Egg in Your Beer

Even the real oldtimors had to admit it beat everything they had ever seen. For color, girls and noise there had never been any equal. The All-Ivy League weekend was the world's greatest blast--it made the Dartmouth Winter Carnival look like James Madison Junior High on its annual field day.

It had all started when the Harvard-Princeton baseball game was rained out. There had been a lot of rainouts that season, and with exams coming up Princeton complained about having no open dates.

And as one member of the Crimson team was heard to say: "who wants to go to Princeton." Tiger players were rumored to have voiced the same sentiments about visiting Cambridge. But Princeton was in contention for the league title and the game had to be played.

Caldwell Titcomb, a onetime major league umpire, insists that the idea came from a member of Brooks Brothers who talked it over with the welcoming chairman of the Blue Key. It was a natural, they decided. Why not have Harvard play Princeton in New Haven after the regularly scheduled Yale-Princeton game. They could call it the All-Ivy Weekend, elect a queen, and hold an enormous formal that night in the Yale Bowl. Proceeds could go towards Yale's spring practice, expenses for Princeton's visiting alumni committees, and trainfare for the Harvard Band--which would play "God Save the King" at the Queen's coronation. A furtive attempt was made to transfer the Heptagonal track meet to New Haven so that all the other Ivy schools could participate. But that move ended when it was learned that not only was the meet already over, but Army, Navy, and Brown were also Heptagonal members.

Actually, the only protest came from Dartmouth. The Daily Dartmouth ran an editorial protesting Big Three Snobbery, terming baseball "a game that little boys can play," and calling for President John Sloan Dickey to resign from the Ivy League because of its high pressure athletic policies. The Indians' Green Key joined in, blasting the weekend as organized mid-Western "rah-rah collegiatism."

When rain was forecast--Harvard's Doctor Wallace Howell was hired to prevent it. After a bitter dispute, Howell, in a Yale Flying Club plane piloted by a Princeton graduate, seeded the skies, and the weekend was ready to start.

Countless thousands of straw hatted undergraduates swarmed into New Haven Friday afternoon, accompanied by Smith, Wellesley, and Vassar girls. The first night everyone sang college songs and went home happy. At the field the next day things went along fairly smoothly. The Yale pitcher and captain allowed a run when Charley, the Princeton Tiger, yelled "Skull and Bones" causing him to balk. A group of Lampoon fools paraded around in beanies and T shirts saying, "I go to Harvard U."

Princeton also lost both games.