The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18

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BIZ JOE WILLIAMS

NEW YORK, Nov. 1s.-Not pre-
IN cisely the Oldest in history,
the Yale-Harvard football rivalry
still stands out as the most pictur-
esque and most dramatic in Amer
lea.
Broadly amusing to impious out
sideras the fact persists that neither
OF these teams recognizes a defeat
as such unless inflicted by the other.
Thus 1t is that Yale and Harvard
come up to their final game of the
season Saturday-the fifty-first OF
their series-as emotionally keyed
up as II they we're battling for ma
tional honors.
"A brief glance at their records is suFi-
gent TO show that this Is hardly the case.
and that from a sun-nofmal Dartmoutf.
team. Harvard was mastered by Army.
BOTH we're beaten by Brown. The cold
T Inaao 20 teenniclans rate them as average
Nevertheless there will be close to 70. 600
people Ia the Yale bowl when the two
TWAS line up for the kickoff This isn't
quite sell out. The fact is there was a
public sale Of tickets this year for tie first
m naa1e IN ace oeca.ae. The mixed wool com,
mingle with the royal raccoons
But 20 600 or even 10000, will set a sea-
son record Tor the east. and. considering
one thing and another, IL is an amazing
totaI II Is doubly amazing when you con-
slider the mediocrity Of the teams and the
absence OF the championship allure.
VOU hear the technicians scott:
Il Yale and Harvard? Why,
they would be pushovers for Mich
igan, Brown, Auburn or Southern
California. Those birds don't play
football"
Maybe not. But Yale and Harvard men.
oeIciously deluded. think they do and
tremendous gathering OF the loyalists.
whether the teams are titanic or terrible
MAKES makes little difference 1t is still the Blue
This is, Of course. splendid thing. as
noelities IN sport are measured thing
tnat rejects credit On the universities and
After ALL. tradition and ivy clad
stadium walls seem to represent a more
s sectt Investment than point-a-minute
oox Office purposes. I have noticed that
when the point-a-minuters cease to click
there Is nobody in the stands
Except among the undergrads and the
old grads there is no great interest in
which team wins Saturdays game, and
probably rates bit higher on the Strength
of its come back against Holy Cross last
week after the, crushing rout by Army
Ihat the come back was organized mainly
by reserves would seem to make the
Crimson prospects all the brighter.
u
VALE won the annual game last
Il year, when Able. Booth executed
a drop kick from the 14-yard line
after one of his long passes, thrown
to Barres, had put the team in
scoring position.
The kick came in the last three
minutes of play and for that reason
1t was touched with the magic of
drama.
It was the last game for Booth and like
wise the last game for Barry Wood the
great Harvard quarter back. Dating back
70 freshman days, when their personal
rivalry started Booth had never won a
decision over Wood
The gods waited until the very last to
deal the midget in Blue a winning hand
Ihey were in a perverse mood that day
When the game ended. the brilliant Wood
was wallowing in the mud on his own
goal line with three Yale men sitting on
his neck, position in which even his Phi
beta Kappa key could do him little good