Word: mays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crowds flocked to games at $3.85 a head are gone, never to return." In Cambridge, however, those days are only a little less alive than they were in the twenties, and there is no real reason why they should be given up for dead in New Haven. New York may blossom with big rival games every Saturday that cut into the Bowl trade, but Boston provides stiff competition...
...will catch the Chicago disease, and either give up their amateurism or forget about big-time football. From Harvard's experience, there is no such "trend" in evidence. As a matter of fact, every Harvard game this fall has drawn a somewhat bigger crowd than the H.A.A. expected. Princeton may be having a lean year, but there is no widespread dissatisfaction among amateur football teams which could satisfy Nassau's prophecy of doom...
...meager 32,000 at the Bowl last Saturday is simply the one-sidedness of the predictions of the game. It is ironical that after this playing down in the papers the game turned out to be a genuine Big Three thriller. The football public from now on may believe the tradition that a Big Three game is always exciting enough for anybody's $3.85. At least, the Harvard-Yale fans seem to believe...
Yale's practices this week have been devoted chiefly to forward passing, because there they believe a weakness has in Crimson defensive armor. Seymour and the ground game may only be an occasional threat...
...Meanwhile," the assistant professor commented, "the Chinese feel that they are fighting what may prove to be the first phase of a world conflict between democracies and dictatorships, and they look forward with confidence to victory if they are not denied support from Great Britain and the United States...