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NEWS LAMENTS FUTILITY OF EARLY SEASON TRIUMPHS
"Ever since 1916, Yale has opened the season with bright prospects, good material, and the applause of Eastern sporting editors...Black Novembers attest the futility of pre-season triumphs."
The sentences quoted above appeared in the editorial columns of the Yale Daily News after the opening game of the 1921 football season when Yale had defeated Bates 28-0. At Cambridge in the following November, Yale was defeated by, Harvard by a score of 10-3.
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