Word: balle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winthrop exhibited a porous defense and an inability to move the ball on offense. Its most sustained drive reached the Davenport 15, mostly via the air, when the final whistle sounded. Harvey Thayer was Winthrop's most effective ground gainer...
...pages 37 and 40 you will find cheers and jeers enough to goose any ball team this side of Palo Alto. The poets laureate of Bow Street usually turn out pretty priceless stuff, and this is some of it. Scattered elsewhere in the program are reams of strange pictures, and several short A. A. News-like articles which all have the good quality of not being obvious at first. One of the best features of any parody is its subltety; the Lampoon has ably met this requirement. And if you want to know how the Harvard-Yale gridiron rivalry began...
...break in the game came with ten minutes to go. Harvard took the ball after Yale missed a field goal attempt, and drove to a score in 13 plays. Struck faked, spun, and cracked off tackle for twenty yards; Macdonald ran for more; and with the ball on the nine, Foley charged into his right tackle, faked, and cut outside to score standing up. Chief Boston lifted a kick through snow, sleet, rain, and mud, and it was all over. The tired Yale team never came back...
...superb line. They had big, skilled backs. But Yale apparently didn't know about this, for they set to work and stopped the Harvard offense cold. When Jack Crickard opened the Harvard offense by running to the Yale seven, they threw the Crimson back and took the ball...
...climax came with less than a minute to play. Yale got the ball down to the Crimson's two-yard line. They tried three times over the center, and each time Captain Dolph Cheek and Coady, an inspired tackle, stopped the rushes. Then, with Yale in the huddle on fourth down the clock ran out on them. The final score...