1912 Harvard – Dartmouth Football Game Menu : Hotel Touraine Boston Massachusetts

In a barnburner, Harvard's Charles Brickley drop-kicking a field goal to beat Dartmouth 3-0 on November 16^th 1912. Dartmouth had almost no offense, but they got off a couple of failed 40-yard field goal attempts.

This rare four-page menu has a lovely image of women rooting for Harvard and Dartmouth on the cover, with pennants, plumed hats and fur stoles.  The supper menu is dated Saturday, November 16, 1912, and includes Harvard-Dartmouth ices ($0.35). Measures 8 5/8” x 6 3/8”.

The Hotel Touraine at the corner of Boylston and Tremont Streets in Boston was built in 1897 as one of the most luxurious hotels in the city. Designed by the local firm of Winslow and Wetherell, the Jacobean Revival style building commands the well-trafficked corner opposite the Boston Common. Early articles described the hotel as “a large and sumptuously equipped house, with internal decorations in the style of the Chateau de Blois (a French chateau). Winslow and Wetherell appeared to have been inspired by the Louis XII wing of the Chateau, as many design elements of the hotel closely resemble it. The hotel was advertised as having 350 rooms valued at $2 a night up to $3 a night for a room with a private bath. Separate men and women’s parlors, a library, and elevator service made the hotel desirable for the upper-class Bostonians and visitors to the bustling Downtown area. The hotel’s rich clientele eventually began frequenting the larger hotels near Copley Square and the stature of the Touraine slipped with a changing Downtown character. By the 1960s, the hotel closed and was converted to apartments.