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Playing on their home turf, the Bulldogs conceded to play the game as Harvard asked, with rules allowing a player to run the ball as well as kick it. Although it doesn't seem like much today--as the Elis trot into Soldiers Field for the 97th matchup of the series--Harvard set the trend in football back then. Even though Yale walked away with a defeat, the Elis adopted the rules and stuck to them in the following years...
...nine in the morning on a raw November day, Soldiers Field stretches out like a remote desert, seemingly much farther than its actual distance from the hub-bub of rush-hour Harvard Square. Inside Dillon Field House, the citadel of Crimson athletics, everything moves at a calm, leisurely pace, but the air is full of energy being stored. And under the bright lights of the training room, amid the smell of bandages, tape and salve, Jack Fadden is at work. He tapes and talks, talks and tapes, massaging his patients' bodies and minds. Jack Fadden has been doing the same...
...route Fadden took to Dillon Field House was fairly simple: Born in Boston to Irish-immigrant parents in 1899, Fadden went to assorted schools in the area until he began studying physical education with Dr. Tommy Richards, the doctor for the Harvard football team. Richards brought Fadden to Cambridge...
Harvard tallied its other scores in the fourth quarter. A Dave Cody field goal padded the gridders' lead by three. When Rogan fumbled at mid-field, St. John maneuvered the squad downfield and appropriately sneaked in with the final score...
Coppinger snagged an Eli pass minutes later to halt Yale's last-gasp effort, and the stands--the Harvard side that is--erupted in a frenzy. Fans poured down onto the field and soon toppled the uprights as the most astonishing Harvard performance since the 29-29 "victory" of 1968 came...