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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eighties saw radical changes in Harvard football: systematic coaching, organized practice, a training table, and faculty rulings. Games at first were not allowed in Cambridge until after four o'clock in the afternoon, and in 1885 the sport was placed under a University ban--lifted the following winter. In the fall of 1890, a Harvard team broke through and defeated Yale for the first time since...
Training was also being improved. 1889 saw the first spring practice. Two years later a crude and brutal machine called the tackling dummy came to Harvard. Dr. W. M. Conant '79 was made team doctor and began a custom of players' retiring from the field between halves for rubdowns and first...
After football had ridden out the storm of protest against its brutality, Harvard coaches began to devise even more brutal plays. Yale was no laggard either; and the second half of The Game of 1892 saw the introduction of collegiate football to the "Flying Wedge." "Guards Back," "Tackles Back," the "Turtle Back," and other brawny plays soon followed. By 1894 the games were so gory that a two-year break in relations with Yale resulted...
...post war period saw a Dixieland revival on college campuses--a merger of old New Orleans traditions with modern technique and Harmony--and Harvard was no exception. Harvard dixie activity hit its stride in the early Fifties, when Crimson Stompers made many sounds and WHRB assumed the roule of a jazz-oriented station. Herb Pomeroy, now a Boston bandleader, helped link Harvard and Boston jazz...
...even more famous palindrome, jokingly attributed to Napoleon: "Able was I ere I saw Elba...