Word: bulldog
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crimson quintet will attempt to silence the Bulldog's growl this evening when the Yale five invades the Hemenway court. That growl will be none the less ferocious because the Eli quintet has been considerably maltreated of late by the Intercollegiate League teams...
They coined the phrase "Yale Spirit," as synonymous of unconquerable determination, and made the Bulldog, an animal of more courage than refinement the symbol of the college...
...George Frederick Gundelfinger has at last advanced upon Harvard and the "vaunt-couriers" of his prolific pen have arrived in the shape of that now famous pamphlet, "Why the Bulldog is Losing His Grip." From a hasty glance at his opening fire-works, it appears that "Gundelfingery" has forced its way to the fore against tremendous odds. With a complete spy system among New York publishers, an underground railway of insidious rumors at the college, and a stiff resistance among the college papers, Yale managed to keep his great book, "The New Fraternity", still in manuscript; in manuscript until...
...Yale play as might have been expected after the Army contest. Maryland invaded the Bowl with a strong eleven which proceeded to cross the Blue goal line twice before the first period had ended. Yale was dumbfounded. Soon, however, the visitors' attack began to break and the Bulldog eleven awoke to the task before it. in the second half, showing another great comeback as decisive as the one against the Army. Yale launched her offensive and ultimately won 16 to 14. But the Blue defense throughout the game was weak and Tad Jones therefore spent the next week in strengthening...
Against Brown the Crimson stumbled and fell yet the game offers no criterion by which the comparative strength of Harvard and Yale may be judged. True the Bulldog trounced Brown 21 to 0 while that same Brown team defeated Harvard 20 to 7. But Fisher kept Hubbard, Coburn, Jenkins, Lee, McGlone, and Cheek out of the contest, and its result would certainly have been different had they been in. It is doubtful it the Brown center could have blocked Pfaffmann's disastrous drop kick had Hubbard been in the Crimson line. The score of the game, however, proves at least...