The Crimson (11-27, 7-9 Ivy) earned a 6-5 victory over the Bears (8-29, 5-11) in the day’s opener but went on to drop the final game in a 22-9 slugfest.
But another shenanigan of 1961 also lives on, at least in Harvard-Yale lore. The front-page story of a prank issue proclaimed that President John F. Kennedy ’40 had made the last-minute decision to attend The Game.