One of the most colorful sporting events in the whole sport world, the fifty-sixth version of the Harvard-Yale football game will be unfolded in the Stadium this afternoon.

It may not be pure fantasy to say that the Harvard-Yale game is a definite part of the social texture if not of the country or of New England, then at least of Boston.

There have been brilliant games and dull games, and dubs, but there have always been tons of color.

Below are some of the standout games from 1914 until the present time.

In 1914 the game was good from a Harvard viewpoint. In that year the women were as beautiful as ever and besides they were beginning to wear skirts that were not quite so long and from which toes and hints of an ankle were beginning to peek. In Europe there was some sort of a war going on, and people were being killed, and reports from Walter Hines Pages said that things were in pretty nasty shape over there, but in this country everything was all right.

The market was a litle shaky perhaps but otherwise nothing happened. And so big crowds went to the Bowl which was being opened for the first time, and watched Harvard beat Yale, thoroughly and completely, 36-0. This team was the greatest team in Harvard history. Besides Eddie Mahan and Tack Hardwick, there were on this team such Harvard illustriouses as Hugs Francke, Stan Pennock, and Jeff Coolidge who picked up a fumble on his five-yard line and ran 95 yards with it.

The following year Harvard beat Yale 41-0. 41-0, just think of it! A kid named Eddie Mahan played a good game. Four times he plunged head first across the Yale goal line. Five times he swung his toe and a Stadium full watched the ball careen over the goal post for points after. Twenty-nine of Harvard's points were picked up by Mahan who was playing his last game.

Everything went wrong in 1916. Yale even beat Harvard 6-3. This was not only the first time that Yale had beaten Harvard since 1907, it was the first time that they had even scored a touchdown. Eddie Casey did his best when he ran 72 yards, but a penalty nullified his attempt.

In 1917 and 1918 there were no games at all. People were too busy to play football. Harvard and Yale men weren't competing against each other any more.

But in 1919 there was savage reaction to normalcy. Talk about the war was taboo. The teams were big and tough. There were fellows on them who had gone through more than the average college "man". When they started to roll they didn't like to be stopped. Eddie Casey came back to college and continued where he'd left off, and Harvard won 10-3. It was considered by Harvard grads only one aspect of the return to normalcy. Casey scored the touchdown, Jom Braden kicked a field goal from the 53-yard line! (The goal posts were on the goal line then.)

In 1920 the return to normalcy continued. Wison and his Utopian ideals were relegated to the dog house, and a sound man who would be sure to do the right things went into the White House. Not brilliant, but sound. This was the game where bootlegged liquor and bath-tub gin were given their first official recognition. They were pronounced insufficient.

Harvard won this game 9-0. Stopped from gaining along the ground by a rock-ribbed Yale defense they took to the air. Charlie Buell hoisted a field goal in the first period, and another in the last. Captain Arne Horween contributed his bit by kicking a goal also in the fourth.

In the next four years, the two teams divided. It was becoming, if possible, more fun to go to the football games than it had been before. The Twentieth Amendment had been passed, and the girls proved it by snipping two inches off the hems of their dresses every year.

In 1921 Charlie Buell and George Owen beat Yale 10 to 3. In 1922 Charlie Buell and George Owen beat Yale 10 to 3 again. George Owen later said that he'd never enjoyed playing football, but the Stadium and Bowl crowds just ate it up.

In 1923 and 1924 Yale got some good players of its own. The first year Yale beat Harvard 13-0 in spite of the soggy underground which held back Mal Stevens and other fleet-footed Yale backs. But Ducky Pond just loved it. He sloshed through for 67 yards and touchdown, Yale's first touchdown in the Stadium since the afore-mentioned magic year of 1907.