It was a pleasure. Except for the few in the stands who had been around for the 1948 football season, no one had seen a Crimson squad fashion a victory it could be genuinely proud of. Early in the first quarter the crowd was already sure that it would at least see competition on the field that day; it responded with the most unrestrained cheering heard locally for two years.

Even the Band, undefeated in many years, played more spiritedly and professionally than usual. After the game it serenaded the team, but its song, instead of being a song of victory. An immense crowd formed behind the musicians, sang and cheered lustily, and then began to demand an appearance by Lloyd Jordan.

The coach finally stepped out, grinning broadly, and flipped the game ball to band director Malcolm H. Holmes '23. The Band, he noted, had stuck with the team through the leanest times. The Band and crowd responded with "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow."

Amid the mob immediately after the game, a little girl asked for Art Pappas' autograph.

Inside the Harvard dressing room, the delighted squad was relatively subdued, apparently determined to accept its hard-earned victory with proper Harvard calm.

Earl Blaik in a post game conference remarked that the game was a good thing for Harvard, a switch on his speech after last year's rout by Army when he said Harvard is good for football. As for the Crimson's opponent of next week, Dartmouth, Blaik, who has played both teams, said merely that "it should be a good game--that's the conventional answer."