The second year Yale beat Harvard 19-6 in another sea battle. Harvard through the agency of Erwin Gehrke kicked two field goals in the first half with a leaden ball, but that ended their surge for the day. Yale came into its own and rolled up three touchdowns before the game had ended.

Nineteen twenty-five was a dull year. The whole game was played within Harvard's ten yard line except for occasional punts, but it ended in a scoreless tie.

Ninteen twenty-six to 1929 were great years. The new era. There were land booms in Florida and stock booms in New York. Harvard graduates were all bond salesmen and customers' men. Harvard undergraduates were reccoon coats, no hats, and long slick hair. Their girls were flat-chested and had no hips.

Coolidge and Hoover were in the White House, and no ill-advised legislation was rushed through without consulting the Chamber of Commerce. It was the era of great athletes: Bobby Jones, Red Grange, Bill Tilden, Cochet, Howie Morenz, Eddie Shore at his best, the Babe, the Rajah, Man o' War. It was a period of cocktail parties and three day parties. It was gilded, vicious, but a hell of a lot of fun.

The first two years Yale beat Harvard 12-7 and 14-0. In 1928 Harvard came into its own after five barren years. Dave Guarnaccia and Art French collaborated on laterals that made Yale dizzy. In the 1929 game Albie Booth pulled his amazing disrobing act as he ran onto the field in an attempt to boot a field goal, which attempt was smothered by Jim Douglas. Eddie Mays, Charlie Devens, and a Sophomore named Barry Wood combined to give Harvard a score of 10 which was good enough to beat the six points that Yale obtained on the end of a Booth pass.

In 1930 a depression had started, but no one was willing to admit it. A period of retrenchment, a short deflation, was all that people called it. The Stadium and Bowl were still filled. It was still the period of graduate coaching and no public sale. Barry Wood and Captain Ben Ticknor managed to pull out a Harvard victory, 13-0.

In 1931 Barry Wood ended the game flat on his back under an avalanche of Yale players in a vain attempt to get a winning pass off. Albie Booth boosted a field goal which was enough to win the game. There were some who said Wood did not play such a good game. This subject can be taken up with Ted Husing who will be in the Stadium this afternoon.

In 1932 Yale game tickets went on public sale. The Harvard-Yale game ceased to be a family affair. A person could no longer be sure that the person who was sitting next to him could safely be talked with. It might be that he would be a member of the lower classes. And that ended the gilded period.