The glamor boy of the Crimson eleven in the mid-1930s was fullback Vernon Struck, who back then took the snap from center. Struck's sleight-of-hand with the pigskin earned him the sonorous sobriquet of "The Magnificent Faker." "Struck would fake you right out of the stadium," Cavileer recalls. "One day I ran into Dick Bennick, who was a manager back in 1930 and he said: 'I sit with my friends back in the end zone and I don't have any problems seeing the ball but I never could follow the plays when old Struck was around.'"

Over the years, Cavileer has been assisted in the press box by a band of alumni devoted to the cause of Harvard football. His right-hand man for many years was Hamilton Holton "Holty" Wood, who was captain of the J.V. football team in 1939. Wood's maternal grandfather was one of the thirteen men who got together and donated the Yale Bowl. Wood's brother operated the Stadium's scoreboard and his daughter Ceelie Wood now types out the play-by-play charts for members of the press.

Other long-time statisticians are Bob Paine, a fixture since 1946, former baseball captain Bob Fulton, and Rufus Walker, who retired three years ago. Albie Pratt kept track of participation charts for Cavileer until he was appointed assistant Secretary of the Navy during President Eisenhower's administration.

One technical innovation in the Harvard pressbox which makes Cavileer beam with pride is the two-colored play-by-play sheets produce right after each quarter. Cavileer and Wood had to go down to the A.B. Dick Company headquarters to consult on a way of producing two colors on one carbon. "It was a great undertaking," Cavileer recalls solemnly, "No other school does it. Princeton tried to do it a couple of years ago and failed. The difference is in having people who are really interested in their work."

So Cavileer will watch yet another Harvard-Yale game today. He will watch The Game as he always has--at the center of the clattering cockpit of typewriters and carbon machines.

The whole time he will still be grinning his Cheshire Cat grin