Word: yale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is one thing that they know for a fact. Harvard and Yale always give their best 60 minutes of bruising football. No quarter is given or asked. Occasionally there are years when the records of both elevens stand up for themselves, but this year the game rides on just as proudly on tradition alone...
Sixty-four years ago, in 1875, fifteen good Harvard men and true and one substitute invaded New Haven and licked the handle-bar moustaches off the home team in the first Harvard-Yale football game in history. The gruelling contest lasted an hour and a half...
...were men in those days, for the records show only the one injury, "Keys was kicked in the wind, and the game was sopped for a couple of minutes," a contemporary account states. The only other casualty occurred in the third half-hour when Thompson of Yale fell heavily on the pigskin, which gave the ghost and exploded. Taking a realistic view of the situation, the referee blow the ball up and tossed...
That Harvard drubbed Yale to the tune of our goals and four touchdowns to nothing may be partially explained by the rules difficulties. Football as it was played at Cambridge and football as it was played at New Haven were as unlike as marbles and ping-pong. For years the Yales and the Harvards couldn't get together...
Leverett House, which finished sixth in the inter-House league, will play Trumbull College of Yale at Soldiers Field at 10:15 o'clock. Trumbull was seventh of the ten teams in Intramural football of Yale...