Word: elie
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crimson booters peppered Yale with innumerable shots from all over the field during the third and fourth period while a penalty kick down on the Eli goal was miraculously saved by hard working goalie Poole...
Left wing Howie Mendel starved for the Crimson by scoring both goals in the Eli mud. Yale opened up in the first period when Erikson scored on a well placed corner kick which slipped into the goal through alert Put Williams...
...heretofore undefeated Eli kept the score down in the second half by a strong wall of defense headed by goal- ie Poole who resisted all onslaughts open the Eli goal by the hard driving Crimson forward line...
Statistics show 129 yards by rushing for Yale to 72 by Harvard. The way Yale was able to gain through the line was discouraging; but the day was made to order for the lumbering Eli offense. The Pondmen were really the "pond-men." The field, first damp, became progressively soggy and saturated. The crowd was wet throughout...
Then, with the ball on Harvard's 21-yard line, third down and nine to go, tailback Foley ordered the first of the bag of tricks which the elements had necessitated keeping tied up to that point. He faked a kick, drew the whole Eli line in, and then shot a diagonal pass to Green, who was finally pulled down on the 40. A play later and "Flash" Macdonald was off on a tackle slant. Picking up speed despite the field, he went deep into enemy territory and was finally forced out on the ten-yard line...