Word: rains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard-Yale football history since, the war is too recent to require reviewing. The experience of the past two years seems to indicate that rain is as indispensable as the kick-off. People who have attended these community shower-baths will feel an appreciative sympathy to read the chronicle of the 1890 game, when it poured torrents and all the spectators had to take cover under oilcloth table cover and other impromptu ponchos...
...familiar barnyard animal is distinguished by its penchant for pushing about in the mud, but people do not gather by the fifty thousand to see contests among these animals, eleven on a side. The 69,000 rain-drenched individuals who saw Illinois wallow against Chicago might as well have been watching such a game of porcine poke-belly. Britton's toe and a brace of fumbles gave the mud-match to Illinois...
...When our men are working hard to retrieve Harvard's defeats of last season, their training is certainly made less monotonous and more earnest and attractive if they feel that all the eyes of the University are upon them. As it is at present, the Varsity practices every day, rain or shine, and yet not a man takes enough interest to watch them and give them an encouraging word...
Princeton met defeat at the hands of Colgate on October 24, 9 to 0. The game was played in the rain and both Slagle and Tryon, great Colgate back, were badly hampered by the wet field. The teams were very evenly matched and there was no scoring until the last period. The Princeton line was greatly improved, and held Tryon in check until the closing minutes...
Princeton met defeat at the hands of Colgate on October 24, 9 to 0. The game was played in the rain and both Slagle and Tryon, great Colgate back, were badly hampered by the wet field. The teams were very evenly matched and there was no scoring until the last period. The Princeton line was greatly improved, and held Tryon in check until the closing minutes...