Word: delta
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first Harvard-Yale tilt was played on November 13, 1875, 58 years after "The Battle of the Delta", the first instance of football or anything skin to it ever played by undergraduates in the University. This first meeting of the two universities, which were to form an alliance of friendly rivalry for so many years, was held at New Haven. The game was played under Rugby rules with a Rugby ball. Owing to the comparative newness of the Elis, the Crimson players completely out-passed their opponents, winning by our field goals and four touchdowns to nothing. In these days...
Previous to this first Yale encounter football at Harvard had already experienced one rise and fall. The Freshman-Sophomore struggles, developing from the first "Battle of the Delta", continued through the 1804's and the next decade of the '50's, growing tougher as the years progressed, until the first Monday of the fall term became literally a "Bloody Monday," although the day may not have been so named until much later. And so, on July 2, 1860, the sport was quietly and peacefully slain by the Faculty of the College...
Varsity. After years of rah-rah pictures, of sporting seniors in plaid pants with suites at the Ritz, of the prom girl, the fresh freshman, of cabalistic tortures in the basement of the Delta Nu house. of winning the game for dear old Dearold. comes a college picture in which real college boys, bedrooms, dining halls and bleachers are photographed, and as an accompaniment to which an authentic Princeton locomotive and the song "One Keg of Beer for the Four of Us," sung by authentic Princeton undergraduates, is recorded on a sound device...
...Back 21 156 5-8 Hebron Johnson, H. L. '31 Back 20 190 6 Newton H. Lee, R. E. '31 Back 19 180 5-11 Hughes H. Lillard, W. H. '30 Back 20 158 5-10 Tabor Ac Longnocker, T. M. '30 Quarterback 20 162 5-9 Delta H. Lyle, R. S. '29 Guard 21 190 5-10 Mercersburg Marsters, A. K. '30 Back 20 180 5-10 Exeter McDonough, B. J. '30 Quarterback 22 165 5-9 Lake Forrest Mclnnes, M. G. '30 End 23 177 5-10 Dean Nims, C. S. '31 Guard 19 178 6-2 Greenfield...
...welcome into Delta Beta...