Word: bulldog
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...team in the country to beat Yale or Harvard or Princeton and the others of the great teams whose shadow once fell so far across the autumn fields. Therefore, "I-o-way", is happy. It is something, after all, to have come out of Iowa City and rubbed the "Bulldog's" nose in the dust of his own field. Philadelphia Public Ledger...
...result of the game is by no means a foregone conclusion. The Elis have improved greatly since their first attempt to win over the Crimson two weeks ago and if Coach Claflin's men do not show far better form than they did in the first contest, a Bulldog victory may be expected. The Yale men have more at stake tonight than the Crimson players. A defeat for the University will not mean the loss of the series for the Crimson; a Yale defeat, however, will mean just this for Coach Wanamaker's men. And this factor alone will...
...same standard. Even although the Elis were defeated in the first game, the contest was unsatisfactory from the Crimson standpoint on account of the ragged team-work displayed throughout the major portion of the struggle. Coach Claffin aims to have his men overcome the Bulldog this Saturday in the same sort of style they took the Tiger into camp...
...view of this situation it is astonishing to find that the "Yale News" still clings to the idea of the bulldog. Can it be that certain elements in the University view with regret the metamorphosis of their institution? Are they unwilling to see Yale become the center of "intellectual activity in the field of art and literature...
...would seem an easy matter for the properly constituted authorities to selects a more fitting epitome of the new day. The power of tradition, however, has proved itself unexpectedly strong. To be sure the "Yale News" has gone so far as to hint that the bulldog be equipped with glasses, but this is at best but an unsatisfactory compromise. Certainly the situation must be faced, but--as the "Yale News" so aptly remarks--"how close an analogy the bulldog bears to the modern undergraduate is a question which the future must decide...