Six times Yale reached the Harvard 30-yard line and three times the Yale attack penetrated within 10 yards of the Crimson goal.

The Game that year should be commemorated as a "crowning glory of that team which would not be daunted by jeers, criticism, overwhelming odds, and even defeats," Harvard supporters crowed.

Even The Crimson's SPORTS staff took it all back.

"We withdraw all those linotyped cracks we have made at Harvard, and if you boys will come around to the composing room we will put on an exhibition of swallowing hot lead," said Neal O'Hara '15, for the Crimson.

1950

A HARVARD RIOT

In 1950's Game, the mayhem on the field was nothing compared to what was going on off it.

About 3,500 students rioted the night before the Harvard-Yale contest, in a drunken demonstration that began at 11:10 p.m. outside a neighborhood bar called Cronin's. The Crimson reported that "according to University police chief Alvin R. Randall, it made last year's Princeton fracas look like 'peanuts.'" Cambridge police called it "the biggest disturbance since the war."

Only the Cambridge police and a light rain quenched the wild revellers.

Two Harvard students were fined $10 and $5, respectively, for their part in the riot. "Eight other Harvard men and two visitors from Yale also had their cases put on file," The Crimson reported.

Judge Arthur P. Stone, class of 1892, had to rebuke the rambunetious youngsters, noting that "this is no laughing matter."

What happened on the field was a mere anticlimax. The Crimson said. That morning, people "stretched, rolled out of bed, turned to each other and said, 'who the hell are you?'"

After the wild night, Elis wiped out the Crimson, 14-6. The Crimson, which had only one victory that season, was crushed. One player "had been gunning for that big one -- Yale," hoping that "hard work" would win The Game.

The contest began with a three-period scoreless tie, which Yale broke with a touchdown one minute and 52 seconds into the fourth period. Then the Elis scored another.

Then, The Crimson reported, "Lowenstein's second long pass was complete to O'Neill on the 37, and on the next play Dave Warden with a thirty yard pass went all the way down the right side line for a Harvard touchdown at ten minutes and 17 seconds of the last period. Dick Hyde missed the extra point."