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Yale got off to a quick start when Ben "Butterfingers" Beach took the opening kickoff and returned it 55 yards for the initial score. Unfortunately for the Crimeds. Beach had run the wrong way and the Bulldogs scored a safety. Beach roared back in the second quarter, however, to score the first Crimson touchdown with a long, 34-yard gallop. He slanted off the right tackle, broke three tackles, and scampered the remaining distance to the goal line to give the CRIMSON a 7-2 halftime edge...
...second quarter, the offense occasionally indicated that it might score some points. After fullback Tom Miller had gained a total of one yard on two consecutive carries. Blankenship sent him up the middle on a third-and-nine situation. He broke through the line, and with the help of a crushing block by Varney, gained 18 yards to the Harvard...
...next three plays went nowhere. Yale quarterback Joe Massey, meanwhile, was showing why he has earned a reputation for being a second-half quarterback, so the Crimson got two more chances before halftime but failed to score...
Harvard had an excellent chance to score when Jim Reynolds. who played a superb game, returned the second-half kickoff 47 yards to the Yale 49 with the help of some great blocking. But a penalty and a fumble by Miller gave Yale the ball...
...first game in history the CRIMSON had not won by a score of 23-2. President Nathan M. Pusey, denying that the CRIMSON is de-emphasizing football, noted that "on any given Sunday, any given team can beat any other given team in this league." President Pusey gets $75,000 annually as President of Harvard, plus first dibs on the bullhorn in the event of student riots and an annual banquet by the Cambridge fuzz...