Word: yale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cambridge, 52,000 fans, sitting in an ice-caked horseshoe, had hot & cold chills as they watched Harvard and Yale fight it out in the traditional Big Game of the East. No title was at stake. Undefeated Cornell had already clinched the mythical Ivy League championship. Ducky Pond had admitted that this year's Yale team was the worst he ever coached. Harvard had been beaten by Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, Princeton...
...shivering spectators would not have traded seats with any sun-baked fan in Florida or California. In as exciting a game as has been seen in its 57-year history, the underdog Bulldogs tore the Harvard team to tatters, kept them away from the Yale goal line until the very last minute, scampered away with a 20-to-7 victory. Even before the last-minute Harvard touchdown, jubilant Yalemen were on the field snatching the ball from the players, scuffling with cops, tearing down goal posts and bashing one another's noses...
...Philadelphia, 15,000 Negro fans gathered for the annual Lincoln-Howard game, Harvard-Yale game of Negro football (started in 1894). In recent years, Lincoln and Howard, once the Big Two of colored collegiate athletics, have been overshadowed by Johnny-come-lately Negro football teams, but their annual set-to is still the traditional Big Game of the year...
Invitations to Earl Browder, U. S. Communist No. 1, to make a speech before Harvard, Princeton and Dartmouth undergraduate societies were rescinded by university authorities because he was under U. S. indictment for passport fraud. When Yale undergraduates also invited him, urbane President Charles Seymour said he would not interfere. His reason (laid down two years ago in his inaugural address): "The London policemen in Hyde Park have learned that the surest method of exposing incompetent charlatanism is to give the charlatan a protected forum...
...Harvard dormitories, on the day of the Harvard-Yale football game, staff members of The Yale Record, undergraduate funnypaper, planted a spurious edition of The Harvard Crimson, undergraduate daily. Alarmed Harvard-men read that President James Bryant Conant had resigned, would be replaced by Yaleman Robert Maynard Hutchins, president of the University of Chicago. Also headlined was a report that Football Coach Richard Cresson Harlow, who is also a Harvard associate in oology, would become a Yale professor of ornithology because "ornithology has always been my main interest and I have always maintained that birds lay bigger and better eggs...