Socializing was not interrupted by The Game itself, as many 'Cliffies accompanied Harvard men to watch the game unfold.

"Girls, the Harvard Stadium was simply filled with thousands of those wonderful Harvards this afternoon," wrote "Lavinia Dirndl;" in a guest column for The Crimson. "You've never seen so many crinkly tweeds in your life."

Even the heavens were aligned for the highlight of the fall term as a solar eclipse took place about 90 minutes before kickoff.

Amid a light drizzle, the Harvard 11 got off to a hot start against the Elis, with two touchdowns in the first period.

Quickly, however, Yale stormed back on the strength of its organization and a lucky wind, and "a heavy, well-coached, poised Eli team" came away with a 27-14 win.

But there was more riding on The Game of 1946 than a weekend of parties, an exciting rivalry or even an Ivy League championship. The return of The Game--like the return of official, varsity football altogether-meant a return to the normalcy of the pre-war days.

In that Monday's Crimson, J. Anthony Lewis '48 called Yale weekend a throwback to the 1920s, citing "Cars blocking streets half a mile up Massachusetts Avenue...crowds jamming every restaurant, bar, cafeteria and drugstore around the Square...flags flapping in the breeze up Mount Auburn Street, wrapping themselves around the flagpoles."

In an editorial, The Crimson staff framed The Game in terms of a war fought and won, and a future too unknown to tackle.

"The last time Harvard and Yale met together on a field called Soldier's 1941, and Pearl Harbor stood in the wings waiting for her December cue," The Crimson wrote.

"Somehow, knowing that the ancient feud has been renewed with all its tradition-hoaried trappings furnishes a sense of continuity with the world that went before which is strangely comforting."