November 22: ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
ON THIS DAY IN 1914, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “NEW HAVEN, CONN., Nov. 21 (A.P.) — Harvard’s football juggernaut crushed the Yale eleven by a score of 36 to 0 in the Blue ‘bowl’ here this afternoon while 71,000 spectators watched the gridiron rout in stupefied amazement. The Crimson machine rushed up and down the field almost at will, scoring in every one of the four periods of play and, when the sixty minutes of battle had elapsed, had succeeded in rolling up the largest number of points ever registered against an Eli eleven. With the exception of the 1885 Yale victory of 48 to 0, it was the greatest score ever made in the thirty-four games played since 1875. The one-sided score fails to give the slightest inkling of the thrilling scope of the play, of the remarkable strategy and individual brilliancy with which the game fairly bristled. Surrounded by more than a third of a mile of towering tiers of humanity, the two elevens struggled back and forth the length of the gridiron, every second or third play bringing the thousands to their feet, so intense was the excitement and spectacular the play.”
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ON THIS DAY IN 1938, the Eagle reported, “BERLIN (AP) — The United States has presented a new note to Germany asking formal assurance that the decree of ousting Jews from business enterprises, part of the Nazi regime’s sweeping anti-Jewish campaign, does not apply to Jews holding American citizenship. The note was presented to the Foreign Office late yesterday, it was disclosed today, as Nazi plans for extending the anti-Jewish campaign through the winter are developed. The American communication said the Washington government assumed that the decree did not apply to American citizens and requested a reply as to whether this assumption was correct. Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels and other Nazi officials have stated specifically that foreign Jews did not come under the decree. At the same time, Nazi concentration camps swelled with new arrests today and a ‘stigma’ was placed on Jews, United Press said. The press asserted that the anti-Semitic campaign would be introduced shortly in Slovakia as an autonomous province of Czechoslovakia. The ‘Nuremberg Jew laws’ will be adopted there.”
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