Dear

Way We Were…

 

The Newtown Bee receives many letters to the editor, but it very seldom receives a letter addressed to the “Way We Were” column.

Recently, William D. Downing of Newtown replied to a November 18, 1904, excerpt in the November 12 edition of the paper, as follows:

“Dear Way We Were Column,

“I see that Arthur T. Nettleton will attend the Yale-Harvard football game in New Haven next Saturday. Let’s look into the future and see what may happen.

 “The 25th Yale-Harvard football game (sometime in the far distant future it will simply be called The Game) is scheduled to be played Saturday, November 19, 1904 at Yale Field. (It is said that by 1914 there will be a new stadium that will be called The Yale Bowl.)

“In weather nice, an autumnal dream, there will be as many as 35,000 people, a great number of whom will arrive in six special trains from Grand Central Station, including 54 private cars.

“If Mr Nettleton keeps a sharp eye open he will see President Roosevelt’s daughter, Alice, and Vice President-elect Charles Fairbanks.

“Harvard will be captained by Right Halfback Dan Hurley, called ‘a team in himself’ by The Boston Globe. Yale will be captained by Right Tackle Jim Hogan, a three times All-American and an honor student.

“My prediction: YALE 12, HARVARD 0.”

Mr Downing, a Yale graduate, obtained his information about the November 19, 1904, Yale-Harvard game from a book about the Harvard-Yale football rivalry, The Game.