Word: snow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Years later, when most have forgotten who won and by how much, 56,000 people will remember the day they braved the snow and bitter cold to watch a Harvard-Yale game in the Bowl. The snow made a fitting sequal to the rain of the Princeton contest and marked this fall as the season of the miserable Big 3 games...
There were no umbrellas this time to protect against the elements. The cold could be ignored only momentarily and almost an inch of snow covered the benches at game time, but this did not stop the Crimson cheering section from filling rapidly. Latecomers, most of them Elis, gingerly approached benches covered by another inch of snow...
...entertainment provided by the snow was slight and consisted of occasional snow-ball barages, aimed primarily at the Yale Band and the unicycling Crimson cheerleader...
...today could not keep away the inevitable wet. Today's variety was not equal to the torrents which saturated the Eli rooters during the Cornell game, and the Crimson fans during the Columbia and Princeton games, but it was of the most annoying variety--a soft mixture of snow and rain, finally changing to snow at game time...
...snow was a poor background for the game, but a group of energetic Yalies from Berkeley and Calhoun Colleges gave a very entertaining, if not varsity-like, football performance this morning on the wide green between the Colleges. Not content with the orthodox football uniforms, these players adorned themselves in bright pajamas, bermuda shorts, sweat pants, stocking hats. At half-time a band, led by a swordsman paraded out for a small show. No one much cared but the score at the half...