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...Cumnock Fields, Where Harvard youth and prolate spheroids meet To chase the glowing hours with flying feet... Mort Sadow...
Although the pen of Mort Sadow may not be a match for the Bard himself, anyone who chats briefly with Mr. Sadow will concur that there are few who can rival his encyclopedial knowledge of Crimson football lore. Sadow is such a devote of Harvard tradition that he disdains wearing a Crimson sweater, opting for what he describes as a bluer hue of red or magenta. Magenta was originally selected as the team color for Harvard on January 24, 1873 before Crimson was later adopted. By the way, the word "glowing" in Sadow's poem should be printed in "purple...
...Sadow's initiation to Harvard football began after the Rose Bowl game on January 2, 1920 when Harvard defeated the Oregon ducks, 7-6, in Pasadena. Sadow was then a newsboy in Boston and was enraptured by the account of the game. In a stentorian voice he recalls that one headline from that day's paper was "Oregon Captain Weeps...
...early going. In the second half, the Harvard defense summoned up a truly classic inspirational effort and blocked two Oregon field goal attempts and repulsed another sally deep into their won territory. Harvard's star player Arnold Horween kicked the extra point to provide the margin of victory and Sadow persuaded his mother to name his younger brother Arnold after...
...Cried." At 50, Mrs. Sadow had put in 25 years in the frenetic field of Manhattan fashion advertising to become a copy supervisor with a two-window corner office, a comfortable $13,000 salary, and a sense of frustration. "The superficial little plays on words, the tired old turns of phrase that might seem something new to a little girl fresh out of Smith or Vassar-they were old hat to me." Mrs. Sadow quit to seek a master's degree in library service at Columbia, where at first she found studies so difficult that she "went home...