Word: elie
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CRIMSON played its first game with an assorted band of Yalies way back in 1874, exactly one year before the initial varsity contest. Inflamed by their ingnominious 23-2 defeat, the men from Eli banded together the very next year to form the Yale paper, hoping the symbol of formal organization would help lure more agile athletes into their ranks...
...takes place on a suspension bridge, and the plot is a shoestring. A beatnik's beatnik, Harry Berlin (Alan Arkin), is poised for a suicidal leap. Up comes natty Milt Manville (Eli Wallach), who recognizes him as a onetime classmate at Poly-Arts U. They swap case histories. Harry tells a tale of existential woe that started when a fox terrier mistook his pant leg for a hydrant: "I was nauseous, sick to my soul, I became aware . . . aware of the whole rotten senseless stinking deal." Mimed in outrageously funny fashion by Alan Arkin, Harry is so sick that...
Hayley and her aunt (Joan Greenwood), vacationing at a sunny village inn, meet a spirited young English compatriot (Peter McEnery). Enter Eli Wallach, as the swarthy Greek villain who knows that Peter knows too much about a jewel theft back in London, and the plot begins to fizz. Peter turns up, with a bullet wound, in an ancient spooky crypt. Hayley skips to the rescue. Showing an appetite for danger that 007 himself might envy, she is bound and gagged in a rat-infested granary, makes a wild leap to freedom on the rotating vanes of a windmill, cracks...
This year's Eli team is no patsy, and the Crimson knows it. Coach Bruce Munro said yesterday. "They're strong. Every coach I've talked to said Yale was the toughest team he had faced...
These injuries should enable Dartmouth to key on Yale's star fullback Chuck Mercein, and should help blast big holes open in the Eli defense...