Word: elie
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moments later Dowling led the Eli on a 93-yard march, culminating in a 19 yard touchdown pitch to 240-pound end Bruce Weinstein. The big guy caught it on the 15-yard line and literally ran through three 170-pound offensive backs on his way to the goal line...
...minutes into the second quarter an interception gave Yale the ball at the Harvard 62. The Eli took just four plays to score with fullback Calvin Hill rambling nine yards for the touchdown. Hill was brilliant on the offense and defense all day; his spectacular pass protection blocking must have had Yale's varsity quarterbacks drooling...
Harvard freshmen coach Henry Lamar has been scouting Yale for most of the year. He said one of the most striking aspects of the Eli squad has been their constant improvement, week after week. And, he noted, plaintively, after spending several weeks looking for some definite weak spots on the team, he has found none...
...CRIMSON played its first game with a ragtail band of Yalies way back in 1874, exactly one year before the initial varsity contest. Inflamed by their ignominious 23-2 defeat, the men from Eli banded together the very next year to form the Yale newspaper, hoping the symbol of formal organization would help lure more agile atheletes to their ranks...
Three minutes later the Eli line got another chance when a halfback fed the ball past the Crimson fullbacks into the left corner. Wing Joe Upton got to the ball first, out-dribbled fullback Alex Patton by turning the ball into the center, then lining it into the near corner of the goal...