Wood won again in 1930. He threw two touchdown passes to end A. W. Huguley, as Harvard triumphed, 13 to 0. The strong Crimson line, paced by captain Ben Ticknor, bottled up Booth almost completely and, the CRIMSON reported, made him "look like an average back, flashy but unconvincing."

But Booth wreaked his revenge in 1931. The high-flying Crimson, sporting a 14-13 win over Army, went in the 1931 meeting undefeated and united. The game had barely started when Crickard of Harvard raced all the way to the Yale seven-yard line. As the Stadium crowd waited for the first Crimson touchdown, in the expected rout, the Bulldogs stiffened and held.

See-sawing back and forth, the two teams went in the fourth quarter still tied, 0 to 0. Booth completed a pass deep in Crimson territory, and seconds later drop-kicked the ball between the uprights to give Yale a 3-0 margin, which soon became the final score. After three years of struggles, Booths had finally seen his Elis defeat a Harvard eleven.

In the eventful history of the series, the 1951 encounter also stands out as a memorable thriller. Yale came from behind to tie the Crimson, 21 to 21, late in the fourth quarter. The varsity's three scores all came in dramatic fashion--a fourth down, finger-tip catch of a pass by end, Paul Crowlcy, an 84-yard run by halfback John Ederer, and a pass interception by Fritz Drill.

As sophomore quarterback Ed Molloy, who gave up Drill's interception soon after replacing injured Yale starter Jim Ryan, grew disheartened, Eli coach Herman Hickman advised, "You pitch them out, kid, and I'll start heading out of town. We've got nothing to lose now--not even a reputation." Molloy then completed four out of five passes for 65 yards and the tying touchdown.

Possibly the best modern Yale team ever to take the field humiliated the varsity, 42 to 14 in 1956. The Bulldogs became Ivy champions, and that season scored 40 points against Penn, 42 against Princeton, and 42 aginst Harvard in their last three games. The unstoppable backfield of Dean Loucks, Dennis McGill, Al Ward, and Steve Ackerman ran wild over a Crimson defense that did well to hold the final count below 60.

Since the entire first-line Yale backfield graduated in 1957, the Crimson might have had reason to hope for a better fate that fall. But quarterback Dick Winterbauer, who completed nine of 12 passes for 165 yards and three touchdowns in only 30 minutes of playing time, led the Blue to a 54-0 stomping over the injury-riddled varsity. Never before had a Crimson team been so humbled by Yale; it set the stage for revenge.

Last year, the varsity roared back from this, its most crushing defeat to score a 28-0 win over the hapless Eli eleven. Quarterback Charlie Ravenel, a brilliant play-caller and runner all day long, gained 105 yards on 16 carries and put the Crimson ahead to stay by going over from the five as the gun sounded to end the first half. Chet Boulris, Larry Repsher, and Albie Cullen, all of whom will see action tomorrow, scored second-half touchdowns as Harvard won The Game for the first time in four seasons.

Yale has won 43 of the 75 contests played in the series; Harvard has taken 25, and there have been seven ties. Today, the teams are more evenly matched than at any other time since 1954. The Crimson has not yet completely made up for the 1957 debacle, and for the many seniors on the squad--including Boulris, Cullen, captain Hank Keohane, Jerry Weidler, Dave Cappiello, and Sam Halaby among the starters--this afternoon's contests is the last chance to erase some nagging memories