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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About this time every fall, as Old Blues scan the sports pages for news of Yale's preparations for the Harvard game, the New Haven correspondents for the national wire services set up a five-day wailing.
Those were the days of the red handkerchiefs. When the students signed for their tickets before the big game, some in the choice sections would get tickets marked RED HANDKERCHIEF. Just before game time the boys would don their raccoon coats and rush over to Brine's, Leavitt and Pierce...
When the band struck up the Marseillaise, they whipped them out of their pockets and a Red H appeared in the stands, waving gaily at the astonished adversaries.
These will include in their numbers Captain Levi Jackson, a pepper guy practically without equal in the Ivy League, who has made up for the partial loss of his phenomenal speed by emerging as a fine pass receiver; Nadherny, who always goes through a Harvard line as if those red...
Attempting to spot the Yale offensive pattern for this week is a risky business. The Elis installed a completely now cycle of plays against Princeton last Saturday; the difference between Harvard's banged-up line and Princeton's powerful one is enough to cause Hickman to revert to straight running...