The hearty football fan who has endured the elements all season once again found himself at odds with the weather today. All the combined efforts of the 60,000 Harvard and Yale fans who were due to arrive by today could not keep away the inevitable wet. Today's variety was not equal to the torrents which saturated the Eli rooters during the Cornell game, and the Crimson fans during the Columbia and Princeton games, but it was of the most annoying variety--a soft mixture of snow and rain, finally changing to snow at game time.
This has probably been the worst weather that Eastern football has ever experienced. The only "good" game day was last Saturday, but as far as the rooters here are concerned it could have poured--Princeton defeated the Elis, 13 to 0, and Brown upset Harvard, 14 to 6.
Last night, the weather was cold and dry at Yale, but the campus itself was very much warm and wet as large crowds lined the fraternity bars off York Street. Although Yale's President had asked that the state liquor laws be observed, it seemed that anyone who could afford thirty-five cents for a beer, was served, regardless of his ago.
But if many Harvard men were distressed by this morning's weather, many more ran into even more trouble with the New Haven police. All cars which were parked adjacent to certain meters between seven and nine a.m. were towed away by trucks from five different garages. To claim one's car cost four dollars. The parking problem in Cambridge was never like this.
If anyone has not found his car yet, the police department has recommended he call the Department at STate 7-4141 and ask for the records department. They'll be happy to help you.
The wet snow was a poor background for the game, but a group of energetic Yalies from Berkeley and Calhoun Colleges gave a very entertaining, if not varsity-like, football performance this morning on the wide green between the Colleges. Not content with the orthodox football uniforms, these players adorned themselves in bright pajamas, bermuda shorts, sweat pants, stocking hats. At half-time a band, led by a swordsman paraded out for a small show. No one much cared but the score at the half was 6 to 6.
This was the 72nd time the two teams competed against each other in football, with the Elis previously having won 40 times and the Crimson 24. There were seven ties. The Crimson, making it a habit of upsetting the favored Blue, had won the last two games. All the seniors on the present Harvard team were looking for their third straight victory today, but a fellow named Phil Tarasovic was sure trying hard to stop them.
The last time the two teams met in the Bowl the weather was not nearly so bad, but nevertheless it was trying on the fans. There was such a thick haze in the skies, that at game time it was difficult to see the other end of the field. Harvard won that game 13 to 0.
Through an exclusive agreement with a national airlines, this edition of the Crimson was published above New Haven. While a plane hovered over the Bowl, the results of the game as well as a photograph, were radioed to it. At the end of the game, the plane landed at the New Haven airport and the printed papers were sent by car to the Yale campus. A simultaneous distribution is taking place at Harvard.
This was the Crimson's third edition of the day -- the first being a regular New Haven paper, and the second, a parody of the Yale Daily News.
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