Word: elie
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hopes of wresting a supremacy of two years standing from the Eli basketball team, the University quintet will board the train for New Haven at 10 o'clock this morning, prepared to face its opponents tonight with its strongest front. The two Freshman teams will play at 7.15 o'clock as a preliminary, and the final contest between the University teams will probably start about an hour later...
Predictions point to a breaking of the string of victories which has followed the Eli Freshmen for 19 years in their meets with the Crimson. Having handed a 14 to 13 defeat to a powerful Andover contingent, which, in turn, overcame the Blue 15 to 14, and with its undefeated season as opposed to two defeats meted out to Yale by Andover and Choate, the Crimson is a heavy favorite...
...further suggested that the quadrangle plan, since it looks like an imitation of a Harvard idea", might be repulsive to true-blue sons of Eli. To deduce, as the Herald has, that everything at Harvard is held in utter contempt at New Haven, is to disregard fact. Too many people believe that the spirit of the football field carries over to all relations between the two schools...
...much-touted Harvard one-mile relay team rose to the highest expectations in the Unicorn games Saturday night at the Arena, distancing its Blue rivals by fully 40 yards. Yale suffered its Waterloo when Charles Engle, fleetest of the Eli runners, slipped as he was passing the baton to his anchor Tuttle, who dropped the stick. It seemed, however, to the more critical among the spectators in the thinly populated Arena that the race would have borne a Crimson tinge even if Engle had made a perfect pass, for Vernon Munroe Jr. '31 ran his quarter in under 50 seconds...
...College and eligible. This crew includes the following men, two or three of whom should be ripe for service in the first boat this spring: S.W. Swaim '31, who last year stroked the University crew against Tech and Cornell but who finally wound up as bow against the Eli juniors, H.W. Sturges '30, C.E. Mason '30, J.W. Hallowell '31, M.R. Brownell '30, A.N. Webster '31, R.I. McKesson '31, and P.H. Watts...