...next step in the evolution of Harvard football sweater took place the following fall when Harvard, through the enterprise of Morton Prince '75, substituted magenta and white striped jerseys for the undershirts...
...appeared on a Harvard sweeter when the eleven lined up against Tufts on June 4. The game was played at Jarvis Field, and the "Harvards," as the University eleven was at the time referred to by the press, created a sensation by being clothed in white sweaters with a magenta "H," "white pants," and "crimson hose...