Today's Tidbit... There Was No Joy in Yaleville

Harvard and Yale will play for the 141st time this Saturday when they meet at Fenway Park, but this story concerns their 70th meeting, played in New Haven in 1953. Not everyone around the country could make it there for the game, so they made do wherever they lived.

The Yale and Harvard grads living in Chicagoland in 1953 traveled and read out-of-town newspapers, national magazines, and the alumni magazines of the day. Still, they would have hoped for some coverage of the upcoming Harvard-Yale ga...