The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-19

Cambridge - or Boston - was the \ Mecca for thousands of lovers of foot ball today. All trails led to Har- wards great stadium. Football fans came by train, auto and trolley from < every point of the compass, eager, expectant and prepared to yell out I their lungs for the Blue or the Crl1n- son. They falunted the colors of thelr 8favorites in banners, pennants, arm I and hatbands and ribbons. Thls was "a gala day in "Beantown-
 Every Seat Sold
 Harvard officials announced several days ago that every seat TOT the eaniG 1niII faccommodate some 65,0OO, ana It was a foregone conclusion that every set seet would be filled when the game got < under way. o.. x1o
 For the first time since 1916 Yale s went into the game favored co VIII, < The Bulldogs, under Tad Jones anu Y ted by their fighting captain, Nal Al $ drich, were out to put a stop to liar. wards winning streak, when staFteGi U \ in 1919 with a 10 to 5 victory anu anu l was continued at New Haven lase a X wear. when the Crimson eleven won ' fard-fought game, to 0, thanks to e inc scoring of three field goals against 2 the plucky Yale team: , than
 Yale is stronger this season [rra,l Is,, she has been since before the war, \ and the fact that Harvard fell beLore < little Centre and then bowed in defeat to Princeton detraoted rom o71, ner
  e against the New Haven eleven.
 Both Teams Ready
 # Roth teams were especially pointed S for today's game. Each year the liar q ward and Yale coaches start the sea \ son with victory m tnls oiiT Tr,,a s thew point for Princeton and several other games of less import, but the collision between the Bulldogs anu \ Jof1n Harvard is all that really mat . +ers to the coaches of either eleven, after all is said and done.
 Es-- The game today was the fortieth ! Between the rival schools tne sete tIes' was started in 1875, but, unlike the I 8vaJe-Princeton series, it did not con +inue without Interruption. There 1 were breaks in 1877, 1885 and lSSs' | but each time relations were renew 4{ cd after one season. A disagreemenI v growing out of the game or ISS4 leu lE fo the calling off of games in the next < two seasons, but after an agreerierf i,etar nf { 1s96-97 the series was resumed anq { continued unbroSen until the tune & ol the World War. No games were Hi nlayed in 1917 or 1918.
 Yale has a. big lead over Harvard 1n i victories, the count at the present 2. time standing twenty-three VlcSories k for Yale, eleven for Harvaro, ane ti. ttse Fl fife games. In the early days Of th1s Ef series a Harvard victory was unusual \ so much so that up to 1910 the Crim- 3 son had won only five games or thirty
 
 \ three. An idea of the way the series f went may be gained from the fact z that Harvards victories were scored !: in 1875, 1890, 1898. 1901 and 1908.
 Tide Turned in 1908
 The tide began to turn in lSOS, a1ter sj vale had won six successive victories over the Crimson. Harvard won II, Il 1905, tied the games of 1910 ana tyl 4-and followed with four successive vlc- | tories. Of the last ten games liar ward has won six, tied two ana lost two. Quite a difference from the old days! 4,,. winner though the Ellis failed to score a Under the rules prevailing that sea a son s'in a game, otherwise a tie: the team scoring four or more satetles less than its opponents shall win the
 Last year, with the greatest croWd that ever witnessed a football game m this country up to that time looking on. Harvard defeated Yale by to o < though the losers went ooWn 70 \ glorious defeat, as they had been looked upon as easy prey Tor the DIE |. Crimson steam roller