NEW HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 21--High up on the south side, an old Harvard grad, he must have been Class of '14 or so, sat down and cried with joy. The declared read Visitors 13, Yale 0. Already, more youthful Harvards were swarming through the Bowl's exits singing and cheering jubilantly. A few yards to the side, John Culver and Nick Culolias, 200 pound giants, were playfully slamming each other on the back.

Inside, 20,000 Harvard fans had just finished waving triumphant hand-kerchiefs, mimicking 45,000 Blues to the bottom of their cold seats. The Harvard Band, undefeated again, had just circled the inside of the Bowl, playing "Where, Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone?"

A Yale degree sometimes valued at $10,000 wasn't worth a plugged nickel today.

For Harvard's football team, winless in the Bowl since 1940, winless on the road in seven years, winless against Yale since 1948, outplayed favored Yale all the way here today, toying with the great Eli line, opening it almost at will, stopping the Yale runners consistently. And it brought home part of the Big Three title, the first since 1940.

Great Harvard Line

It was a good Harvard backfield, but it was a great Harvard line. Against practically the same forward wall which a year ago had pushed the Crimson all over the field, the varsity line today held Yale's numbers to a mere 69 yards rushing, and stopped the Elis dead on their one big chance of the day.

At the start of the third quarter, the Elis, six points behind, took the ball, and in seven plays moved it all the way to the Harvard six with a first down.

On the first play, Culolias, playing fine football all the way, broke through and caught fullback Connie Corelli for no gain. Then Bill Weber stopped Corelli for no gain, and the Elis, frustrated all afternoon on the ground, prepared to take to the air.

They never got there.

Before Bulldog quarterback Bob Brink could even fade back, Bill Meigs and Weber were on top of him, and the Elis were four yards further away from a touchdown, with one play left.

". . . It won the game"

Timmy Anderson, who doubles as a wrestler in the off season, and another standout all day and all fall, hurtled through caught the fading Brink and wrestled and pinned him back for a six yard loss, taking the ball away from him. While Culolias did an Indian dance around the referees, Harvard took over the ball and the ball game.

"The goal line stand was the thing. It won the game. Our line just knocked hell out of them," Coach Lloyd Jordan said afterwards.

But then, to show that they were not merely a defensive line, these men, Bill Weber, Bernie O'Brien, Culolias, Meigs, Jeff Coolidge, Anderson, and Joe Ross, opened holes for Captain Dick Clasby and John Culver for 84 yards all the way down the field.

Culver Carries Over