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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Handicapped by a mid-year examination lay-off, the Crimson fell before an unexpected Eli assault in the two teams' first meeting at New Haven last month. With renewed confidence after trouncing the exalted Indians, the Cantabs are set to wipe out the stain of that defeat tonight...

Author: By Sheffield West, | Title: Varsity Basketeers to Seek Revenge Tonight as Blue Hoopsters Threaten | 3/12/1938 | See Source »

PRINCETON, N. J., March 9--The Princeton swimming team, whose only defeat this season was at the hands of the Harvard mermen, tonight put Yale out of the Eastern Intercollegiate championship race by nosing out the Elis 38-37 in the Nassau pool...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tigers Edge Eli Mermen | 3/10/1938 | See Source »

Bone-setters were crushed to a 56-38 defeat yesterday by the J. V. basketball team. It was the quintet from the Massachusetts College of Osteopathy that met defeat at the hands of the Crimson five led by the score-making of Lee Bird and Bill Humes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JAYVEES CRUSH BONE-SETTERS | 3/9/1938 | See Source »

Despite the fact that the Crimson five can in new way threaten the Big Green's league supremacy, tonight's clash at 7:30 o'clock in the Indoor Athletic Building will be the culmination of the Varsity's anticipation to meet Dartmouth again after their narrow defeat by the Indians earlier in the season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Indians Slated to Repeat Over Crimson Five Tonight | 3/9/1938 | See Source »

Saturday night's defeat at the hands of the surprising Princeton hoopmen by a 37-20 margin definitely wiped out the Crimson quintet's aspirations for a share of the Ivy League championship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Vanquishes Sextet as Princeton Downs Quintet | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

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