Word: plays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first Harvard-Yale tilt was played on November 13, 1875, 58 years after "The Battle of the Delta", the first instance of football or anything skin to it ever played by undergraduates in the University. This first meeting of the two universities, which were to form an alliance of friendly rivalry for so many years, was held at New Haven. The game was played under Rugby rules with a Rugby ball. Owing to the comparative newness of the Elis, the Crimson players completely out-passed their opponents, winning by our field goals and four touchdowns to nothing. In these days...
...Crimson team of 1881 consisted of high baseball shoes with leather strips on the soles, crimson stockings and jerseys, with a white canvas jacket over the jersey, and knee breeches that once had been white. There were no pads or head gears or similar protection, for mass play had not been invented. A few of the Harvard men went bareheaded while others wore crimson football caps of soft wool without visors; the Yale team wore long blue caps knit like a stocking with a blue tassel...
Though a blasting wind swept across the field and the men were drenched to the skin after the first 45 minutes of play--there being two halfs of 45 minutes each--the men simply wandered about the field during intermission. There were no rubdowns, there was no hot broth: for no quarters or dressing rooms were then in use. Until 1881 there was no medical supervisor nor any physical trainer. That year also witnessed the coming to Harvard of its first football coach, yet systematic coaching was not instituted until Captain W.A. Brooks '87 appointed F.A. Mason '84 coach...
...freshman Players, who furnished the music for last week's tea, will play today. They have also been engaged for all ensuing teas due to the popularity of their music last week...
These three teams will play a series of matches during the following week. Any man in a lower team defeating a man in the team above him will automatically take his place...