Word: blue
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just "take off," as backfield Coach Davy Nelson would say--when Harvard and Yale meet for the sixty-fifth time today at 1:45 p.m. in the Stadium. Approximately 57,000 partisans have anteed up as much as $30 apiece for the privilege of watching the Crimson and the Blue match new coaches against each other for the first time since...
...blue-clad Yales will line up for the kickoff as 6 1/2 point underdogs...
...Blue high command has succeeded in exploiting the "seven dwarf" underdog angle--reports of "dismal" and "discouraging" practice sessions have been filtering out of New Haven all week...
Rivalries followed rapidly, and feelings between the Crimson and Blue got touchier and touchier. Relationships were broken off for three years just before the turn of the century, but the game was too good an excuse for a big weekend, and the classic was reinstated...
Harkness' present to Harvard came as a complete surprise. To be sure, a Student Council committee had suggested in 1926 that a House system be established. But when Harkness offered money to Harvard, it came, as President Lowell said, "like a bolt from the Blue." Harkness had previously made important gifts to Yale, but Lowell had never looked to the Eli graduate to make such a substantial gift to Harvard...