Word: balling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Center halfback Tom Gleason tallied for Eliot on a penalty shot with ten minutes gone in the second half to tie the score at 1 to 1. A few minutes later, Ralph Hellmold, right inside, took the ball from 25 yards out, eluded two Calhoun defenders, and fired past the goalie for the deciding point...
Football games at New Haven are hearty experiences. Yale is an educational Xanadu: the Harkness bells play the 1812 Overture; heelers for the Yale Daily News (once, the oldest college daily) roll a gigantic soccer ball around the Old Campus; Mellons sprinkle millions into the University coffers; secret societies practice strange rites...
...Crimson quarterback, Charlie Kinney. He threw three touchdown passes during the afternoon and directed the Yardlings to their best offensive display of the season. Completing 17 out of 34 passes and handing off deceptively, the big quarter-back took complete charge every time the Crimson had the ball...
...Yalies were fooled by Kinney's ball-handling, but in the second half they rolled through the previously strong Crimson defenses. Jud Calkins, a doubtful starter because of an injury, almost stole the show from Kinney and piloted Yale back into the game...
...sawing back and forth, the two teams went in the fourth quarter still tied, 0 to 0. Booth completed a pass deep in Crimson territory, and seconds later drop-kicked the ball between the uprights to give Yale a 3-0 margin, which soon became the final score. After three years of struggles, Booths had finally seen his Elis defeat a Harvard eleven...