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Playing on their home turf, the Bulldogs conceded to play the game as Harvard asked, with rules allowing a player to run the ball as well as kick it. Although it doesn't seem like much today--as the Elis trot into Soldiers Field for the 97th matchup of the series--Harvard set the trend in football back then. Even though Yale walked away with a defeat, the Elis adopted the rules and stuck to them in the following years...
...Restic and Penn head coach Harry Gamble. It was the vital weekly ritual known as Exchange of Game Films, and both coaching staffs--fresh from exploring films of their own squad's last contest--sat down to pore over the footage of their adversary for this weekend's matchup at Franklin Field...
...started with all the sullen signs of a typical Harvard-Cornell matchup: gray skies, a slippery field, and a bobbled Crimson kickoff return which pinned the gridders deep in their own territory...
Haverford did not exactly furnish the Crimson with its most formidable opposition of the fall. The season begins for real in less than a week, when the booters take on notoriously pesky MIT next Wednesday, followed three days later by a crucial matchup with eastern power Columbia...
...Games neared, the debate focused more on the Coe-Ovett matchup. Relations between the two are chilly, perhaps because they are so different. The affable, talkative Coe is the people's choice. A 5-ft. 9¼-in., 129-lb. bantam, Coe emphasizes speed over endurance in his training. Ovett is intense and taciturn, especially with the press. He does little but eat, sleep and train; in an average week he will turn in 160 or more miles in contrast to Coe's 50 to 70. After he shattered Coe's mile mark, however, Ovett did permit...