Sport: Crisis

Last week the 1939 attack of U. S. foot ball fever reached its crisis with many a delirious game:

> At Cambridge, 52,000 fans, sitting in an ice-caked horseshoe, had hot & cold chills as they watched Harvard and Yale fight it out in the traditional Big Game of the East. No title was at stake. Undefeated Cornell had already clinched the mythical Ivy League championship. Ducky Pond had admitted that this year's Yale team was the worst he ever coached. Harvard had been beaten by Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, Princeton.

Yet the shivering spectators would not have traded seats with any sun-baked fan...

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