Too Warm for Flasks . . .

Yalies' handkerchiefs, that lay idle when Harvard's were waving vigorously, were busy earlier in the afternoon wiping brows in the 65-degree heat. Eli fans found the day too warm for football, meaning too warm for frequent use of flasks.

The Yale statistical staff found incentive to nip on theirs, however, after Jeff Coolidge and Alan Culbert nailed the Bulldog's coffin with timely pass interceptions. Townie Boy Scouts, who did messenger work in the press box, were surprised to dig those crazy canteens.

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Early in the fourth quarter, one team came to the sidelines to greet another team coming off the field. The team leaving the game was Coolidge. The Crimson's outstanding center and linebacker suffered a head injury, but Coach Lloyd Jordan said, "A little rest and he'll be all right." This is good news for hockey coach Cooney Welland, who has in Coolidge one of the top defensemen in the East.

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Jordan left the field on the shoulders of his team. If the teams were midwestern instead of Ivy League, his rival mentor might well have left the Bowl riding an alumni rail. Both coaches faced a barrage of post-game questions, but two other queries were more pertinent.

In one, John Culver asked Bob Hardy rhetorically, "How could you be happier?" In the other, a knee-high New Haven autograph-seeker inquired of a sophomore in a top-coat, "Are you a football player?" The sophomore was Bill Meigs.

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Harvey Popell, out for four games with a virus infection, played a lot of good defensive end and caught a pass for the Crimson. Another varsity end, Bob Cochran, got his first minutes of the season near the end of the contest. The game Junior had twice broken his leg in practice this fall.

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Yale end and track star Larry Reno, who was a hero in the Princeton game, played only the last down of Saturday's contest. If Coach Jordan Olivar had his manager ready to go at end for extra points, the Elis didn't seem to need him against the Crimson.

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Athletic Director Thomas D. Bolles commented, "I think we looked stronger all the way: we played well all season not one ball game you could call bad." Bolles added, "That goal line stand did it again."

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The Crimson's modest fullback, Culver, stated, "Our line was the difference today." Meigs, who led the forward wall in exploding the Pollch Myth, commented, "We've got the best line coach in the country--Ted Schmitt."

Culver also mentioned that signal-caller Jerry Marsh had "awful good football sense." But, according to Jordan, "It was the line that called Culver's touchdown play. They kept saying, 'We could do it,' before the fullback launched his 34-yard sprint."

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After the game, the Yale coach implied that his eleven chose to give its peak performance against Princeton, and could have won Saturday if it had saved the effort for that instead. The rest of the 65,000 spectators can draw their own inferences from the game, however.