Apparently the Elis won the romantic sweepstakes as well that weekend. Normal parietal rules remained in force visiting ended when house dances were set to start, usually at 8:30. An experiment with a 9:00 ending time the year before had left "orchestras playing for a half hour to almost empty dance halls," The Crimson noted snidely.
An ad that week in The Crimson read: "Shafted? No Date? Ditto Charming Young Girl, ideal companion to share your misery on Saturday night, Yalie Preferred."
1970
RADCLIFFE'S REVENGE
In 1970, The Game itself seemed almost anticlimactic compared to the war of the sexes taking place at Harvard that weekend.
While Harvard men received free tickets to The Game by simply filling out an application, Radcliffe women were given no priority and had to buy the $7 tickets along with the public.
"It is just complete male chauvinism to think that Radcliffe girls would not be interested in going to a SPORTS event," said Marion C. Childs '73, in a Crimson article on the day before the game.
Other women agreed. "It puts the girls in the position of having to go as dates or not at all," said a Radcliffe student.
Harvard officials argued that they couldn't handle processing admissions for both Harvard and Radcliffe students, so the men got priority.
"We don't have the facilities to handle the boys, much less the girls," said Harvard Ticket Manager Gordon M. Page.
Harvard also tried to restrict women's ability to perform in the traditional a cappella events of the Game weekend. When the Yale Glee Club brought female members, the Harvard Glee Club was outraged.
"In my opinion, the Harvard-Yale Football Concert with all its traditions -- the type of music and the spirit of the weekend -- should be an all-male affair," said Harvard Glee Club President Haywood Torrence Jr. '71.
Torrence also argued that there was no place to house Yale's female singers, except with the Radcliffe Choral Society. He didn't want to be obligated to let the Choral Society sing, he said, and "we would rather sing alone than sing with the Radcliffe Choral Society.
When the Yale Club brought women despite Harvard's objections, the Harvard club protested during the concert and walked off stage at one point. Yale Glee Club members threatened that they wouldn't return to Cambridge for the next Harvard home Game. On the field, Harvard won, 14-12.