As has been noted, during the long stretch of years from 1875 to 1908, Yale defeated Harvard with monotonous regularity, which accounts for the fact that of the 46 football games played Yale has won 27, Harvard 13, and six have been tied.

The last 20 years of racing on the Thames have seen much closer competition between Harvard and Yale than any prior period of similar length, for in the first thirty-odd years of rowing Yale won but seven races in 25 years, and during the next 20 years Harvard won only three races. A dismal stretch to live through and to look back upon.

The Harvard crews from 1908 to 1915, inclusive, were coached by James Wray, and won six of the eight races rowed, the 1908 race being the one in which the Yale stroke was taken into the launch at the three-mile mark and the crew finished with seven men in the shell.

In 1914 the second University crew, coached by Robert F. Herrick '90, went over to England and won the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley. Mr. Herrick also coached the 1916 University eight which established the present down stream record of 20 minutes, 2 seconds. He was succeeded as coach by William Haines in 1918, 1919, 1920, and 1921. Haines having been assistant coach in 1916. Harvard won the 1918 and 1920 races. The 1922 University, coached by R. Reber Howe '01, lost as did the crew of 1913, coached by Ralph Muller. E. A. Stevens came from the Pacific Coast in 1924 and remained through 1925 and up to June 1, 1926, when he resigned and was succeeded by H. H. Haines. These three crews were all defeated, thus completing a stretch of six consecutive Yale victories on the river. Within the years under review, however, Harvard in 1908-1914 did exactly the same thing.

Three times prior to 1908, Harvard and Yale had won six times consecutively, Harvard in 1866-1871, and Yale in 1892-1898 and in 1900-1905. There was no race in 1896.

The Harvard crew of 1927, coached by E. J. Brown '96, who had coached the class crews at Cambridge for 20 years, prevented Yale from establishing a new record in consecutive rowing victories.

During the last 20 years, therefore, Harvard and Yale have rowed 19 races, including a two-mile race on the Housatonic River in 1918. There was no race in 1917. During this period each university won a series of six consecutive races and of the total number rowed Harvard won ten and Yale nine.

Harvard and Yale have rowed 63 races, beginning in 1852. Of these, Yale has won 34 and Harvard 31.

As in rowing, honors in baseball have been fairly evenly divided between Harvard and Yale since 1907. In 1917 there were no ball games, and of the 19 annual series played. Yale has won ten and Harvard nine. In nine years a third game was necessary and of the a games played. Yale has won 24 and Harvard 23.

L. P. Pieper '03, was coach of the '05, '09, and to teams and won only in 1908. The 1909 series is worthy of note in that in nearly 60 years of Harvard Yale base ball it is the only one in which two extra inning games have been played to settle the issue.

In 1910 a permanent change in Yale's Commencement Day date necessitated for the first time the playing of the first two games on successive days at New Haven and Cambridge. This meant that two good pitchers had to be developed to win the series in two games.

Beginning in 1911, F. J. Sexton, Brown '93, later with the Boston National League team, coached until the middle of the 1915 season, when he resigned and was succeeded by P. D. Haughton '99. During this period Harvard won three of the five series.

In 1913, on Soldiers Field, with S. M. Felton '13, pitching, Harvard won 4 to 3 in 14 innings, the longest game in Harvard-Yale baseball history. In 1914, by mutual agreement, for one year, the coach was banished from the bench and the players left to their own initiative. The following year Harvard, Yale, and Princeton agreed to play a round robin series of three games with each other,