On January 4, 1925, the first Intercollegiate Cross Word
Puzzle Tournament was held in the auditorium of the Hotel Roosevelt
in New York City.  With literally thousands of cheering fans in the
audience, Yale beat Harvard, Princeton, and the City College of New
York.  Harvard was represented by two distinguished alumni, the
columnist Heywood Broun and dramatist Robert E. Sherwood, while poet
Stephen Vincent Benet and Jack Thomas made up the Yale team.
	The contest was held in rounds as each word was tackled
individually.  First Broun won a rounds by correctly guessing the name
of a German poet in five letters (Heine).  Then Sherwood backed him up
with a seven-letter word meaning "honest in intention" (sincere).  A
foul play was called when the judge, Ruth Hale (Mrs. Heywood Broun in
private life), sat beside Broun.  Toward the end of the ninth inning,
each team had contributed to the completion of the puzzle with the
exception of one word.  The decisive entry was defined as "slight
convex curve in the shaft of a column".  In a moment of inspiration,
the Yake team correctly answered "entasis".  The crowd broke out into
an old Eli hymn of victory as Broun called for a rematch.

		-- p. 99, "What's Gnu?" by Michelle Arnot