But Harvard held well,
and the contest was a fairly even one for twenty minutes. There was an
anxious moment towards the end, when Gosse, for Harvard, muffed on the
date of the first production of 'The Tempest,' but before Yale could
frame another question the whistle blew.
"In the second half, Yale perceptibly weakened. It still showed
brilliant flashes of attack, but its defence was poor, especially
against Brooks's smashing questions on the Italian influences in
Milton's shorter poems. Harvard made its principal gains against
Burckhardt, who simply could not solve Winship's posers from Ben Jonson
and Beaumont and Fletcher. The Yale coaches finally took him out and
sent in Skinner, the best Elizabethan on the scrub team, but it was too
late to save the day. There were rumours after the game that Burckhardt
had broken training after the Princeton contest by going on a three
days' canoe trip up the Merrimac. That, however, does not detract from
the glory of Harvard's magnificent triumph."
_From the Boston "Herald" of October 9, 1937:_
"William J.
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