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...Thanksgiving Day, 27,000 fans streamed out of Harvard Stadium after watching Boston Latin lose to Boston English 20-18 in the traditional football battle between two ancient high school rivals. Many of the spectators crossed the Larz Anderson Bridge into Cambridge, intent on taking MBTA subways and buses home. But the buses and subways could not handle the sudden influx at once, and as the largely teen-aged crowd backed up in Harvard Square, it turned into a surly mob. Beatings, purse-snatchings, and acts of vandalism broke out all over the Square, and before a hastily assembled force...
Whitlock listed several steps to prevent another disturbance that would stop short of a flat refusal to permit the game. He mentioned additional police protection, busing students to and from the game," and channeling part of the crowd into the subway through the MBTA yards on Mem Drive, so that they would not have to enter the Square to catch the train. Whitlock also suggested that a different date for the game might reduce the size of the crowd...
McCabe said he and other officials at the game were unaware of the riot until that night. The Stadium is within Boston city limits, but the mob collected in Cambridge around the MBTA entrance in Harvard Square...
...city manager added later that he could not take the alternate course of asking Boston to control the crowd because he has "no relations" with Boston. The Stadium lies within the city limits of Boston, but the spectators must cross into Cambridge to take MBTA buses and subways...
Arguments of inconvenience hardly outweigh the advantages for Harvard. Although parking space is limited, it should be adequate. Instead of people who drive in from the suburbs to Harvard games, there will be people who take buses or the MBTA in from town. Also, a section of the Business School lot might be roped off for parking, though it is hardly necessary to pave the grass by the Charles. When the Patrots played an exhibition game at Harvard several years ago, parking was not an overwhelming problem. Sundays help...