On the phone list were AP. UPI. The New York Times. The New Haven Register, WRKO. "All the heavies," recalled Powers. "We were really putting the massive hurt to New Haven."

Both AP and UPI were skeptical and called back. Beach and Powers posed as Yale staffers confirmed the report and told the wire version that Yale President Kingman Brewater had told them to have anyone at anytime call him to confirm the report.

"This was our finest moment," said Powers. "AP tell for its and called everyone they could think of at Yale. It was 6:10 a.m."

The next year, Yale sought revenge. On Thursday night. November 19, Harvard students opened their doors to find Extra editions of The Crimson announcing that the Harvard Corporation had chosen a new President to replace retiring President Nathan Pusey '28.

Their choice? Presidential adviser Daniel P. Moynihan, professor of Education on leave.

Like their counterparts in New Haven, many Harvard students were taken in.

One abashed student telephoned his parents. Others went from room to room, bemoaning the future of the University, or praising the Corporation for its hard-headedness.

Particularly co-agent were the responses the Yale editors elicited from various Harvard officials on the merits of the choice.

"His church is not my church," they had President Pusey saying, "but we both pray to the same God."

"It's a helluva mess," said John T. Dunlop, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

That night the phones at The Crimson rang off their books with requests for more information.

That same year, 1970. The Crimson planned to put out it special game issue of the paper for distribution at Yale even though the game was being played at Harvard this year.

By a fortunate twist of fate, the editors of Cambridge's only breakfast table daily were standing on a New Haven street corner when a truck carrying the day's editions of The Daily News pulled up.

"You guys with the News?" asked the driver. The Crimson thieves replied to the affirmative, got the stuck of papers and promptly placed them in the trunk of their car.

Then they went about the business of distributing the Crimsons door-to-door. When they were through, the wily reporters went back to the News building. Ben Beach, taking his cue from Mohammed Ali, wrote a note on Crimson stationary and placed in on the front door of the News office.