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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cavalcade (Aug. 20, 1934). Cavalcade won the Kentucky Derby of 1934. By Aug. i (opening of the Saratoga season) he had won almost every important race for three-year-olds, had been defeated only once and was touted as another Man o'War. Week after Cavalcade posed for TIME'S cameraman, he tripped and bruised his foot. By the time the cover appeared on the newsstands, Cavalcade had been scratched from the Travers, didn't even run. He never won another race...
Dave Glueck of the Record: "Harvard, 21 to 7. The Crimson running attack is superior, and her passing almost equal to that of Yale. Past performances give the Cantabs a decided edge...
When the Harvard and Yale elevens face each other for the fifty-eighth time this afternoon, it is a foregone conclusion that the Stadium, barring some cataclysmic mishap, will be filled almost to overflowing...
...with several exceptions; bootleg liquor and bathtub gin made their first appearance. The crimson emerged victorious from this game also, with the "foot" in football very evident. Charlie Buell kicked two field goals, Arnold Horween one, for the game's only scores. The next two years saw almost identical games. Yale entered the favorite, emerged beaten 10 to 3, with Charlie Buell and George Owen doing yeoman service for the winners on both occasions...
...food make this a good bet. Probably will be crowded as it isn't murderous in its prices. . . . The Mayfair: about the same as the others, a little noisier, and more expensive. . . Crawford House-to be avoided if possible. Slumming that isn't even fun. . . By the way, we almost forgot the two swanker of the Boston night spots, the Fox and Hounds and the newly created Zero Hereford. Music at both is universal, but not too good. See and be seen is the motto here...